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gareth1946
26th Oct 2010, 21:45
a nimrod flew from waddington today,at least there is one flying.:)
Stratofreighter
26th Oct 2010, 21:51
See
Scramble Messageboard • Information (http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=68044)
for pictures made the day before...
denachtenmai
29th Oct 2010, 16:55
Don't tell me that 51 use the op. birds for C/T:eek:, back in the 60's 70's we had 671 or 697 for Comet training, it's not as if the backenders need circuits and bumps, they'd do anything to avoid that pleasure:p
Regards, Den.
Ascot 5999
29th Oct 2010, 17:38
Den
You may also remember the 2 Hastings (one with a bar in the back) we used for detachments? TG530 and TG507 (if failing mem is correct). Possibly the only sqn with 3 distinctly different ac types: Comets, Canberras and Hastings?
When the Hastings were retired the AQM, Eddie Queen, and I spent hours searching the sqn garages for the Transport Command food trays. We eventually found them, and they still had the remains of a Transport Command salad in some of them!
Ascot
denachtenmai
31st Oct 2010, 15:01
Ascot 5999 check your PM's
Regards, Den.
Can anyone confirm whether there was a Nimrod over Prestwick today? Not close enough / clear enough to be certain. Lived near Kinloss for 10 years so no trouble ID'ing the old one!
Wander00
31st Oct 2010, 19:35
Was that IRIS, or something totally different. I remember a Hastings at Watton in the mid-60s
FantomZorbin
31st Oct 2010, 19:42
IRIS (Inspectorate of Radio Installations and Services) used to fly around in a Varsity IIRC :confused:
bobward
1st Nov 2010, 12:56
I remember seeing a Hastings in one of the hangers at RA Watton c 1966 when there on a visit with my ATC unit. They also had Varsities around as well (115 sqn?). We were given an hour ploding around the Norfolk coast in one of these old ladies.
Happy days!
:8
TorqueOfTheDevil
1st Nov 2010, 14:24
Possibly the only sqn with 3 distinctly different ac types: Comets, Canberras and Hastings?
How about 32 Sqn?
Distant Voice
1st Nov 2010, 17:01
Can someone advise me as to how long a Nimrod Major servicing took?
DV
denachtenmai
2nd Nov 2010, 09:37
Wander00.
In the mid 60's Watton still housed the E/W school and Labs, also the fitting out hangar for 51, and 360/361, so as one of 51's Hastings had a 'peculiar' role as well as being a load lugger for det's. then it is not surprising that you probably came across it there;)
Regards, Den.
Ascot 5999
2nd Nov 2010, 19:36
Torque. 32 Sqn true, but 51 did have 3 totally different ac types in the Comet, Canberra and Hastings. 32 Sqn's 3 different types are a bit more modern and thus perhaps more similar than 51s. (Won't die in a ditch tho', you are quite right.)
Ascot
Akrotiri bad boy
3rd Nov 2010, 17:12
DV
As far as I can remember from my time on the NMSU, a Nimrod major would take at least three months. That was for the standard issue MR2, a R1 would be at Kinloss for three months but would be non-op for a lot longer whilst "things" were taken out/put back in down at Wyton.