RRE Pershore

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by bahrain80

The only remaining Comet 4C's of 2-16 Sqn are XR398 (In a field in Germany in Dan Air livery) and XR399 which is at East Fortune airport nr Edinburgh also in DA livery> 395/6 and 7 were used by Dan Air after RAF and then scrapped I believe at Lasham.k

XR396 was reportedly broken up at Bitteswell in 1981, but then the nose and/or rear fuselage (reports vary) were transported to Kinloss for BDRT, surviving until around 1998.

[chopper2004]

Originally Posted by chevvron

Fareast driver: similar thing happened with the Varsity at Farnborough which trialed FLIR and LLTV. It came back from a trip late at night and OC Flying flew over the airfield to find out what detail he could see and was heard to declare on the tape 'I'm happy to try a landing using that picture'.
So he flew a visual circuit and lowered the gear, only for the nosewheel to block the view of the FLIR, both it and the LLTV sensors being in the forward vision panels in the 'bomb bay' below the aircraft!

what year was that?

cheers

[chevvron]

Must have been around '77 or '78; Ian Strachan was the OC Flying I referred to.
Once they had developed the basic sensors in the Varsity, development was transferred to Hunter then Jaguar.