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For those that care, Lightning XM192 is being set up at the Tattershall museum - Thorpe Camp - near Coningsby. Bit sad at the moment without wings or fin but the fuselage looks in very good nick for a 40 years plus airframe.

I think the camp is also home to the RAF escaping society.

Last time I was there I was amazed at the model of the underground V2 factory. I saw the film and thought it was science fiction :)

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link to thorpe, click on recent additions for more info
http://www.thorpecamp.org.uk/

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"Green Granite"

I think that there is a"Red Snow"around, I wonder if "Orange Herald " will be joining us?

Yellow Sun

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Quite popular right now, I believe.

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... or Blue Danube and Violet Club

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Yellow sun & all other colours
Greetings to you all
Perhaps we should form an "explosive" splinter group:hmm:
Then we could grapple with the problems:ouch:

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Led by a man with a Red Beard and Antler?:D

YS

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"Perhaps we should form an "explosive" splinter group"

You should all get together. It would be a blast.

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Omg!

Beadwindow

Vc

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What a marvelous thread, happened upon it out of curiosity and the first couple of posts seemed quite ordinary however am now totally lost and confused with all these colours and escape clubs?
Do you all work at JHC by chance???

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Should've tried harder at school.

:E

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And being chased by a buffalo of course :E

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No Im ex H eng; did a lot of trials work on we177

Try google for confusion take 3 times a day with food :)

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Orange Harvest, anyone?;) I know, it didn't go bang, just keeping the colour theme going.

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Speaking of Lightnings, does anyone know te intended fate of the aircraft that has spent a number of years on a plinth outside a factory on the South Gyle industrial estate in west Edinburgh?

Over the past few months the factory has been demolished, leaving the now very forlorn looking aircraft still sitting there: I hope not overlooked by the owners/ex owners of the site or preservation interests. I'd hate it to suffer the same fate as the aircraft that sat aongside the A1 at Balderton near Newark for years (and maybe still does) in a very undigfnified state.

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Sounds rather like the Ferranti site. I wonder what could be done? Does anyone have a line to the Museum of Flight at East Fortune?

Perhaps a Red Steer to the Green Satin perhaps??

Don't think they would want another one.......especially as it's 'only' an ex-RSAF F.53

East Fortune are fortunate in having one of the few remaining complete examples of an F.2A.