Newark Air Museum News 2022

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Undercarriage repairs required - the story of the life of many MR.3 Shackletons.
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Low flying Chinooks from earlier this evening!

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Vulcan progress update from earlier this afternoon!

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Brief mention associated with a forumite in the Cockpit-Fest banter - oh for an edit function on Twitter - "springing"!

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We're looking forward to it. Zebedee hasn't been out in a while!
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Zebedee was last at Newark in September 2018 for the launch of the first Shackleton Boys book and it will be nice to have you all back on site again; but let's not forget a certain Lincoln instrument panel!!
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Wondering if I can get the little known Lincoln jaffa cake dispenser mod fitted in time...!
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We'll await your progress with great interest - does it have a mod number?
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It will have...! :wink:
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That's good to hear the data plate police are normally out in force at Cockpit-Fest!
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Revised event programme for the second half of 2022 announced:

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Website update for Cockpit-Fest & Aeroboot:

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Vulcan repaint update:

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One last bump before the weekend!

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Car packed. See you tomorrow!
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Sounds good to me!!
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Lots of familiar faces but sorry I had to leave site so early - have a great time!!

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Thanks to the team at Newark for a fantastic, smoothly run event (at least it looked it from our perspective!) which it was a genuine pleasure to attend.
Howard, sorry to have not seen you, hope you're on the mend!
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Thanks for that I did see you arrive, just before I departed having passed over some paperwork etc. in the wide open spaces of the Southfield Site.

I understand that you're a winner & get mentioned in the listing that's now on the museum website (link below); well done!

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Indeed, pleasant surprise that made the graft well worth it!
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Once again, well done - in normal circumstances I'd have been included in the discussions about the awarding of the prizes; I'll try and catch up with KE sometime and get some 'gossip'!
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Well Colin did an admirable job deputising; I suspect he's still lying down in a darkened room attempting to recover though!
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To be honest it's really Colin's show, I just operate the 'hamster wheel' in the background trying to keep the lights on - disappointing to not see the vent through.

Colin had recovered sufficiently to be back on site for yesterday's arrivals; still waiting for an official sign-off for the Rapier News Release!! :innocent:

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News details about the Rapier system have now been released:

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Fund raising boost thanks to BARG

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