Does anyone know the location of the Meteor and Whirlwind shown on the demobbed site?
http://www.demobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=1757
Many Thanks
Al
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Meteor and Whirlwind at leconfield
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Re: Meteor and Whirlwind at leconfield
The Meteor stands close to the 202 E Flight HQ and I'm pretty sure that the Whirlwind met it's end on the Leconfield fire-dump before the Army School of Transport built their driving range over it .
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Re: Meteor and Whirlwind at leconfield
I have managed to find the Meteor. It is located in an open ended hangar at the following location with no view from the outside
53.877315,-0.445279
Does anyone have any info on the Whirlwind? If it is still here or not?
53.877315,-0.445279
Does anyone have any info on the Whirlwind? If it is still here or not?
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Re: Meteor and Whirlwind at leconfield
Does anyone have any info on the Whirlwind? If it is still here or not?
No , I don't believe so ?
Edit ; have just checked Wrecks & Relics 18 of 2002 and it reports 'tendered and scrapped during early 2001 .'
No , I don't believe so ?
Edit ; have just checked Wrecks & Relics 18 of 2002 and it reports 'tendered and scrapped during early 2001 .'
Youth is wasted on the young !
Re: Meteor and Whirlwind at leconfield
This is nothing to do with either aircraft mentioned here but the thread reminded me of a Whirlwind at the back of Sibson airfield near Peterborough during the late '80s.
I had the daft idea to buy it and save it for posterity. Needless to say, I didn't.
I had the daft idea to buy it and save it for posterity. Needless to say, I didn't.
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Re: Meteor and Whirlwind at leconfield
Many Thanks DaveDavid Thompson wrote:Does anyone have any info on the Whirlwind? If it is still here or not?
No , I don't believe so ?
Edit ; have just checked Wrecks & Relics 18 of 2002 and it reports 'tendered and scrapped during early 2001 .'
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