Hello all, I have these pictures I took on my mobile a few months back, they show ground to ground refuelling being carried out on a nimrod with a tristar, they were trying to replicate the conditions in which the fuel leaks occured. From what I recall no leaks were found during these tests.

That move would make sense as cosford already has the victor and vulcan so having the valiant would complete the v bomber trio.

Would certainly be an interesting video to watch, I hope somebody records it. Does anybody know what the fastest climbing prop driven aircraft is ?

Or if on a buget get a minimoto, small,fast enough(45mph) and great fun round a go kart track.

Thats gotta be a fake, air to air refuelling seems hairy enough when you are the right way up

I have only been at kinloss since the end of 2003, so I wouldve missed that but we do have a lot of cadets visit and some doing work experience(not many want to be riggers though) we share something in that xv229 was the first nimrod I fixed though it wasnt a glamorous job, being a toilet change. I call it the happy pooper jet now.

Unfortunately, or fortunately as some think, I’m not aircrew on the Nimrods but I’m an airframe tech working on the line. I should partially retract my last statement as the cadets are a good thing I suppose what with all the flying and stuff, just the marchiing and discipline bit that I hate.