UKMIL Nimrod AEW

[Roger]

To me the Vulcan is as beautiful and impressive as the Lancaster. I remember seeing maybe 20 of them passing overhead in 82, bound for Avro Woodford (just up the road) for bomb rack modifications for the Stanley mission.

 

[peter12213]

Victor, Valiant and Vulcan I personally loved them all and Roger that must have been a sight to behold mate!:salute:

 

[Tweek]

Nimrods are lovely old things. Elegant shape, loud, and smoky as hell (gotta love the Spey). Vulcans, Victors, Jaguars, Hunters - also lovely!

 

[Quixoticish]

Never liked the Victor. The front end looks silly. Like a 1920s cartoon spaceship.

Whilst I wouldn't describe it's delightful avant-garde stylings as a "1920's cartoon spaceship" it certainly has a healthy dose of retro-futurism about it, it wouldn't look out of place in Flash Gordon.

And that is precisely why I love it so.

 

[spotlope]

I think the Comet is one of the most graceful tubeliners to ever take wing. The only thing that holds it back a bit is the old-school tail, but that's part of its charm as well. Then again, I was raised in an Anglophile household by a Jag-loving father.

This bird? Looks like a Comet that's developed some rather advanced tumors. I hope the surgery goes well...

 

[Roger]

I have to apologise to ijay for going so off topic! I have the UKMIL Nimrod and it's a well done model Mea culpa!

 

[CG_1976]

I just love the UKMIL Nimrod. I think its a beautiful aircraft. They have earned there place with the RAF.

 

[UKVoodoo]

Im going opposite end of the scale I loved the fugly Buccaneer and just how well UK pilots pushed it lower then humanly possible

As for the Nimrod AEW I loved this version compared to the currant MR2 and MR4 versions

 

[Matt Wynn]

yeah all the nimrods have a home on my sim i love them all, and bucc... now theres a beautiful aircraft!

 

[ijay]

I have to apologise to ijay for going so off topic! I have the UKMIL Nimrod and it's a well done model Mea culpa!

No problem, I have all the UKMIL Nimrods,all of which will have a permanent place on my hard drive. I have a particular fondness for the Nimrod as i live close to Newquay Airport which, as RAF ST.Mawgan was home to 42 Squadron who flew Nimrods so they were a regular sight in the skies around here. The Comet was a beautiful aircraft as is the Nimrod, but the AEW version just doesn't "do it" for me!
One of my favourite things about SOH is the way the discussions tend to go off topic:isadizzy:

 

[centuryseries]

At the Waddington airshow last year one of the crew men was showing off the camera pod under the wing's display inside the cabin and I was amazed at how they have crammed in a fair amount of new technology into such an old airframe, I guess on that level it's comparable to that other veteran that never dies, the B-52.

It's just a shame that we didn't see sense and buy an off the shelf airliner and refit it to do the same job, rather than soldier on with an airframe with old tech problems.

Still I love it :mixedsmi:

 

[Lanc123]

Aew

Hawker Hunter. And you're just biased, anyway.

Any yes calypsos, but there's an enduring urban legend that the USAF rapidly hushed up one of the Nimrod testbeds happily tracking a supposedly undetectable stealth demonstration flight for several hundred miles.

Whether it's true or not I don't know, but it's a good story. :d

Speaking as an ex Nimrod AEW flight test observer, I can confirm that it is not urban legend but true, as I was on board at the time. Though it was not 700 miles it was significant.
Shame it was cancelled as at the time the program had finally managed to iron out the major bugs caused by the changing RAF baseline specifications.