Yes, there’s a lovely sense of getting something for nothing when you find a part or bit of wood that is exactly what you’re looking for in the spares box.
I keep the plastic lids from aerosols because I’m sure that one of them will fit as a cowling in a later build!:o

Jeff

C 118 Khormaksar, Aden 1960-’61

Jeff.

Pagan01 I just e-mailed you.

I thought the Varsity was disassembled and taken away to safety.

Hi Jeff nice picture, the ‘Jambia’ Arabian knife symbol was used by 8 sqn on their Hawker Hunters which were Khormaksar based at the time. Coincidently the same symbol was worn on the nose Shackleton AEW.2s when 8 sqn converted to the type from 1971 at Kinloss.
I’m guessing that it is a 37 sqn Shackleton in the pic as they were based there at the time, they didn’t wear a stylised vesion of their crest, but maybe an aircraft was ‘zapped’ by 8 sqn?

Thanks pagen01, I have the impression of all the Shacks’ wearing the ‘Jambia’ ( I could’nt for the life of me remember what that was called) but it was a VERY long time ago! 37 Sqn. does sound right. I do recal a time when they bombed some place out in Yemen that were harbouring dissident tribesmen, I think they had killed some S.A.S. guys and left them near the camp.
In those days us kids could happily walk amongst the aircraft and nose about without being challenged! Happy days.

Jeff

I can remember an Argosy parked at Exeter airport in the 1980’s, was that broken up there?

Jeff

Flytst,
I do’nt know of the Frome scrapyard, (I live just outside of Glastonbury) but I do remember there being a lot of engines (Centaurus?) and other aircraft remains in Frome railway goods yard in the late ’60’s/ very early ’70’s. I think it was on the edge of town going out to Westbury?
I was a lorry boy for Showerings/Babycham then and would have happily spent all day rumaging through that lot, but the drivers had no soul and needed to get on with other deliveries!
I can also remember a complete Swift in a scrap yard between Congresbury and Weston -Super-Mare (Bristol road) in the early ’70’s. From what I can recal it was in nice condition and on its undercarriage when I tried to have a look in the cockpit and was asked if I’d mind going away, or words to that effect by the owner!

Jeff

Unknown Lincoln

I’ve posted this elsewhere, and on other sites, but no one can identify the aircraft or location, though it could be middle east late ’40’s early 50’s. It was amongst old photos’ of my fathers time in Malaya 1951.

Anyone got an idea?

Jeff