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01 Sep 2013 14:18 #191 by superplum
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What happened to the F100 that was at Sculthorpe?


Yes I wondered about that one. Although not strictly a gate guard (on the entry r'bout to the airfield), I remember it from 82 - Jag Bolthole.
Could it have gone to Lkn?

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01 Sep 2013 16:41 #192 by Dan Hardy
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Just read on t'internet that the F-100 that is now at Croughton was originally at Sculthorpe, and was then moved to Upper Heyford. It is an ex-French Air Force machine.
Lakenheath's is apparently also an ex-Armee de l'Air plane, and came to Suffolk directly from France. It is painted to represent a USAF F-100 that crashed at Wheelus in Libya in 1969 (pilot ejected safely).

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01 Sep 2013 18:11 #193 by canberra
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That answers that one. Unless it was one of those that were flown in and stored on the airfield rather than the one on the roundabout.

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01 Sep 2013 18:29 #194 by superplum
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That answers that one. Unless it was one of those that were flown in and stored on the airfield rather than the one on the roundabout.


Along with the Mysteres that were flown in during 82?

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02 Sep 2013 08:38 #195 by canberra
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Didn't know about Mysteres in 82. When I was at Sculthorpe (78-79) there were lots of F100s, Mysteres and T33s that had already been delivered, more were delivered in 1980.

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10 Sep 2013 10:13 #196 by netcompsys
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I suppose not a gate guard in the conventional sense that it is on a an airfield or related site, this Hunter GA11 is at the Riverside MOT Centre in Melksham. photographed 2/9/2013

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www.flashearth.com/?lat=51.373994&lon=-2...&z=19.5&r=0&src="msl"

Painted as WB188, it is in fact XF300
www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=335

and strikingly has been used as a canvas by Artist Tim Daddio
www.nowaydaddio.co.uk/portfolio.html

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15 Jan 2014 18:27 #197 by REF
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Two photos of Dominie XS727 at Cranwell, taken by David Thompson

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15 Jan 2014 22:34 #198 by David Thompson
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Thanks Rich .
I took these last September shortly after the Dominie had been placed there and hence the holding down ropes...while the glue sets !

The Dominie is very close to the other Cranwell gate guard , Jet Provost T5A XW353 , which can be seen in the rear of the second photograph . Car parking is easy as is access to both aircraft .
Youth is wasted on the young !

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25 May 2014 11:37 #199 by netcompsys
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Visiting former RAF Locking earlier this year I was amazed (considering the otherwise almost complete erradication of the buildings) to still see the remains of the gate guard information board and the metal poles that held the chain around the gate guard area were still there

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Over the years this spot has I think had a least two spitfires eg

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source William Campbell

and a gnat

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14 Jun 2014 16:19 #200 by airfields man
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A few more that I took yesterday at Wycombe (Naphill) sadly they are both in need of attention.
There is a lot of grime, of the green sort, in various places that needs to be cleaned off.
The Dead got memorials, The living got time.

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