More comebacks than Frank Sinatra!

Not convinced. Are these aeroplanes based at Cambridge? Doubtful, there aren't any photos I've found of them at Cambridge, just a Twin Otter at Duxford where an aircraft seems to reside at Duxford during our summer most years. I’m not referring to the aeroplanes, and not to Cambridge Airport The Br...

Don’t forget that the BAS themselves are based in Cambridge, so it makes some sense to have them nearby for equipment to be installed etc.

It’s one of four Twin Otters in the BAS fleet. I’m not sure that they are strictly ‘Duxford’s Twin Otter’, just because they make occasional visits to ARCo for maintenance in the Antarctic winter season.

It doesn’t bother me, I quite like Belgian beer. Perhaps the USAF do too?

I saw the US Demo at Sanicole and it wasn’t a patch on the Danish one. Lots of boom and zoom with gaps between passes. It was still nice to see it though, any jet demo is a bonus these days.

Two short-fuselage ones were retained by the RAF, as two long-fuselage ones were lost on operations. I suspect the ones bought by Turkey will be the 12 operational long-fuselage ones, excluding the Boscombe one which, I believe, has a funky experimental software configuration. That leaves three unso...

They were knackered by the time the RAF had finished with them. A number have had their centre wing sections replaced by Marshall, and at one point enough kits had been ordered from Lockheed to do most of the remaining examples (from memory, it was all except one aircraft that had spent much of its ...

I take it the owner is colourblind?

Or perhaps he did it for a bet?

I suspect we’ve seen the last of the Swiss and Canadian F-18 demos. With the Spanish one seemingly on hold since their crash at Zaragoza last year, next year being probably the final year for the Danish F-16 demo (if it happens at all) and a question mark over the Polish M346, we’re rapidly running ...

Interesting that they’re going to same group that have the Mosquito and Tempest II (KF Aerospace)

What a good job the Sunderland isn’t outside

The far end of the Land Warfare Hall (the D-Day section) is already closed. Sone vehicles have been removed (the Jagdpanther which was in the restoration hangar has been used to fill one of the gaps) Nothing officially has been confirmed about any vehicles going to Pima. The source of the story was ...

Well the latest defence cut announcement says they’re replacing the Puma with EC’s so the cat seems to be out of the bag! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2k0292v0w1o.amp Nope. The H145 order was announced almost a year ago, for just 6. See my earlier post. A bit of smoke and mirrors going on t...

Without the assault ships, do they now bin off the Commando Helicopter Force, give the Merlins back to the RAF, cancel NMH, and close one of Benson/Yeovilton/Culdrose/Middle Wallop?

They bought a batch of 6 civilian H145s off the shelf (not the militarised H145M variant) to replace the Pumas in Brunei and Cyprus

Not at all. The Vietnam War Flight Museum on their website and Gofundme page clearly state that the intention is to fly it. Whoever ‘Fighterman’ is, he is only repeating information from the museum themselves.

At least it didn’t get chopped, unlike the other one at Kemble.

If they think they can transport it back to the US and then rebuild it to fly, all for $100k, I do question how much serious research they have done

Good luck to the new owners of this aeroplane, better to be sold on instead of rotting at Kemble, because that would surely be its fate otherwise. New owners? Who has it been sold on to? Tell us more! I got the impression from the OP and a number of subsequent posts that the aircraft has been gifte...

Orion wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Nov 2024, 4:42 pm

Good luck to the new owners of this aeroplane, better to be sold on instead of rotting at Kemble, because that would surely be its fate otherwise.

New owners? Who has it been sold on to? Tell us more!

It seems so, yes

They are Qatari Air Force Hawks

He still has and regularly flies the Spitfire XI (up for sale), Soviet Spitfire IX and the *NotaRedTail* P-51D.

Although I believe he keeps his DA current, he hasn’t done any displays IN the last couple of seasons AFAIK

bedfordshirevulcan wrote: ↑

Tue 12 Nov 2024, 7:26 pm

Seems very limited information out their apart from air display fdd is R5 so experience on flying side will have to see about rest

I have literally no idea what most of that means. What’s an R5?