Treasury announce significant reduction in size of Nimrod Fleet....
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Treasury announce significant reduction in size of Nimrod Fleet....
Cost savings alone from crew size reduction and fuel burn believed to be significant, additional balloon tyres available for over water operations..........
Heeehehehehehe sorry I coudn't help myself.. Happy New Year Everyone..
Oh and I took the pic too
Heeehehehehehe sorry I coudn't help myself.. Happy New Year Everyone..
Oh and I took the pic too
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Not so much hardware, but the radomes from the front of the aircraft were in use at Woodford golf club as rain shelters a slack handful of years ago. They may have been trimmed down, but stood about 6 feet tall and were sited at various tee positions round the course.
Not so much hardware, but the radomes from the front of the aircraft were in use at Woodford golf club as rain shelters a slack handful of years ago. They may have been trimmed down, but stood about 6 feet tall and were sited at various tee positions round the course.
Image at following link of rain shelter
http://ukga.com/images/content/image6026.JPG
Woodford Airfield Photos
Caption on the image
'In the 80's when they converted the Mk 2 Nimrod to Mk 3's they had a number of removed Mk 2 radomes not required.
I remember when i worked there that they used some on the golf course at the back of Woodford aerodrome as shelters - they are still there to this day!'
http://ukga.com/images/content/image6026.JPG
Woodford Airfield Photos
Caption on the image
'In the 80's when they converted the Mk 2 Nimrod to Mk 3's they had a number of removed Mk 2 radomes not required.
I remember when i worked there that they used some on the golf course at the back of Woodford aerodrome as shelters - they are still there to this day!'
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Is that the only significant piece of hardware from the AEW program to survive?
With a letter from "Boscombe Down Nimrod AEW Flight Trials Team" (Feb '84)
requesting 15 mugs be supplied with the following names;
Len, Mark, Jane, Bill, Cathy, Phil , Mo, Simon, Lewis, Robert, Robbie, Al, Bob, SWO, ADJ,
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I've still got my "Dead White Elephant" tie if that counts! Mind you, I did see a comms panel (AMRICS) for sale in the strange little electronics shop at the bottom of Steep Hill in Lincoln a few years ago, and there are one or two perspex map console overlays still in existance. (I've also got a set of FRCs hidden away somewhere including the Trevit Wheel).
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Nice new Canon 50D huh!
Seems to be a bit missing from the nose of that cockpit section..
Seems to be a bit missing from the nose of that cockpit section..
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That's somewhat comforting to know that the sole surviving objects from Great Britain's multi million pound Airborne Early Warning program are a mug and a rainshelter. It's the British way!
Just before Xmas 1986 a Xmas card circulated in MoD. It pictured a Nimrod AEW, with Santa emerging from a hatch on the tail radome with an AWACS hanging out of his sack. This was before e-mail, yet every office seemed to have one. Obviously a well organised prank but BAe weren't amused. Anyone still got one?
