No I was an Engineer in the RAF on them, and did a lot of flying in them because of that.
Muscle-Manta
Glad you were not directly under the flight path, some seriously brave people to fly those out, we used to rob them blind and coudn’t believe when the RAF decided to reactivate them, we had seen the state they were in. I believe they were paid a not inconsiderable sum to ferry them on the short hop.
A lot of the problems came form the way they were stored, initially they were bagged up, but even though the Engineering Officer at the time I believe said they needed dehumidifiers in them, they were never fitted, hence they became like the Amazon rain forest inside in the summer, some had feet of water sitting around the spars, and the bags soon got torn to shreds in the UK weather compounding the issues.
Tony, I moved to Shippon on the southeast side of Abingdon airfield in ’91. As an ex FAA aircraft mechanic I took an interest in the aircraft being broken up on the airfield which included a number of AEW Nimrods, Vulcan, Phantom, Buccaneer and Canberra. I was amazed to see this VC10 in the air and ran in doors for my camera. I believe the photo below is the same aircraft (ex G-ASGG) landing at Filton.[ATTACH=CONFIG]220925[/ATTACH]Image below the last of them on the airfield which was broken up. Was this airframe too far gone for reuse?[ATTACH=CONFIG]220926[/ATTACH]
Were they robbed for the in service a/c at Brize?
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