Bump!!

The reason?:confused:

It’s won races before.

They’d won a race before (in Honda’s modern guise from its BAR years onwards).:D

I suspect it’s talking about some basic sort of mission profile; a high level transit, dropping in to low level to attack a simulated target, then RTB at high level (still part of the Tucano syllabus today).:)

Looking at yesterday’s thread, relating to fatigue, any sortie involving low level will have a higher fatigue usage than (for example here) the same route flown at several thousand feet, and IIRC will be recorded as such in the F700.

Regarding the last remaining airworthy Belfast, I once had the idea for the RAF Tranport Museum located near Brize Norton to house:

1 Belfast (last airworthy example) FLOWN IN
2 VC10 (original No.10 Squadron example) FLOWN IN
3 Tristar FLOWN IN
4 Britannia (Kemble)
5 Comet (Lynham)
6 DC3 (Lynham)
7 C130 (Lynham) FLOWN IN
8 Andover (Former QF – currently located in Africa) FLOWN IN
9 DH4a (replica)
10 Devon
11 Twin Pioneer (Coventry Spare)
12 Pembroke
13 Whirlwind
14 Sycamore

All contained in a 300ft x 300ft ASDA/Tesco style shed and run by volunteers (from Brize Norton). Not actually built on MoD land because there isn’t the room and the paper work involved (Whitehall) would be a nightmare.

Nice bit of land just north of the airfield across the road, reasonably easy access from the M40/A34/A40. They could even build a Waddington style viewing enclosure. It’d never catch on though.

A VC10 will preserved at Cosford, but I’ve no idea if it’ll be an original C1K, or war veteran AAR K3 (I susepct the former, and the recent FlyPast article strongly implied there will only be one RAF VC10 preserved, which is a shame). A new collection would allow the preservation of both.

Off course nothing will happen. Nothing ever does. The Comet (if it isn’t scrapped) will probably go to the DH Heritage Centre, while the DC3 will be moved to BN. The Belfast will probably remain in OZ when she is retired. The other aircraft are available apart from the Britannia, which might one day find shelter in one of Kemble’s hangars.

Sadly very true.

Oh dear , I was so looking forward to my first visit next month , I have 9 days in the UK . Hendon , Bruntingthorpe , Duxford , Old Warden , and some rellies wedding in Cumbria .

What I will say is don’t let this thread put you off. If you haven’t been before, and/or are visiting from abroad, it is still worth visiting for the aircraft on show. What I would advise is checking on the opening times of the various hangars during the day you intend to visit, or make it an all day visit. 🙂

I’d say so – and I’m with you on a fee as well, without “seeing the books” and of course being totally unqualified to comment !:diablo:

No one would pay to get in nowadays though seeing as there’s a fair chance 50% of the museum will be closed. Catch 22!

Dismantle EVERYTHING and make a new museum in the center of London – enlarged to take in civil airliners (Heathrow’s Concorde and Duxford’s VC10, etc). 😀 :diablo:

Why move Duxford’s VC10? More will be “available” (or should be) in the not too distant future.:)

[dream on] Maybe they should shut Hendon, and move to Bicester, establishing a living history museum and preserving that complete site, rather than the historic, but now entirely encroached on by modern London site at Hendon. Use the hangarage there and technical site there, and build new space outside the confines of the 1930s site.[/dream off]

Either way, with the fact that some time in the future there will be several new airframes requiring a home, maybe it’s time for a new site? With the impending retirement of aircraft such as the C130K, the VC10, and the state of the Comet on the gate at Lyneham, maybe it’s time for a Museum of RAF Air Transport at a suitable location.