Treasury announce significant reduction in size of Nimrod Fleet....

[NutLoose]

Cost savings alone from crew size reduction and fuel burn believed to be significant, additional balloon tyres available for over water operations..........

Heeehehehehehe sorry I coudn't help myself.. Happy New Year Everyone..:p


Oh and I took the pic too :O

http://www.skonk.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=298&g2_serialNumber=1

[CirrusF]

Carlisle Airport?

Really nice little museum - well worth the visit. Even my teenage niece, with no prior interest in aviation, found it a really interesting day out.

[NutLoose]

Yup, you got it in one :D

[XV277]

Is that the only significant piece of hardware from the AEW program to survive?

[Beatriz Fontana]

Aww, the AEW! Many happy memories from Waddington in the 80s :)

[Spurlash2]

XV 277

Not so much hardware, but the radomes from the front of the aircraft were in use at Woodford golf club as rain shelters a slack handful of years ago. They may have been trimmed down, but stood about 6 feet tall and were sited at various tee positions round the course.

[TEEEJ]

Image at following link of rain shelter

http://ukga.com/images/content/image6026.JPG

Woodford Airfield Photos (http://ukga.com/airfield/woodford/photos)

Caption on the image

'In the 80's when they converted the Mk 2 Nimrod to Mk 3's they had a number of removed Mk 2 radomes not required.

I remember when i worked there that they used some on the golf course at the back of Woodford aerodrome as shelters - they are still there to this day!'

[Bertie Thruster]

Is that the only significant piece of hardware from the AEW program to survive?





http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i97/nmhsu/DSC00413.jpg


With a letter from "Boscombe Down Nimrod AEW Flight Trials Team" (Feb '84)

requesting 15 mugs be supplied with the following names;

Len, Mark, Jane, Bill, Cathy, Phil , Mo, Simon, Lewis, Robert, Robbie, Al, Bob, SWO, ADJ,

[Wensleydale]

I've still got my "Dead White Elephant" tie if that counts! Mind you, I did see a comms panel (AMRICS) for sale in the strange little electronics shop at the bottom of Steep Hill in Lincoln a few years ago, and there are one or two perspex map console overlays still in existance. (I've also got a set of FRCs hidden away somewhere including the Trevit Wheel).

[Out Of Trim]

Nice new Canon 50D huh!

Seems to be a bit missing from the nose of that cockpit section..

[Dengue_Dude]

That nose section must represent one of the most expensive museum exhibits out.

Was it in 'How Not To Do It' corner?

[thunderbird7]

That's somewhat comforting to know that the sole surviving objects from Great Britain's multi million pound Airborne Early Warning program are a mug and a rainshelter. It's the British way!:D

[tucumseh]

Just before Xmas 1986 a Xmas card circulated in MoD. It pictured a Nimrod AEW, with Santa emerging from a hatch on the tail radome with an AWACS hanging out of his sack. This was before e-mail, yet every office seemed to have one. Obviously a well organised prank but BAe weren't amused. Anyone still got one?

[KeepItTidy]

Im surprised nobody has robbed the A+B,D + E screens,they look in pretty good nick :)

Have no idea what happened to the refuelling probe though , it just looks in a real bad way , im sure a quick ADF and she will be fine :)

[Truckkie]

Wot no galley?:eek: