Cranwell Hawk Thread
 

So, what happened to it (unless I am blind?)

Little/nothing contained therein of threat to any BoI or disclosure to press.

"Little/nothing contained therein of threat to any BoI or disclosure to press."

How do you know????

Well, by comparing the content of the thread with what happened.

Well, I was under the impression this was a discussion forum.

That thread was actually interesting to me with some of the side chatter. I was just curious as to why it had been abitarily deleted.

Well I'll open up some discussion.

The BBC news page stated that the ac crashed on a car park. Was it occupied by parked vehicles, were any of them hit and if so were they insured for airside?

If not so insured, does the RAF cough up? Doubt it but, as some one who worked airside for many years and didn't bother with airside insurance (spanking accepted Sir!) I would be interested to hear any comments.

Hawk Down???
 

Hi guys, an ex-service mate phoned me tonight with news of e-mail photos from another ex-mate, apparently showing a very bent Hawk in the car park of Cranwell control tower.

It looked as if both the bang seat guns had been fired ( the rods were well out ) and the fuselage had broken. The wing eading edge was very mangled.

Anyone know when or if this happened, hope everone was OK - tower pics showed broken windows too and the ATC Landrover was somewhat bent!!

It seems that the OP, no longer has a membership here, or at least when you click on his 'name', an invalid membership warning crops up. Thats a shame.

If you're reading this, all the best.

You need to know, and understand, that mods rarely delete entire threads. That's the first point.

Secondly, the original starter of the thread can delete it. When he does so it is gone forever. I would love to know the reason in this case though.

PPP

State 1
 

Yes A Hawk was off the normal operating area and yes the Guys got out. A previous thread gave quite A lot of detail but has since been removed by the original poster and so is therefore no longer on PPRUNE.
It came to rest on/in the ATC car park. The rest I will leave to people still in the know.

BBC coverage here.

BBC NEWS | England | Lincolnshire | Airmen injured in RAF jet crash

Some years ago a Chinook lost its rotor over the airfield at Odiham, the rotor landed in a carpark on a taxiway. Although airside I believe they paid up as it was a designated station carpark.

Rej, black Hawk parked squarely in middle of ATC car park. The photos I have seen would indicate that Sidney the scrap dealer will have a few more cars in his compound. I'm guessing there's also a need for a new ATC or Sappho Land Rover.

Although it was comforting to note, from one of the photos originally posted, that the "station bicycles" escaped without damage! ;)

Are there still such things as SWO's treaders? What great bikes they were - single geared but well built and you could get a fair turn of speed out of them.

The SWOs bike pool.. do they still even exist?

And some of them, I'm told, rattled like an old barn door! :E

The old blue clearance chits always had a signature required from the Station Bicycle Store. Hardly anyone knew where that was, so unless they got a mate to sign (normal aircrew procedure), they used to ring up and find out.

What a jolly jape it was to amend the phone number in the directory to that of the station Queen Bee.......:E

Oh well, back to this stunningly tedious thread.....:rolleyes:

I ALWAYS made sure I knew where the 'Station Bicycle' was kept, B:)

("stunningly tedious thread" -any better?)

A little, BOAC!

Looks like the PPRuNe clock is out to lunch again......I really didn't post this at 0209 BST.

Years ago a Vulcan went off the runway at Waddo and finished up in the ATC car park. There was some banter about insurance claims, made by the car owners, who filled in the section re damage to other vehicle as "£ 3 million"

The Hawk also demolished the pyro store, I've got a spare brick or 2.

It was previously stated that the car park was not airside.