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October 18, 2010 at 9:20 pm in reply to: Enstone Bits And Pieces #1104128

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Few years ago there was a complete Anson in one of the hangars. Don’t know what happened to it. A friend of mine has a plane there.

That Anson was WD413/G-BFIR which was stored there for a while, before joining the Atlantique Classic Flight as G-VROE and is currently one of only two airworthy Ansons in the world.

October 18, 2010 at 9:01 pm in reply to: Superfuellers #1104191

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Great models, love cardboard as an alternative to plastic, but 4 cm is a bit small! Is the Vanguard in cardboard? 😀

The Vanguard is an Aeroclassics 1/400 diecast metal model, which is 4″ long.

October 13, 2010 at 12:45 am in reply to: 56 Sqn "Checkerboard" tail Lightnings? #1110390

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Scanned some slides in my archives for you. First is at Wattisham in June’65 with the first three being XP743/G, XP744/H and XR721/F

Next up, a nice line abreast with XR718/C nearest.

Finally, XR718/C on its own.

October 10, 2010 at 6:45 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1112855

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Apparently ‘located in Cambridgeshire’ is this, should anyone want one in their back garden. So whose going to alert the Cold War Museum at Cosford??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TU-95-BEAR-COMPLETE-/300471828159

October 8, 2010 at 11:16 am in reply to: Superfuellers #1115210

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As per my post #19, my friend has now finished these models – but can you believe that (a) they are made in card and (b) they are to 1/400 scale, making them about 4cm long!

October 7, 2010 at 12:19 pm in reply to: "In The Red" BCAL 707 Into RAF..??? #1116630

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Boscombe Down ?

I was thinking that also, depending on what time of day/night it occurred, as Boscombe is a 5 day/9-5 station. Couldn’t have been Lyneham as that’s also
a Master Diversion Airfield and I was there between 1971-74 and we never saw a BCAL 707 there.

September 29, 2010 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Mosquito scrapping photos #1125798

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Reminds me of crawling all over the wrecks of the three 3 CAACU Mossies at Thruxton on the early 60s.

September 28, 2010 at 2:27 pm in reply to: Free Airshows at Duxford.. #1128359

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£375,000 for a ‘renovation opportunity’ – they’re having a laugh! :rolleyes:

September 20, 2010 at 12:10 pm in reply to: BBC. One you either missed or saw. The McGregor BoB programme thread #1140641

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****** all, but I haven’t seen many other celebrities putting in much of an effort.

..apart from David Jason :rolleyes:

September 17, 2010 at 11:38 am in reply to: Which Beatles Pan Am 707? #1143966

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http://www.itnsource.com/compilations/entertainment/celebrity/?lr=S16110603
Clip 77
“Jet Clipper Beatles” was applied on landing at Heathrow

Thank, but that clip does not indicate that. Attached is a still from British Pathe’s newsreel that shows it was 707-331 N704PA used both ways as it is is seen here taxying in at Heathrow with the sticker already on.
A response from the Pan Am Society website has since advised that the sticker was applied in New york and survived the trans-atlantic flight. Don’t you just love this trivia?:rolleyes:

July 19, 2010 at 10:51 pm in reply to: RIAT 2010 Both days #546543

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If these are taken on both days, where are the sunny shots from Saturday and did you reshoot all the warbirds after the covers were taken off?

July 5, 2010 at 11:19 pm in reply to: Has The Queen ever been to Duxford ? #1089811

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The Queen Mother went at least once, in the summer of 1985 I think. The occasion was an anniversary review of the RAF.

Got some pictures somewhere; BBMF, the Vintage Pair, Queen’s Flight Wessex, Tornado F1 and GR3, Harrier GR3. The usual suspects for the period.

Regards

Here’s my shot of the Queen Mother at Duxford on 6th July 1985

July 2, 2010 at 11:33 am in reply to: Meteors 'found' in Syria #1094128

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I don’t mourn the loss one bit. We have seen alot of aircraft leave the country for pastures new. Winston has gone to a sunny warm possibly dry climate to remain in the air and hoprfully it will do for a long time to come. If it had been bought in the UK it would have more likely remained groundbound.

Not if Mike Collett at Coventry bought it! It could have been flying with Classic Flight! I can still mourn the loss from our skies, can’t I? It may well be looked after ‘down under’ but that doesn’t make me feel any better if I can’t see it flying!

July 1, 2010 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Meteors 'found' in Syria #1095663

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I can only count twelve Meteors on the North side of the main runway and only one on the south side (fire dump)

Two of the Meteors appear to be long nose NF variants..

Yes, those definately look like NF.13s. Well we’ve got an NF.14 at Cosford and NF.11 G-LOSM still airworthy, so we’ll tell the Syrians they can keep those as long as we can have an F8 to get airworthy. :rolleyes:
I still morn the loss of F.8 VZ467 “Winston” sold to Oz! 😡

July 1, 2010 at 11:02 am in reply to: Meteors 'found' in Syria #1096222

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I counted sixteen.

N36 11.22 E037 34.31

Mk 8’s?

These would definately be Mk.8’s, which were involved in the Suez crisis of 1956 with one of them successfully intercepting an RAF PR Canberra on the 6th November. In service they were Camouflaged in brown and green with a light gray undersurface. Not quite sure how we get sixteen, as Syria had 12 Mk.8s and 2 T.7s (total 14).
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