Tornado 01

Result... !

Fingers crossed this works.

Cheers Timmas I will have a look Tim

I'm not paying for a photo hosting website, and linking from the One Drive on my PC seems to be fun.... If anyone wants to see them, message me and we can do it the old fashioned way (email)

That didn't work either

Alas I can't figure out the photo uploads tonight

Aerospace also did the quarterly production World Air Power Journal Wings of Fame In the early 1990s (while I worked for them first time 1991-1999) they bought the aviation photo collections from Pilot Press and John WR Taylor (then former editor of Janes All the Worlds Aircraft). And had an ex British Aerospace gentleman in (part time) to combine it with our archive. It took about 5 years. Alas several weeks away from completion in 2001. A water main burst around the corner closing a main road. The photo collection and one office were on the ground floor..... And were almost waist deep in water within 10 minutes... Second time I worked for them when they tried to return the archive to normal, the true destruction was there for me to see 😞

Later on today I will attempt to post some further reference shots, that I have. I also saved the paper reference file from my former employer at Aerospace Publishing. For those that don't know... They started by doing books in the early 1980s, and then went onto doing weekly aviation partworks : The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aircraft Warplane War Machine Take Off and a slightly re-issue of IEA (as Airplane) They also did foreign editions and a series of large format Aircraft info cards

Rich G, David Walton and (I believe, his sons?) are still aiming to build something museum wise. Alas Cox Automotive, the car storage company that leased the site from the entire Walton family didn't want anything to do with the aviation side, nor did they want them on their patch. I may not be fully accurate here but DW still has plans/is interested. However the proof he still wanted something staying, was the clearance of land where the Lightnings and the Q shed owned by my mates at LPG are with some of the other remaining smaller jets Canberra Meteor etc. Some of the other bigger stuff was sadly down to what ended up in a legal spat, which resulted in the end of the VC10s etc.... I ain't party to all that either. Hope that attempts to answer your question

Now I know Humbrol does dayglo in a tin, the possibilities are endless...As opposed to covering Everything with the Halfords Florescent Orange...

I have not been on BM as much as I would like, but glad to see your still doing bits to the Canberra fleet T

Looking forward to seeing this one getting to the finish line. Meanwhile a trip up the road is on the cards soon... I now live near Radlett

A minor point on your Lightning, If your doing an F.3 (It had a flat top fin) of 111 Sqn you will have to amend the serial as XM186 was an F.1A. The joys of growing up with a Lightning base near me. T1

Some cracking design work on the main wheel bays. It certainly makes it look the part

Looking forward to seeing the ongoing results

There is one privately owned in a field near the end of the runway at Bristol airport

An excellent build of one of Hawkers finest. Also It will go very well as a tribute to folks that took part in the Bush wars. Sadly the y tend to get forgotten all to often these days. Any photos of it next to the real airframe ? Tim

I might be a tad out of touch, but from memory the Phantom FGR.2s XV393 - 398 were also twin stick

Did I miss the RFI in the couple of months I was minus a working PC ?

Not there when I saw it on the main burning pan, I assume that they burnt it art some point after my visit post 1992. Although reports from there were few and far between in the days before the internet spotters networks got going

If I hadn't mentioned it before, yep that is me standing on the ladder of 657 in December 81, a month before it was retired to Manston and survived till about 1991ish They originally dug a hole and lowered its nose leg in, to simulate a large aircraft undercarriage collapse. When I finally got a trip organised to see it in 1992 ish they had already torched it. XL386 was still there alas it had a large square area cut out of the nose to do aircrew rescue the easier way from memory K.2 XJ825 at Waddington was chopped up in early 1992 also from memory Tim

Looking good. Now I have some form of working laptop I will have a look at your list of Vulcans at some point Tim

Very nice

I forget which film it was in... But a quote of.... Big Isn't it !! Springs to mind....

Hope you get better soon and make a speedy recovery.