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Until I dig out my F84 pictures have a look at Thunderstreaks.com. Some of these were taken by myself along with several other spotters all at the same point. This is a very good site if you like F84s.

Give me a few days to sort them out and I’ll get them to you Ian

I’ve just read the above regarding the F84Fs with interest. As a spotter at Prestwick in the early sixties I saw all of the survivors returning to the US. I have several photos of these if you’re interested in seeing them The F86H aircraft also returned home through Prestwick and I have some photos of them as well. The most interesting part of the operation was the support aircraft, C45s,C123s,C54s,C119s,T33s and C47s Always like you Sabre stories as we had 100s stored and scrapped at SAL. regards Ian

I would agree with the above, companies have to keep records of their transactions so why not the website. While I do appreciate the work that goes into maintaining it, in the words of most politicians it needs to be transparent.

That is true, but there is more than one photo of this aircraft.

The triangle should have the Squadron badge in the centre. Cheers Ian

The fin is indeed silver,I have since corrected the model. I contacted the 610 Sqdn association and they very kindly sent me some photo's of various Meteor schemes used by the squadron Unfortunately I do not have permission to show them here. The model was posted before I had corrected it. Ian

Hi Folks Another F86D,this time finished as the CO's aircraft from the 4th FIS based at Misawa in Japan Decals from Cutting Edge,painted with various shades of Xtracolor HSS. Ian

Thank you, my father always said it flew very nicely and was the perfect introduction for basic training. I believe it is a bit difficult to get into a spin with it, not always conducive to teaching pupils spin recovery.

Yes,Planet Models resin kit very easy to build and finish.

Here is mine so far, not much of a struggle to build.

The point I was trying to make is that the RAF has history of breaking up aircraft with plenty of flying hours left on the airframe. This of course solves the problem of buying the required spares to maintain the fleet, which has happened many times in the past. On visits to the MU's in years gone by there were plenty on aircraft sitting in the hangers with a list of parts removed, some of these lists ran to two and three pages, effectively RTP. So the question still remains why break up a good aircraft costing around £65 million to recover maybe around £8-£10 million at most.

It may have been more logical to use these for lead in training before pilots flew the newer aircraft. It would also have kept the hours down on the more recent ones. However the people who run these things have never been logical. Easy when it's not their money, only £65 million or so each.

I went with Post Office Red for mine, having seen the actual aircraft a long time ago I thought it was the nearest colour. Friend of mine who was on the base also conformed PO red as the colour. If you want to make the model a bit more interesting two of these flew with naval codes and retained the red paint after the team disbanded. If you are interested I have the serial numbers and codes somewhere. Ian