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Post by Beemer on Oct 29, 2019 23:27:56 GMT 1
The weather looked good so I decided to take the Beemer for a day out to Shawbury and as I needed a lot of the Junos and Jupiters it was good enough reason. I have been inside here quite a few times when they did the hangar tours but never looked in from outside. I managed to find the spot used by spotters but being a sunny day I was looking direct into it. The sun moved round and a few clouds helped to make photographing a little easier. This is my list with a few photos to follow. The two GA tins were overflights while the two Tucanos were stored outside a hangar. The Hawk was towed from one hangar to another. All but one of the Helicopters went into the book that being ZM508 that did a g/a on 27 back in June.
Tuesday 29th October, 2019 RAF Shawbury
Reg/Code Type C/n Airline/Operator/Owner
G-ERFS Piper PA-28 161 Warrior II 28-8216051 Private
G-EVAA RotorSport UK Cavalon RSUK/CVLN/014 Private
XX224 Hawker Siddeley Hawk T.1W 41H-312060 Royal Air Force
ZF268 Short Tucano T.1 T52 Royal Air Force
ZF446 Short Tucano T.1 T110 Royal Air Force
ZM502 Airbus Helicopters H145 Jupiter HT.1 20133 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM506 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2003 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM508 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2005 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM509 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2007 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM514 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2014 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM515 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2015 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM516 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2016 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM517 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2018 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM518 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2021 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM520 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2024 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM522 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2026 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM523 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2027 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM527 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2033 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM528 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2034 Defence Helicopter Flying School
ZM529 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 2038 Defence Helicopter Flying School
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Post by Beemer on Oct 29, 2019 23:37:12 GMT 1
 ZM528/28 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 by Beemer328i, on Flickr  ZM522/22 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 by Beemer328i, on Flickr  ZM522/22 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 hoisting by Beemer328i, on Flickr  ZM517/17 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 by Beemer328i, on Flickr  ZM517/17 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 hoisting by Beemer328i, on Flickr  ZM515/15 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 by Beemer328i, on Flickr  ZM514/14 Airbus Helicopters H135 Juno HT.1 by Beemer328i, on Flickr  XX224 Hawk T.1 by Beemer328i, on Flickr  Two Tocanos by Beemer328i, on Flickr  G-EVAA Rotorsport UK Cavalon by Beemer328i, on Flickr  De-icing the runway by Beemer328i, on Flickr  Cow shed now but what use before ? by Beemer328i, on Flickr Beemer |
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Post by viscount on Oct 30, 2019 9:48:44 GMT 1
That final photo shows gun firing butts I reckon.
That Hawk T.1 must have been there for some time to still be in 208 Sqdn markings.
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Post by Beemer on Oct 30, 2019 10:59:43 GMT 1
It arrived at Shawbury on 06-09-2012, Brian.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2019 16:19:37 GMT 1
That final photo shows gun firing butts I reckon.
That Hawk T.1 must have been there for some time to still be in 208 Sqdn markings. Wasn't there one at the bottom end of the old airfield near Speke Hall? I think they used to keep the grass-cutting equipment in it. For those not familiar with a gun-firing butts, the aircraft would park up facing them and then fire off some cannon to check the accuracy of them. It seems logical that there would have been one there, close to the shadow factory. I think it can be seen in this photo above the fuselage of G-AOBN:  |
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Post by Beemer on Oct 30, 2019 23:30:10 GMT 1
Viscount mentioned the butts in a story on the Avro Avian in 2014.
However, the Avian fuselage and two wings were taken over by the Fire Service and dumped in some old firing butts pending incineration.
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Post by viscount on Oct 31, 2019 0:00:35 GMT 1
Those firing butts mentioned in the Avro Avian G-EBZM story were at Manchester Airport.
As far as I am aware the 'building' was filled with a bank of sand to stop the bullets safely. Fighter aircraft would be raised with a trestle under the tail wheel to represent flying attitude and the guns test fired. Necessary to not only check the ability to fire, but principally check that the guns were properly angled within the wings as in fighter aircraft the guns were positioned so that they all concentrated fire at one point, a set distance ahead of the aircraft, they did not fire simply just straight ahead. Presumably also the guns needed to be aligned with the gun sight too.
As pointed out earlier, the former 'firing butts' at Speke lasted into the 1960s, they were still there well beyond north airfield closure in 1986, indeed I am fairly certain into this Century and may still be there in the shrubs that have grown up in an area of no-mans-land around the Speke Hall boundary.
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Post by jetdragon on Oct 31, 2019 2:40:26 GMT 1
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Post by scarecrow on May 2, 2020 15:10:27 GMT 1
The de icing was in fact carrying out survey work on the runways.
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