Bluetail wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 25, 2025 7:16 pm

They are departing at 10.00am on Friday

Many thanks Bluetail

Many thanks Thunder and Ranger703

Hi Bluetail
Do you know how long the reds are up at Lossie for ?

Halton Hunter 2011

Merry Christmas/Christmas Greetings + HNY for 2025

Thanks Pete - they certainly do

Thanks R9 I usually drink Cider or Vino Collapso whilst in Norway,it is strange though - they have a large cider producing area especially around Hardangerfjord and yet we never saw any local cider for sale in any of the supermarkets we used,they seem to stock a lot of Somersby Cider (Yuk) or if luc...

Thanks Amp and M531 :) - the pics were taken by my OH - she was using our very old Canon G15 which actually takes pretty good pics in low light,but overall it was a lovely museum to visit - the aircraft and other artefacts obviously take priority - which is not necessarily the case in our own museum...

Data Plate on a licence built Siddeley Panther - built at Horten - most of the Factory/Seaplane Buildings are extant and part of a museum (must try to visit sometime :) ) https://i.imgur.com/EV3i69Yh.jpg This Catalina is immaculate and under cover unlike the shocking state of the poor Cat at Cosford...

We did a 2nd trip to Norway this year - flying Aberdeen - Bergen and then driving north over the first week up to Bodo (and slightly beyond) once north of Trondheim we were mostly on the Fv17 ,crossing into the arctic circle on the Kilboghavn - Jetvik Ferry (spectacular - one of the highlights).Our ...

In my last job I worked on 154 on and off for 13 years - she still had the original wings and fuse + still original type of tailplane,as did XX342 which was one of our other jets,although her wing was replaced at 6,000 hrs by a 'used' wing from the RAF. 154 was quite significantly different in a few...

Many thanks for the kind words Pete and Doddy. One of the things that impressed us about Norway was an apparent lack of petty officialdom,we actually visited this museum twice - the first time was on our first day in the country - it was sunny and warm,our hotel was almost right next door to the mus...

Thanks for the kind comment Vulture
I forgot to post any shots from the 'Jet' Hangar,I might have a look through them tomorrow and see what we have got,I had to use images from my OH's camera as mine has ended up with a bad 'mark' on each image .

https://i.imgur.com/GyO0V7dh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ilb1uj2h.jpg https://i.imgur.com/pLsl8rSh.jpg Mig 15 emerges https://i.imgur.com/fRnD4T7h.jpg Mig 15 taxying out after the longest and most resonating start I have ever heard (I thought it was going to blow :) https://i.imgur.com/sdlbndUh.jpg Loa...

We had a lovely 2 weeks in Norway during June and managed to squeeze in 1 day at Sola Airshow :D Being a couple of saddos we asked for a hotel room overlooking the runway :lol: - the 0635 departure spools up over the road. https://i.imgur.com/oo5qM87h.jpg The Storch waits for Wizz Air to depart befo...

Thanks M531 :) Lucky you getting a 440 trip (jealous I am :) ) When I was based at Brawdy in the late 1970's we used to get a regular similar USN C - 131 on its 'milk run' to supply the NAVFAC 'Oceanographic Survey' facility (or whatever the cover name for the Sub tracking station was in those days ...

We could not get access to the Wings/Centre Section - the wings are in the building which was originally the 'water tank' for initial storage of all components. The Centre section has (not surprisingly) dissimilar metal corrosion and will need fairly extensive remedial work before the aircraft can b...

And so into the workshop where we were very kindly shown round by Siegfried H (ex F84/F86 and F104 pilot) who is involved with restoration of the He 115 and Norwegian built Tiger Moth (+ possibly other projects). Arado 96 - which is looking fantastic and nearing completion. https://i.imgur.com/jr905...

He 115 Fuselage https://i.imgur.com/I623seqh.jpg He 115 + PBY https://i.imgur.com/DQ56IxEh.jpg Before https://i.imgur.com/uhFx3jqh.jpg And After https://i.imgur.com/gpd4wJ5h.jpg Convair 440 https://i.imgur.com/IPzl3Cyh.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/TTQRGaYh.jpg?1 Crewroom 'Salute' to fellow NATO members...

During our June holiday in Norway we visited the wonderful Sola Flyhistorik Museum at the old Sola Flying Boat Base,some extremely rare birds at this museum and a friendly staff member took us for an impromptu visit to the workshop. Outside with the old slipway on the right https://i.imgur.com/TZ8B7...

Lovely Pics Tom :) I hope you do not mind me adding a very short vid clip of the Cat landing at Connel (Oban) on friday (it is too short a clip to make a specific post). They did an overnight stop at Connel (Oban) on friday,so we popped over for the day - one of our fave airfields - so pretty Here i...