Treasury announce significant reduction in size of Nimrod Fleet....
 

Cost savings alone from crew size reduction and fuel burn believed to be significant, additional balloon tyres available for over water operations..........

Heeehehehehehe sorry I coudn't help myself.. Happy New Year Everyone..:p


Oh and I took the pic too :O

http://www.skonk.net/main.php?g2_vie...serialNumber=1

Carlisle Airport?

Really nice little museum - well worth the visit. Even my teenage niece, with no prior interest in aviation, found it a really interesting day out.

Yup, you got it in one :D

Is that the only significant piece of hardware from the AEW program to survive?

Aww, the AEW! Many happy memories from Waddington in the 80s :)

XV 277

Not so much hardware, but the radomes from the front of the aircraft were in use at Woodford golf club as rain shelters a slack handful of years ago. They may have been trimmed down, but stood about 6 feet tall and were sited at various tee positions round the course.

Image at following link of rain shelter

http://ukga.com/images/content/image6026.JPG

Woodford Airfield Photos

Caption on the image

'In the 80's when they converted the Mk 2 Nimrod to Mk 3's they had a number of removed Mk 2 radomes not required.

I remember when i worked there that they used some on the golf course at the back of Woodford aerodrome as shelters - they are still there to this day!'

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i9...u/DSC00413.jpg


With a letter from "Boscombe Down Nimrod AEW Flight Trials Team" (Feb '84)

requesting 15 mugs be supplied with the following names;

Len, Mark, Jane, Bill, Cathy, Phil , Mo, Simon, Lewis, Robert, Robbie, Al, Bob, SWO, ADJ,

I've still got my "Dead White Elephant" tie if that counts! Mind you, I did see a comms panel (AMRICS) for sale in the strange little electronics shop at the bottom of Steep Hill in Lincoln a few years ago, and there are one or two perspex map console overlays still in existance. (I've also got a set of FRCs hidden away somewhere including the Trevit Wheel).

Nice new Canon 50D huh!

Seems to be a bit missing from the nose of that cockpit section..

That nose section must represent one of the most expensive museum exhibits out.

Was it in 'How Not To Do It' corner?

That's somewhat comforting to know that the sole surviving objects from Great Britain's multi million pound Airborne Early Warning program are a mug and a rainshelter. It's the British way!:D

Just before Xmas 1986 a Xmas card circulated in MoD. It pictured a Nimrod AEW, with Santa emerging from a hatch on the tail radome with an AWACS hanging out of his sack. This was before e-mail, yet every office seemed to have one. Obviously a well organised prank but BAe weren't amused. Anyone still got one?

Im surprised nobody has robbed the A+B,D + E screens,they look in pretty good nick :)

Have no idea what happened to the refuelling probe though , it just looks in a real bad way , im sure a quick ADF and she will be fine :)

Wot no galley?:eek: