Max Headroom Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Good news! https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/attractions/2022/03/03/classic-chinook-set-to-become-latest-exhibit-at-raf-cosford/ Quite how much of it that remains original though! Trevor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Apart from conversions to Mk2 and then Mk6 she is in her original shell. Hopefully they get her out of Odiham's main gate without mishap, as has happened to a few that have been low loaded out of there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairystick Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 That's odd. The front of BN was at Hendon when I visited in '16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 8 hours ago, hairystick said: That's odd. The front of BN was at Hendon when I visited in '16. That might be something made up to look like ZA718. We did something similar when I was on 18(B) Sqn, in that there was some sort of formal do I think at the RAF museum at Hendon and the people there wanted ZA718. Unfortunately ZA718 wa on a major servicing down at Fleetlands. So another Chinook was flown down there and some stickers were applied in the right places so that it looked from the outside as if it was ZA718(BN). These stickers were then removed when everyone had gone for the flight back to Odiham. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Jabba said: That might be something made up to look like ZA718. We did something similar when I was on 18(B) Sqn, in that there was some sort of formal do I think at the RAF museum at Hendon and the people there wanted ZA718. Unfortunately ZA718 wa on a major servicing down at Fleetlands. So another Chinook was flown down there and some stickers were applied in the right places so that it looked from the outside as if it was ZA718(BN). These stickers were then removed when everyone had gone for the flight back to Odiham. There was also an ex US Army -C nose dressed up as BN. Not sure if it’s still at Hendon. Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Hello, IMHO opinion The Survivor deserves a place in BBMF, but RAFM does not sound bad either. Cheers Jure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Jure Miljevic said: Hello, IMHO opinion The Survivor deserves a place in BBMF, but RAFM does not sound bad either. Cheers Jure Why ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Because she is the one with the most pictoresque history among RAF Chinooks. Cheers Jure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 But the Battle of Britain Memorial flight is about the 2nd world war not the Falklands !! 5 hours ago, Jure Miljevic said: Because she is the one with the most pictoresque history among RAF Chinooks. Cheers Jure That's why she's going the Cosford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Hello, tweeky Falklands, Afghanistan, Iraq, probably also other minor deployments. Besides, Chipmunk is part of BBMF, too. Cheers Jure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Jure Miljevic said: Besides, Chipmunk is part of BBMF, too. Cheers Jure That is only there to give tail wheeled aircraft training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Jure Miljevic said: Hello, tweeky Falklands, Afghanistan, Iraq, probably also other minor deployments. Besides, Chipmunk is part of BBMF, too. Cheers Jure The reason the Chipmunck is on the BBMF is for one reason only and its nothing to do with the 2nd world war, the reason for the Chipmunk is The modern day RAF have NO tail dragging aircraft (not even as a trainer) so the There two Chippy's are there to give the required training to new pilots to the BBMF and also to keep the current BBMF pilots "currant" with tail dragging A/C. One of the two Chippy's is a cold war veteran having been stationed in Berlin in aerial photography role. Mark Edited March 8, 2022 by tweeky typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Hello Mark, obviously we disagree on that question. It hardly matters as I will not get my wish. Still, I very much like Bravo November. Cheers Jure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Jure Miljevic said: Hello Mark, obviously we disagree on that question. It hardly matters as I will not get my wish. Still, I very much like Bravo November. Cheers Jure So XM607 and Humphry too Should they be part of the BBMF? If you add A/C like ZA718 to the BBMF surely this dilutes what the BBMF's is about. Its bad enough having the Lanc on the BBMF. Edited March 8, 2022 by tweeky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 21 minutes ago, tweeky said: . Its bad enough having the Lanc on the BBMF. Dakota ? In any event it’s all a bit academic when Her Majesty’s Treasury is looking to cost cut. The Sparrows and the BBMF will do well just to survive and keeping costs down while profiles up is their only route to staying off the endangered list. Either that or my £120 million lottery win can keep them afloat. Nurse the medication is wearing off again ……… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Hello, I think BBMF used to be called RAF historic flight or something similar. I wonder why that title had been changed? Cheers Jure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 All you need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainpeden Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 IIRC there were suggestions - almost certainly not official - that (in 1992) the Vulcan become part of an RAF Historical flight along with, probably, deluded ramblings that they could add a Phantom, Jaguar, Harrier and Buccaneer ala Swedish Historic Flight - if only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 At least as far as Vulcan is concerned that made sense at the time. In 1992 XH558 was flying as a part of RAF Vulcan display flight (and two other Vulcan bombers had been kept in high-speed taxi condition) eight years after the type had been retired from regular service. Cheers Jure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 On 08/03/2022 at 10:44, tweeky said: to keep the current BBMF pilots "currant" with tail dragging A/C. Is there a "raisin" for that? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 On 3/8/2022 at 1:23 PM, tweeky said: So XM607 and Humphry too Should they be part of the BBMF? If you add A/C like ZA718 to the BBMF surely this dilutes what the BBMF's is about. Its bad enough having the Lanc on the BBMF. Cant help but notice you are holding on a bit tight 😀...all this jibber jabbar doesnt really matter it was a innocent harmless idea by someone who presumably speaks Serbo Croat as a first language...besides if you are going to be picky Humphrey is a Mk3 Wessex and is in the Fleet air arm museum....not that I'm a fan of FAAM but that is where it belongs which of course is your point about BN ....only you could have put it a bit more politely....maybe I've misread your drip in which case apologises 😘 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Shame that BN isn`t filling the gap made by the Merlin leaving Hendon and joining the other helicopters in that corner of the hangar. Hopefully it is just going to Cosford for some TLC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Just heard from a friend at Odiham that she is now on her way to Cosford. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 A bit about her arrival at Cosford here:- https://uk.airfix.com/community/blog-and-news/aerodrome/famous-falklands-chinook-preserved-raf-museum-cosford?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=First+look+at+the+newly+tooled+Buccaneer+test+frames&utm_campaign=Airfix-+workbench-+week+1+2022%2F23 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted April 1, 2022 Author Share Posted April 1, 2022 Her cockpit appears to be gutted and the engines are also absent. No doubt, time expired components will be fitted in due course. Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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