Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
This got tweeted by a professor at Cranfield the other day, and is also up on the wall of the social club by the bar.
I have absolutely no idea what Cranfield were doing with a Swift - presumably some time in the 1960s, but hopefully it was worthwhile. It would be fair to say that compared to the current fleet of a 146, two Jetstreams, a Bulldog and a T67 - whilst it's nice that the aeroplanes remain British made, things have been more exciting in the past!
G
With its dark colouring, maybe the Swift is the one used for 'wet runway' tests at various airfields in the '60s. It was painted dark blue.
As an aside, they tried a wet runway trial at Farnborough in the late 60s or early 70s using a Scimitar with its outer wings removed at the hinges; it still managed to get airborne!