Gate Guards

What happened to the Javelin?

David wrote:

It went to the Jet Age Museum at Staverton on or around the 25 March 2015

That's good news. There is something about the Javelin that to my eye makes it more impressive that any other RAF jet of that era.

And now for something a little different, the gate guard at the Shuttleworth Trust, Old Warden







20/8/16

kevin

One flight in that gave rise to the expression "bricking it"

kebecker wrote:

Has to be the biggest one I have seen, •BA 721 Rochefort-Saint-Agnant. NCO school

here if anyones interested
www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.896786&lon=-0...&z=15.6&r=0&src="msa"

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I was intrigued by this photo of base aérienne 721 rochefort which is a French Air Force Technical School
The silhouette on the parade square is particularly striking

The Airfield is one of those (fairly common?) shared military and civil airfields, military to the north and civil to the south

I was also struck by a couple of other things
How much the shadow of the Gate Guard looked like Concorde in this view from Zoom Earth ( the replacement for Flashearth )
zoom.earth/#45.894399,-0.980659,15z,sat


and the number of Gate Guards. at least 5, including a Noratlas in Google Maps



Lastly if you have a quick snoop around using Zoom Earth and Google Maps, the number of other aircraft , some literally lying around is quite amazing. I spotted Mirage III, Mirage F1, Magisters. Some are clearly instructional airframes for the technical school, but others are just being scrapped

Gate Guards at the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop
ZSU-23/4

Beaver HC1 XP822

Scout AH1 XP910


I think these have all been in place for quite a while, note they even tarmaced around the ZSU-23/4...

The main gate seemed to have comprehensive set
Beaver
Souix
Scout
Gazelle
Lynx
25 pounder

I think that was the lot as I drove by.
Obviously none of these silly restrictions to "one per unit" here