OK I knew trying to be a smart ar@e on the engine type would catch me out :p
I was just that excited to see him come out of some whispy cloud, into the sunshine and blue sky, and hear that throaty v12 singing away I thought ‘thats too meaty for a merlin’ How wrong was I.:o

Blue Robin – sorry but the PA28 doesn’t have quite the same Cache….:diablo:

I only moved down to Gaydon a couple of months ago, from Whitley. I have to say the quality of overflights are somewhat more exciting than those at Coventry. Although I was glad to spy the red/black Dak making her lazy way back to Covenrty last week too.

The Balliol has no identifying marks other than the fact that it is a T2. All of them belong to the same (very) private owner of Swift WK198. It is heavilly corroded and moving it is not something we will risk doing at this stage without absolute authority of the owner.

Your Balliol is WN516

Wow 😮

Not been aware of how much was in this collection before, a simply staggering amount of rare airframes and equpment.

Thanks to those who posted the links.

WL801

Incidently, looking in one Shackleton book I own, it turns out that Cosford DID have another Shack before they had AEW.2 WR960. According to Barry Jones book, Cosford had MR.2 WL801 in storage until 1991 before it was scrapped. I think that was a mistype, and should be 1981, but then again, something else to slip through the fingers….

Completely forgot about this one, looking through some old Wrecks & Relics, it was listed as formally part of the Cosford Aerospace Collection until 1984 when it was transferred back to 2 SoTT (from whence it came) It was soon tendered for disposal and scrapped early 1985 😮

With a record of letting two previous ‘preserved’ examples slip through their fingers one has to wonder what would have become of WR960 had not Manchester offered it a home.

Meteor F3, allocated to Power Jets Ltd, for reheat trials with Derwents fitted. The Edward Shacklady book (The Gloster Meteor) has far more details of the trials themselves.

The Steve Bond book (Meteor-Gloster’s First jet Fighter) has the following details:
w/o: 21/07/1945 during display for Power Jets at Whetstone, the test pilot P.J.Moffet was killed.

HTH

Serial Confusion

After some digging through a number of reference sources and talking to my fellow database updaters, we have come to the conclusion the reference to WH872 being in Kilmarnock is an error.
At some point during the database construction the identity of the Canberra cockpit with the ATC was missrepresented as WH872, then when the work on the WJ serial batch was done at a seperate time, it was correctly described to WJ872, hence both subsequently ended up on the database.
Apologies for the confusion 😮 and thanks for spotting the error, I guess when you are dealling with over 36,000 individual entries across three websites one or two do creep in !

As a side point can anyone confirm if WJ872 was indeed scrapped by the ATC in 2002 / 2003. I’d love to finally put that to bed as well !

Regards

Jetstreams

Looking on google Earth I noticed that Spurr’s yard at South scarle had a couple of Dominie fueslages(no sign of the wings & tail feathers).Does anyone know if they are still there?

Not Domine’s but Jetstream T1’s, broken up at Cranwell when the type was retired from RAF service.
They were XX493 and XX498, delivered to his yard 24/05/2004 and have since been ‘reduced to produce’

Provosts Westonzoyland

Whereabouts? I haven’t seen anything out there when I’ve visited. I take it they were statics only?

Lee see this thread:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17130&page=3&highlight=westonzoyland