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By: - 15th February 2006 at 21:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Wrong canopy for an F.8 and no guns either - my bet is therefore a T.7.
By: - 15th February 2006 at 21:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
That airframe looks like a T.7 converted from an F.4. The tail on it is an early mark tail (fairly short and rounded) and the cannon ports have had a panel put over where they would be on a single seat aircraft.
By: - 15th February 2006 at 22:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
It's a T7.
By: - 15th February 2006 at 22:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
It's a T7.
Pretty sure thats WL349 owned by GAC.
By: - 15th February 2006 at 23:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Pretty sure thats WL349 owned by GAC.
I think there are a couple of other T7's there, WL345 and WF784. They were going to convert 345 into an F3 at one point by fitting a different nose section. Don't know if this has happened yet.
By: - 16th February 2006 at 00:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Your picture shows the one time Staverton gate guard T.7 WL349. It was camouflaged and the remnants of that colour is visible on the canopy. The other T.7 in store here is WF784 (see my photo of '784 here to compare).
By: - 16th February 2006 at 23:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I think there are a couple of other T7's there, WL345 and WF784. They were going to convert 345 into an F3 at one point by fitting a different nose section. Don't know if this has happened yet.
Had not heard of this interesting proposal. They would presumably be planning to shorten both engine nacelles fore and aft of the wing as well
Roger Smith.
By: - 17th February 2006 at 03:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Surely the proposal must relate to WL349 as WL345 remains on a pole near St Leonards - see prior thread?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=705046
By: - 9th March 2006 at 04:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Definitely a T.7. This looks very like one that stood outside the flying club at Staverton, not far from the control tower (sometime between 1993 & 1996) when I dropped in in a Wessex (Queen of the skies) on a training trip. It was camouflaged then (Like the wings in the photo) and carried 72 Sqn markings. Two names appeared under the cockpit, one of them a Group Captain. Could be the same one stripped of paint?
By: - 9th March 2006 at 08:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The same one stripped of paint? Yes, it is.
By: - 9th March 2006 at 08:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Sorry, P.S. It actually carried 28 Squadron markings, not because it had ever served with that squadron, but because an officer on its last unit before retirement, had.
By: - 10th March 2006 at 04:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hi Steve,
I am sure it carried 72's Blue bars outlined in red and not the blue/yellow combination of 28 Sqn, though memory being what it is! i think i have a photo somewhere. if i can find it I will try to post it on the forum.
Yours
Tom
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By: Plazz - 15th February 2006 at 21:28
I took this photo recently at Gloucester Airport (Staverton).
Is it a T.7 or an F.8?
Also, how can you tell?
Thanks, Plazz