Giant RAF plane spotted in skies above Edinburgh

[MPN11]

Pah ... when Victors came into Waddington (rarely, thankfully) we used to have to remove snow flags from the taxiways.

They were VERY low! And quite big.

[Richard Taylor]

Originally Posted by chevvron

Obviously practicing for when English personnel have to be evacuated from Scotland when Knickerless Sturgeon declares UDI.

'Essential training'. So you may well be right....

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by unclenelli

When the An-225 came into Brize, they had to cut back trees outside the airfield!! (The wings overhung the fence!!!)

That yellow speck on the nose is a Totota Hilux!!!

No such problem when it operated from Farnborough, although they did manage to break the towbar one day (or was that the An124?).
Now where can you get an Antonov towbar in Europe at short notice?
By the way, the taxiway in the photo was designed for B47s and B52s so it's a bt wider than normal!!

[Asturias56]

I once rustled up an 8ft spanner for a P & Wh Twin Wasp on a DC3 from a local market in C Nigeria.................... it took a while to describe what we were looking for but once the local entrepreneurs figured it out it only took 20 minutes to find it - presumably it had "not been thrown away as it might be useful one day"

[India Four Two]

Come on Asturias, don’t just give us the preface. Let’s see the whole story. I think I can guess which company was involved.