:D Bravo!!! :ok::ok: Just covered my keyboard in snot.

Actually, I was thinking of either Niptune or Niprod!

A brief conversation from many years ago ........

Aged Aviator: Never fly the Mk 1!!

Young Teeters: The Mk 1 what?

AA: The Mk1 anything!!

YT: :eek:

OK ... If we were to buy/lease the P1 ... How many would we realistically need ?

There has been one (tongue-in-cheek) bid for twenty ... a bit unlikely I would have thought ... so what might be a realistic fleet size ?

Where would we base them now ... RAF St Mawgan and rescue Kinloss from the Army Engineers ?

Presumably there would be a need for rotating deployments to the Falklands and possibly Gibraltar to assist with the Med 'People Trafficking' problem.

Or even an Olion? Or Alorla?



/racist mode off.

Is it fit for purpose, or simply a source of sniggers at the tinted people? The UK equivalent: Zero.

Did you not fly the 40 year old Mk1 Puma JTO?

RAF St Mawgan's airfield site has been sold off to the county council but having said that, given the low volume of civilian flights I don't think there's anything to say that the RAF couldn't share it? (Given they often drop in now) The old Nimrod hangers are being used privately now for the Classic Air Force and other private things I believe, but I think there would be plenty of space to build new ones inside the wire next to the HAS site

Classic Airforce have more or less shuffled back up to Coventry post the cheap rent ending..

As we called one of our maritime aircraft Shackleton after the well known explorer, perhaps we could adopt a Japanese Antartica explorers name to call it,

One drops to mind

Nobu mk1 sounds cool :E

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japa...tic_Expedition

Nice one Nutty ...

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But Nobu was also a group of four Cargo ferries belonging to the Rebel Alliance in the Airam sector during the operations of Task Force Vengeance ...

[/StarWarsModeOff] :}

Thanks for that Nutloose, I hadn't realised - in fact I'm down in Cornwall on holiday at the moment and saw their VC10 today from the road, sorry for the thread drift but I don't suppose anyone knows what will happen to that as it's a tad big to move by road, let alone Cornish ones!

Well, if we're calling the F35 Dave, we could always call the P1 Babs, what with the carrier already being Betty...... :p

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worl...anese_aircraft

Hawk,

Several aircraft to big to move remain, the VC10, The BAC 1-11 and I think the Varsity, along with the resident Shack they are working on a nucleus of a new museum.

http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Sho...ail/story.html

For more read

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showt...ewquay-Closure

Give any new MPA to the RN...basing problem solved...

They could call it the "Singapore"..............

Well I'll climb mount Niitaka

Tora Tora Tora chuck

The "Name the Japanese MPA" thread is almost funnier than the Caption competition. Needed to rush for a quick wee after "Nimlod" though

Good looking aircraft albeit a bit stubby.


Wonder if they shutdown the outer engines on patrol ?

Not very much - old Wessex hand like myself never liked the 2nd Class post between collective and engines! :eek:

First pilot, day only (just) is my Puma qualification..........

But rather more hours on the Squirrel - also a Mk 1 of course.