View Full Version : Have you lost a Tornado fuel tank?
ricardian
4th Jan 2018, 22:34
Tornado fuel tank found in Lancashire garden centre (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-lancashire-42565583)
Presumably it was empty
NutLoose
5th Jan 2018, 03:11
plenty on ebay a none story really.
4mastacker
5th Jan 2018, 07:00
It must be a desperately slow news day. Meanwhile, in other news, "Aircraft seen landing at airport - hundreds of passengers involved".
99 Change Hands
5th Jan 2018, 07:47
It looks in better nick than the one G** R**** left in Downham Market at the start of the SMS issue. If I recall, the chap in whose garden it landed had formerly worked in the Victor Fuel Bay and wrote to the Stn Cdr saying he stopped taking work home years ago.
Jumping_Jack
5th Jan 2018, 08:55
Hardly a 'Mystery' was it! The article identified who it belonged to and why it was there!
And here I’m thinking one came tumbling down from the skies after having sheared off a ‘nader cranking and banking....chasing a bandit or two...
Little less exciting really..
barry lloyd
5th Jan 2018, 09:52
Two additional aviation connections there. The garden centre is close to Barton Hall, the former site of Preston ATC centre. Barton Hall was built for the Shuttleworth family. The tank probably felt quite at home there! :)
NutLoose
5th Jan 2018, 11:03
I bet this was draughty hurtling along on the pylon
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4d/ae/49/4dae4978dc5d715b81bc4983941a3367.jpg
Burnt Fishtrousers
5th Jan 2018, 12:12
Probably full of Red Diesel
Good to see a big jug being put to some useful purpose for a change......on the F3 they were officially labelled 2250 ltr Drop Tanks; use them then lose them - a good thing in view of the limitations imposed by carrying them......
GeeRam
5th Jan 2018, 18:30
Can't beat the use petrolheads put many a war-surplus P-38 aux tanks to in the late 40's to '60's on the California dry lakes and on the salt flats at Bonneville :ok:
https://i0.wp.com/bestsellingcarsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Belly-Tank-Racer.jpg
FlapJackMuncher
5th Jan 2018, 19:27
I thought the P38 tanks were made of cardboard unless I've got my P's mixed up?
I might be thinking of P51's.
GeeRam
5th Jan 2018, 21:02
Yep, P-51's used British manufactured cardboard/paper 'use once only' aux tanks. They also used metal tanks as well for ferry flights etc. Both tanks were identical in shape/size and the easy way to tell which is which is the paper ones had a shiney finish to them as they were finished in silver dope.
ShotOne
6th Jan 2018, 11:57
The mystery is where our allegedly overstretched and underfunded police found the time to "investigate" this non-story