Retiring RAF's Hercules will leave initial capability gap, new air chief says.
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Ah, for some reason I’d assumed the Airbus was jet powered.
I got to see this as I drove past Cranwell.
They came over the A34 heading east (presumably the RWB to Wycombe leg of the flight) as my bus home yesterday was passing Abingdon. I was going to say I was surprised how low they were, but maybe it was a big/far-away thing.
I only discovered recently that Airbus had made revised Beluga planes (I only knew about the original 5). Love what they’ve done with the windows:
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Huge flight of helicopters, Chinooks and, err, other ones just passed over the house at window-rattling height.
Is there an airshow on or something? King’s birthday?
Alien invasion? That would be much cooler 
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Celebration of Boris’s retirement.
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Trooping the colour or King’s Birthday style bollocks was on the BBC earlier today. Didn’t bother to find out what it was though.
In 1947, Art Lacey purchased a B-17 bomber for $13,000 and flew it from Oklahoma to Troutdale. He then disassembled it, transported it covertly, and placed it atop his 48-pump gas station.
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That’s the coolest petrol station I’ve ever seen, possibly the coolest on the planet. Unless that is there’s one with an EE Lightning on top of it somewhere…
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Oddly enough, there is one at a car dealers in Cornwall (Castle Motors):
I used to drive past it pretty regularly, always gave me a lift to see it 
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The full story is even better. 
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The Lightning is still there but no longer directly visible from the A38.
I also like this Hunter perched by the entrance to Ford aerodrome (now the site of the car boot) and recently cleaned.
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The sound of those seven EE Lightnings doing a low high speed pass must of been completely off the scale.
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Great picture! I learned a lot about the old Ark and her resident squadrons from Rowland White’s book:
It’s a good read, strongly recommended. HIs Vulcan 607 is also very good - I haven’t read his others but I’m sure they are all worth a look.
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