Anyone feeling flush? F3 for sale
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Anyone feeling flush? F3 for sale
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They've hoovered all the Banana skins out of it since then...
No engines Si. So it's a glorified soapbox cart.
No engines Si. So it's a glorified soapbox cart.
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First trip on 14 Jan 91 when it arrived on 56 - on an Advanced radar sortie. Not sure I'd have paid that much for the experience though! At least it's not going to scrap which seems to be the norm nowadays.
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Some soapbox cart - this was the first 4-wheeled vehicle I was ever qualified to drive
(I only had a motorbike licence on the road. Oh, and no bananas yet, I was a staggeringly average stude pilot on this course.).
It did an earlier turn on the OCU, I flew it on 4 and 5 July 88
(I only had a motorbike licence on the road. Oh, and no bananas yet, I was a staggeringly average stude pilot on this course.).
It did an earlier turn on the OCU, I flew it on 4 and 5 July 88
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The guy restoring it was once a rigger on XI Sqn. He says in the company blurb that there's a personal connection. I would imagine he had a trip in ZE343 or his name on the side. ZE256 is still on the fin port side.
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They should replace the F3 gate guardian at Coningsby with it - both the F3 and F4 there are in a disgracefully scruffy state, partially covered with moss and other stuff
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We could always stuff him and have him mounted in the cockpit suitably adorned to add the little bit of realism.
