World aviation museum and gate guard map

[The Rat]

Not sure if you take relics, but someone on the facebook page Aviation Wrecks and Relics just posted a picture of a couple of Shackletons in the grass at Paphos/Pafos airport in Cyprus. Says he took it on February 18, 2023. There is a third aircraft visible in both photos, a smaller twin of some kind.

GPS 34.725849157475395, 32.46650058005082

Facebook post link: Shackletons

[PR19_Kit]

Those are two of the ex-8 Sqdn, Shackletons that were bought at the same time as the two Air Atlantique Shacks.

IIRC the Cypriot guy intended to return them to flight but did absolutely nothing with them.

[reddfoxx]

Thanks, have those, The Rat.  Other plane is a Flamant.

I do add relics, display planes, memorials.  Museums are the main focus, but we have many gate guards, etc.  Pretty much any preserved aviation history. 

[Nick]

I have a new one for you that I saw on TV last night. I did a double-take when it popped up on the screen.

Black Arrow Replica at Sandown Airfield on the Isle of Wight. https://wightaviationmuseum.org.uk/black-arrow/

[PR19_Kit]

That's MOST impressive! All those firms working together, and for free, not something you see much of in this 'corporate greed' based century.

It doesn't say how many tubes of putty they used for the PSR work though............ 

[reddfoxx]

Whoa!  That's impressive, and the photos make clear how sturdy the thing is.

[Rheged]

Black Arrow, a typically British creation that put the Prospero satellite into orbit on a fuel of kerosene and peroxide (paraffin and hair bleach!)  Science Museum pictures:-
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/pictures-black-arrow-rocket

[PR19_Kit]

I always found it impressive that while the large US rockets took off with VAST clouds of smoke and steam etc., the Black Arrow seemingly lifted off without even a visible flame coming out the back.

It just went.............. 

[The Rat]

Google maps doesn't show it yet, other than the blue dots for photos, but there's a new restaurant complex at the northeast end of the airport in Quebec City, at
46.79761666811437, -71.36848675252367 There is a 737 on display.
https://goo.gl/maps/mst1HxJ9DcpevK5R8

[reddfoxx]

Nice, added, thanks!

[Rheged]

I'm assuming that we are all aware of Ken Ellis and his "Wrecks and Relics" series   https://www.crecy.co.uk/wrecks-and-relics-28th-edition

[reddfoxx]

Yep.  An excellent reference.  I haven't seen a recent edition.  I do have some spare change floating around...

[The Rat]

Update to the Spitfire Emporium in Kitchener, Ontario. https://spitcrazy.kwsurplus.ca/

[reddfoxx]

 

[Nick]

Not too sure if this really counts but there is a Jet Provost fuselage being used as a horse jump at RAF Halton.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.788772,-0.742222,226m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0
https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/XW303.html

There is a Tornado on the parade ground near the Trenchard Museum.