Those of a certain age can probably remember brown and tan camo Hercules and a few remaining Andovers. The Beverley had been retired and most had been scrapped before I was born. A few sand/tan Argosies survived into the mid 1970s IIRC.... I can remember a 115 Sqn Argosy going low level inbound Binb...

The Few are getting fewer

https://theaviationist.com/2024/04/21/r ... ng-agm142/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DNy8x54zDA&t=164s

F-2000 and TF-2000 in AMI service As per here also

https://theaviationist.com/2024/03/26/i ... -exercise/

Interesting they chose what appears to be one of the most infrequently seen single-seat T1 jets, hope it's not a hangar queen. Apart from the Black painted thing not many do appear often.. After march next year, the only place anyone gets to see one will be Mount Pleasant. Or a fleeting glimpse of ...

Same number of Squadrons, but just less airframes on them per Sqn....

ZJ929 and ZJ939 have already been retired to Warton, along with ZJ937 which isn't yet retired.

Well yes as NATO clearly isn't on the bottle every night, and I seem to recall it was President Yeltsin (doing the same)at the time... So yes you were clearly dreaming about Putin. Oh and a wee bit of research will tell you that all but 1 or 2 of the Tu-22M3s were scrapped the pair of survivors went...

This Argentinian NATO application is another ruse inspired by those allegedly duplicitous Turkish members who are still sore about the Wooden Horse stunt way back!...imo. :whistle: How many other NATO members aside from Turkey have Russian missile systems? :grr: For Argentina, just join NATO & whil...

Checking any reports from Coningsby for either of those or on Lossiemouth for the latter might be a starter. Otherwise, as the former change frequently, no.

Going on the time they took to restore the Victor, which is now inside Airspace. I'd say this is following that trend....

Amp wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:33 am

How are they to depart Biggin?

As they are going to Australia, I suspect shrink wrapped.

reaper493 wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:01 pm

I think what Pol is referring to is the direction the aircraft went in - ie towards the tower/other aircraft/hangars.

True, thankfully it didn't come to that, and RIP to the pilot.

POL wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:58 am

That could have been far, far worse.

Given that they have announced the pilot and sole occupant did die, I can't see how it could have been any worse.

I expect there will be at least 14 retirements from the existing fleet, if not all originals bought in the early 1980s. It was supposedly going to be 9 of the oldest airframes out of the 60 in the fleet, so with an eventual fleet of 51, that probably will be the case. However they have retired 2 of...

And deduct the 6 already retired

To Waddington 2 July 1986 0fficially for Ground instructional use.

But put on display as a gate guardian, sadly a victim of the infamous One Gate Guardian only per airfield policy.


Scrapped August 1989

Same day 23 Squadron became the second E-3 Squadron

6 sqn 100th anniversary special Typhoon arriving at Fairford RIAT in 2014. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51031833776_a8fdb2bc7f_h.jpg Typhoon FGR4 ZK342/ED 6 Squadron RAF Lossiemouth by Paul Downes , on Flickr I generally dislike most 'special' paint schemes for jets - and this is a total doo...

6 Squadron got its first F-4s in january 1969 when they left the NEAF Strike Wing at Akrotiri. Made up of 6, 32,73 and 249 Squadrons

The F-4F at Scampton was never going to be the flying airframe. It was for spares as far as I recall whereas the one in Germany gained a UK Military serial ZK848