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by Blue_2
Tue 26 Mar 2024, 4:43 pm
Forum: UK Airshow Review News
Topic: The UK Airshow Review Podcast
Replies: 125
Views: 53917

Re: The UK Airshow Review Podcast

A good listen. Made the drag up the M5 pass much more pleasantly than usual!
by Blue_2
Fri 22 Mar 2024, 7:42 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

As they say in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, "them's more like guidelines"!
by Blue_2
Thu 21 Mar 2024, 6:04 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

What you're not taking into account is the amount of the glass' content we had already supped between bar and table Tony! The landlord is scrupulous when it comes to not serving short measures. Hoping to get on with sorting the new spares into the stash this weekend. Got visitors coming though, so i...
by Blue_2
Thu 21 Mar 2024, 2:51 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Cheers gents! Looks like I'll have to bring a slack handful of zaps to the 'jumble and to cockpitfest...
by Blue_2
Wed 20 Mar 2024, 8:46 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

20/03/2024 Update.... ...sort of. Saturday was YAM's first Thunder Day event of the year. While we weren't participating as a replacement air starter for the Buccaneer which we now normally crew running days for had not been sourced in time, our good friend Mike Davey had brought his Cheetah engine ...
by Blue_2
Thu 14 Mar 2024, 6:37 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

We don't need to hide the jaffas in ammo bays. They are hidden in plain sight on the spares shelves!
by Blue_2
Tue 12 Mar 2024, 6:47 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

It has to soon; the tachograph says so!
by Blue_2
Tue 12 Mar 2024, 5:29 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: Shackleton WR963 - [Official Topic]
Replies: 506
Views: 291359

Re: Shackleton WR963 - [Official Topic]

A little update from the Northern contingent of the WR963 collective! As you'll hopefully have seen previously, the nose section of Shackleton MR.1/T.4 VP293 "Zebedee" which previously lodged with '63 at Coventry made its way to YAM a couple of months ago, the first large piece of Shack to...
by Blue_2
Tue 12 Mar 2024, 5:04 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

12/03/2024 Update Don't get excited chaps, as it's really more of a non-update. Work have got me run absolutely ragged just now and, by the time Saturday rolls around, my get up and go has truly got up and buggered off! I went in on Saturday but really didn't feel like doing a great deal. This said,...
by Blue_2
Thu 07 Mar 2024, 12:41 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: Blackburn Beverley anyone?
Replies: 117
Views: 25225

Re: Blackburn Beverley anyone?

This, and our recent crowd funder for moving WR963 (which, shameless plug, is still running!) shows what can be achieved even in these interesting times if you go about it the right way!
by Blue_2
Wed 06 Mar 2024, 8:04 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

I'm hoping our anniversary 'do' in July will be a chance for more of the Meteor Boys to reacquaint themselves with the type and share their stories!
by Blue_2
Tue 05 Mar 2024, 3:35 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Cheers Chris!
by Blue_2
Mon 04 Mar 2024, 5:29 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

04/03/2024 Update Sorry if this update is again a tad rushed, but my rations of hours in the day and days in the week are currently running very low! I popped in briefly on Friday after work, and this picture more or less summed up my prediction for the weekend's weather https://i.imgur.com/WoEDCUY....
by Blue_2
Sat 02 Mar 2024, 9:10 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

When I was supplying gen for the kit, Sword did suggest a second release of the kit would include NF(T) parts and colours. If you look at the transparency sprue it already includes both style windscreens..!
by Blue_2
Wed 28 Feb 2024, 7:33 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

TT, just wait until that front end is on and the stripes are completed! Tony, yes all the NF(T).14's started life as NF's. Then a lucky dozen or so were converted to Nav trainers and given a second lease of life. If someone wants to do a modellers book, I've got the pics! Of course way on the back b...
by Blue_2
Wed 28 Feb 2024, 11:17 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Cheers Zac! I like to catch and share something different to the usual aircraft shots.
by Blue_2
Tue 27 Feb 2024, 9:09 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

27/02/2024 Update Again as I'm being kept rushed off my feet with work, this is a bit of a late one, but hey ho, here it is. It's now 8pm, I've just walked in after the drive back from Dorset (where I'm off back to tomorrow...) to Yorkshire and got clean and chucked dinner in to cook, opened a beer,...
by Blue_2
Sun 25 Feb 2024, 2:22 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Glad you enjoyed your visit Nige, and thanks for the kind words. I suppose being so close to the jet and the project we don't always appreciate the bigger picture...
Speaking of pictures, not sharing the one of you playing Hangar Pilots in 788 old chap...?!
by Blue_2
Thu 22 Feb 2024, 6:00 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Pretty sure you or someone else asked this one before Tony! I have an overall "wish list" in my head of what I'd like achieved over the next few months/year or so. Week on week it depends what has already been done, what jobs are part done and needs to continue, who is in and what their sk...
by Blue_2
Wed 21 Feb 2024, 8:58 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Cheers Pete. We're starting to feel that there's light at the end of the tunnel! If the temperatures stay reasonable it'll be paint rather than wiring this weekend though, just for a change. The wire strippers and meter can stay firmly IN the toolbox for once!
by Blue_2
Tue 20 Feb 2024, 10:20 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

This might be a bit of a rushed update as work have got me rushed off my feet just now, but... 20/02/2024 Update After last weekend's fun, for various reasons this weekend was a 2 day event. On the Saturday Keiran and I were in. Keiran is a relatively new recruit; those of you who do nightshoots may...
by Blue_2
Sun 18 Feb 2024, 7:34 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Lovely Chippy cockpit shot! I can hear, feel and smell it! Thanks for sharing it with us Archer.
by Blue_2
Fri 16 Feb 2024, 6:42 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Laurence, glad to have you back with us! Tony, that lid is in great condition. We haven't forgotten about 640, just concentrating on pushing ahead with 788 right now. Her time will come! Zac, a number of the stickers will probably have to find their way to NZ for persons out there; I'm sure another ...
by Blue_2
Thu 15 Feb 2024, 6:26 am
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Pete, there's always bloody something to do!
Chris, when they rock up one will be kept aside.
by Blue_2
Wed 14 Feb 2024, 7:26 pm
Forum: Historic Aviation
Topic: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project
Replies: 1360
Views: 614787

Re: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Project

Cheers TT! Wondered if anyone was paying attention out there!