Have you lost a Tornado fuel tank?
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Have you lost a Tornado fuel tank?
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plenty on ebay a none story really.
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.
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..
Little less exciting really..
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! 
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I bet this was draughty hurtling along on the pylon
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......
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 
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.
