Scrapyard photo’s, any more?

Cees,

The front screen frame is Barracuda, to my best judgement at the time, and from the Warrington scrap yard in 1973.

The Blackburn Firebrand was at Carlisle some seven years earlier and not my photograph.

Mark

Mark, I agree that the frame is from a Barracuda : confirming this without a doubt, are the small circular cut- outs either side. They would have been glazed , but in such a position that to look out of them wouldn’t have been possible, seems that their sole function would have been to let daylight into otherwise gloomy corners under the cockpit coaming.
Cheers, Brian

Mark12 holiday snap

Thanks Mark, for the courtesy and the reasoned explanation in your reply – point taken ; I didn’t mean to come over as a grouch but I’ve seen the loss of too many pilots and aircraft over more years than I now care to recall.
Neither do I wish to open any further discussion on the merits or de-merits of warbird display, the subject has been well thrashed out elsewhere. To the sideswipers with the less than pleasant undertones in their postings…that’s my viewpoint, sorry if it doesn’t happen to coincide with yours!

..Overheard at airshow

…neither stupid, nor ignorant, but my son and I were at a Mildenhall Airshow in the late ’70’s, and it was the first time we’d seen the SR 71 Blackbird close up and personal, and as fascinated as I was watching the Blackbird I was distracted by a youngster, around four, I would guess,standing in front of us on the crowdline with his father, obviously one of the base personnel, by his appearance. Completely oblivious to the aircraft and the noise surrounding us, the youngster started to howl; his father asked, rather anxiously ‘What’s up son?’
to which the youngster held up his (now empty) hands) where he had been carefully cradling a seven-spotted Ladybird, which had decided it had had enough and took off vertically into the sunshine, and the kid said,through tears ‘Gee Poppa, I just lost my.. l-l-ladybug….’

….on another occasion, on one of the arrival days at the above base (when you could actually park by the runway approach without being surrounded by thousands and about the same numbers of police and traffic wardens!!), so you can tell I go back a bit!, we were tuned into the tower frequency on the old Bush transistor with an air band channel as the Swordfish waddled in on long finals and contacted the tower, …’say again your type Sir? enquired the tower..in the ever-polite American voice……’Err…um Swordfish,three people on board…’Roger that Sir, clear to land,)…he gave the pilot wind and runway details and concluded, ‘…. check gear is down and locked, Sir’….and I swear there was not a hint of irony in the controllers voice…(probably one of the first times that LS326 had ventured up to the ‘hall.) To his credit the Swordfish pilot replied, also with no hint of sarcasm, ‘Thank you, I confirm three greens’… Sigh,… happy days!

.there you guys go again! Before I get a chance to reply you’ve ‘enhanced’ the photo….I’m just too slo-o-o-w-w-w!! Looks like the serial’s on the rear fuselage though…any chance of a little more tweaking?

Can you help id this aircraft.

…Wondered where you guys were! by the time I’d checked and edited my grammar you’d replied…oh well, I’ll get back to sleep again!… 😉

Sea Vixen, F4’s, Buccs, Gannets etc

…agreed also whalebone, good to see these hitherto -unseen photos, and commendable of the chap to share them unselfishly.
Not sure that the detrimental comments by WebPilot are in keeping with the standards of this forum. Sometimes one’s first thoughts are better left unsaid ; the creator of the website has obviously taken time and effort to put the website together.
‘Horrible’ is unnecessary and what’s ‘gack’ for goodness’ sake! Some sort of Geek-speak? …there, not good to be criticised is it? Still, I suppose if you can dish it out….. :rolleyes:

Hawker Hunter ‘blue note’.

My apologies, scrub out ‘noise’ and replace with ‘exotic sound’….