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It looks like a Rob job to me
The first (and second) time I drove round the peri track at Marham a goodly while back I was really shocked to see the skeletal remains of Tornados sitting in quietly abandoned stagnation with large numbers of missing pieces
"What happened?"
"Reduced to spares...."
The first (and second) time I drove round the peri track at Marham a goodly while back I was really shocked to see the skeletal remains of Tornados sitting in quietly abandoned stagnation with large numbers of missing pieces
"What happened?"
"Reduced to spares...."
The thing with your average access panel is that while it's meant to be interchangeable, they rarely are!
So judging by my day job of fixing a different kind of faded military aircraft and seeing them go out after a depth servicing looking like a patchwork quilt of new paint mixed with faded original, I'd just say it's touch ups during the servicing.
So judging by my day job of fixing a different kind of faded military aircraft and seeing them go out after a depth servicing looking like a patchwork quilt of new paint mixed with faded original, I'd just say it's touch ups during the servicing.
tight5 said:
I remember talking to an A10 pilot in the 80s who on seeing a Lightning which we had dredged out of Dogger Bank remarked "If that was my Warthog I'd still be flying it!"ApOrbital said:
How come it ended up in dogger bank apart from dropping out of the sky?
Given this is a Lightning we're talking about the pilot probably ejected due to an engine fire, perhaps after pointing the aircraft in the direction of the oggin to prevent it landing on someone's house.List of Lightning incidents, AKA where in the North Sea they were ditched.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_an...
Although typically first in the list the Prototype T4 was ditched in the Irish sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_an...
Although typically first in the list the Prototype T4 was ditched in the Irish sea.
19 September 1985 – - Lightning F6 XS921 of No. 11 Squadron
Crashed into the North Sea fifty miles off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire after the pilot ejected following loss of control due to malfunction of the aileron powered flying control unit. Probably caused by a foreign object jamming one of the four aileron input levers
Flt. Lt Craig Penrice ejected -"Pulled the handle at 19,000 feet, 0.98 M or 540 knots. Broken elbow and broken knee, returned to flying 11 months later after 22 bits of metal to fix broken joints and a nerve transplant..."
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=5...
I remember most of the Lightning accidents in the 80s I even watched this one as it unfolded https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=5...
Crashed into the North Sea fifty miles off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire after the pilot ejected following loss of control due to malfunction of the aileron powered flying control unit. Probably caused by a foreign object jamming one of the four aileron input levers
Flt. Lt Craig Penrice ejected -"Pulled the handle at 19,000 feet, 0.98 M or 540 knots. Broken elbow and broken knee, returned to flying 11 months later after 22 bits of metal to fix broken joints and a nerve transplant..."
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=5...
I remember most of the Lightning accidents in the 80s I even watched this one as it unfolded https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=5...
MartG said:
hidetheelephants said:
Given this is a Lightning we're talking about the pilot probably ejected due to an engine fire,...
Or ran out of fuel 
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