Yes, would also be interested to see photos especially of Holme. Have a few logs but no photos... HOSM 29/8/73 Bucc S2A XV863/864 RN + an RAF S2B Phantom FG1 XV584/I 43Sq, XV567/R 892Sq, XT873 RAF no marks 6/5/74 Bucc S2B XV350 Phantom FG1 XV581/E 43Sq Phantom FGR2 XT901/T 2Sq, XV394 no marks 16/8/7...

Thanks for the comments on the repaint Sheff, and yes, what a sad end for a unique airframe.

I remember XH132 leaving Bedford for St Mawgan ( for fire training?) in mid to late 1986, in the "raspberry ripple" scheme. Any one know why it was later repainted grey?

Trenchard wrote

Andy as of tomorrow UTC and 'Zulu' are one and the same, so no need to add an hour

UTC and 'zulu' are always one and the same. As of tomorrow they are the same as local time

yes but they will still be an hour behind us.

We will all be on UTC from tomorrow.......

NOTAM U3143/10 gives Wittering opening hours as 0900-1700 Mon-Thu, closed Fri., from 1/11/10.

Tarnish 9 delivered an airframe to Conongsby this morning, might be the one?

tg13 Fascinating stuff there, would be very interested to see any more, thanks for the post.

This post reminded me of my time at Lindholme/Northern Radar in the early seventies so, if any one is interested, here is a flavour of the times...... 29/4/71 Sea Prince T1 WM738/LM-628, WF128/LM-638, WM735/LM-648, WP320/LM-658, WP321/LM-659, 750Sq Lossiemouth. (Visit to Northern Radar) 23/7/71 Vulc...

Would agree with sheff on the location as Finningley but the date may be 61 or 63, any way, great film and nice to see Victors doing the scramble demo!

tg13 thanks for the brilliant airshow clip. I have early memories of a Battle of Britain air show at Lindholme and have often tried to identify which year my visit took place. As far as I have been able to discover, shows were held there in 1957/8/9 but nothing later, so the reference to 1962 on thi...

As a child growing up in Retford, with an aviation mad Dad, the Meteors and Vampires from Worksop (known to many locals as Scofton) were some of my earliest aviation memories. Unfortunately I do not remember going to the airfield but our part of Retford was under the final approach to one of the run...

Great photos there, happy memories - any shots of the Meteors with 85Sq Keith? I last noted any on 23/10/69 when F8 WH291/T and T7 WL378/W were active.

By coincidence came across this today - WH291 in happier times, at Finningley, September 1973

The radar on St Kilda supports operations in the danger area complex west of the Hebrides. In the 1980s these ops included Rapier SAMs, Lance battlefield nuclear missiles (without the warhead!) and release to service trials of Martel and Sea Eagle. The Sea Harrier was from Boscombe Down, carrying a ...

Quid 31 currently heading for AARA 13 to refuel Talon 72, both chatting on 315.925

The Dak did a flypast at Holmes Chapel, Cheshire at around 1540 local yesterday and departed southbound.

Its a while ago (and the memory is not so good!) but pretty sure it was a Llanbedr crew using a "Nugget" call-sign. I believe Tarrant Rushton closed in 1980 so guess it may have been transferred to RAE. WK143 had been originally converted for AAR trials along with WH734, another Llanbedr Canberra wh...

Llanbedr based Canberra B(TT)2 WK143 was a fairly regular visitor to Benbecula for target towing duties on the missile ranges to the west of the Hebrides. Seen there between sorties on 25/5/83

Tarnish 08 landed at Warton in a Hawk T2 between 2 and 3pm local, which could tie in.