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BBMF is still Service manned to my understanding, and treated as any other RAF Sqaudron, all be it flying rather special aircraft.
RNHF has come more under the wing of the FAA due to Airworthiness regs but is very definately not an RN squadron.
The team do a superb job given that they work with unique aircraft with unique supply and support issues and limited funding as a Charity organisation.
What point are you trying to make pr00ne?? If you've got a stack of spares for historic aircraft, or a bespoke workshop, then I'm sure the RNHF would love to hear from you.
RNHF has come more under the wing of the FAA due to Airworthiness regs but is very definately not an RN squadron.
The team do a superb job given that they work with unique aircraft with unique supply and support issues and limited funding as a Charity organisation.
What point are you trying to make pr00ne?? If you've got a stack of spares for historic aircraft, or a bespoke workshop, then I'm sure the RNHF would love to hear from you.
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All fair comments, I've just got my doubts from what I saw in the past at Yeovilton. Always seemed a small section, struggling for money to keep it all going. For such a small number of vintage aircraft, I just think back and think look what happened to them all. With the Vixen its a what, 50 year old aircraft? With the corresponding technology and safety systems from that era but now being applied and pushed into the modern entertainment industry (for that's its job now).
Yes each to his own form of being entertained but I'm always happier to see these aircraft parked up in a museum retired, if I'm truthful.
Even that Wasp came a cropper at Yeovilton a couple of years back, didn't it? I've got a picture of it on my laptop right here. (Did they try to keep that quiet?)
Anyway, enough about all this from me. Good luck with it all anyway.
Yes each to his own form of being entertained but I'm always happier to see these aircraft parked up in a museum retired, if I'm truthful.
Even that Wasp came a cropper at Yeovilton a couple of years back, didn't it? I've got a picture of it on my laptop right here. (Did they try to keep that quiet?)
Anyway, enough about all this from me. Good luck with it all anyway.
G-CVIX (XP924) is a hybrid aircraft.
It is an FAW2 converted to a D3 and then partially converted back to an FAW2.
The wiring is a nightmare to follow, especially when the Flight Refueling manuals specific to XP924 are not the same as what is fitted to the aircraft!!
CC
It is an FAW2 converted to a D3 and then partially converted back to an FAW2.
The wiring is a nightmare to follow, especially when the Flight Refueling manuals specific to XP924 are not the same as what is fitted to the aircraft!!
CC
