There is one on a certain internet auction site for 500 pounds at the moment!

I've heard that the Lightning at Samlesbury is to be broken up, along with the Canberra, so I'm sure the Company will give you all the help they can, as long as there are no H&S issues!!!:rolleyes:

5Sqn Pilot

Check your PM's

Scott

I can suppply the ejection seat for one if your short!:hmm:

I think there might still be a certain S`Engo`s chair in the `Stackers` at Lyneham ,and a cushion if he`s that short ,Jim.....!

A gate guardian should be representative of the station's history, not just something previously flown by a new squadron somewhere else in bygone times....

The EE Lightning, fine jet that it was, has utterly no relevance to RAF Waddington.

Good point BEagle; can't off hand think of a similar "sqn" guardian with no station connection.

So why a Lightning over an ex 5 Sqn Javelin?

The pic mentioned earlier...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2322/...c3720559b6.jpg

It's for sale in looooooaaaaads of formats here, along with some other rather lovely snaps of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire...

http://www.redbubble.com/people/badd...still-on-guard

Some of the sales proceeds for this image go straight to charity (hence another shameless plug).

Ace.

It's not a guardian for the Station - it is going outside the Squadron and as such is representative of the Squadron's history.

23 have got a Phantom and how many of them flew from Waddo?

(Brampton have also got a Phantom and they haven't even got an airfield!)

Benbecula has got a Phantom too!

Oi Beagle.

Having read your post in detail, I feel you have made yet another posting blunder. Are you telling me that if a Sqn moves to another Station it no longer has a claim on any of its previously operated 'hardware', or have you once again launched feet first into a thread without reading the opening post correctly!!!

I shall await your post retraction and/or apology.

:ugh: :ugh: :ugh:

I suppose you wouldn't want them to display the Sqn silver as it too has no connection with Waddo? An extremely churlish reaction, if I may say so. Sorry Beags - wrong.

Definitely. The gate guardian should have relevance to the station's history. Waddington has an unfortunate precedent with the early E3 mob trying to ignore those who came before them - and who were an integral part of Lincolnshire life for decades.

XM607 is the only proper gate guardian for Waddington - new kids on the block can wait another quarter century before they can challenge that heritage.

Green Flush, my comment has absolutely nothing to do with Mess silver....

That 23 have one of The Crows' old F4s as a mascot is equally irrelevant.

..... :hmm: .....

So if they call it a mascot and not a gate-guardian can they have one then?
(no gates nearby anyway)

It may have been posted already, but why not try and rescue the one sat next to the A1 Grantham/Newark area!! It would give the JP something to polish other than his rocket!!!!:ok:

I feel that one may need just a bit more than a polish!

Beagle,

All they want is an airframe representing the squadron history to sit outside the squadron building. As 5 sqn now has a lot of army types is that wrong?

As for the "early E3 mob trying to ignore those who came before" What a crass statement, are you trying to say that no-one at Waddington on either squadron cares about the history of the station? or know about the aircraft that operated out of there?

as for "That 23 have one of The Crows' old F4s as a mascot is equally irrelevant"

No its not irelevant, who pays for the upkeep of that airframe? That airframe is the history of the squadron/RAF.


Let go Beagle, enjoy your retirement and stop the sniping. It gets tiring when ALL your posts have the undertone 'It/We were better in our day':hmm:

Probably because it 'were'?

At least a Lightning saved from the scrap heap parked outside the sqn would be better than an old cannon, or a stuffed horse or whatever else the pongos might wish for...

Fair enough if it isn't the station gate guardian, I'll concede.

But when the E3 was first at Waddo, it was cetainly true that a certain knob announced that the station 'was now an air defence station' and tried to do away with all traces of the V-force era.....

And my apologies to OC 5 Sqn for being rather rude....:=

Moved to Waddo in the mid 90's along with several hundred others from sunny Cambridgeshire.

At arrivals brief, young ginger haired OC GD announces that we are all there to support the E3. Grizzly old Flt Sgt in audience says "I'm not", followed by virtually everyone else in room saying the same. OC GD went redder than his hair.

S_H