| Warspite1 | 18 Apr 2023 9:44 a.m. PST |
Sitting in a quiet village in Norfolk, UK, someone has an almost complete SEPECAT Jaguar sitting at the edge of a field. Ex- 16 Squadron RAF (Coltishall) but repainted when it became a gate guardian at RAF Shoreham. YouTube link The aircraft is approachable and donations are invited for the RAF Benevolent Fund. Still photos here from 2020: link Barry |
79thPA  | 18 Apr 2023 11:13 a.m. PST |
Very cool. The idiots around here would vandalize that in a heartbeat, then the scrapper would load it onto a shopping cart and take it down to the recycling place. |
| Warspite1 | 18 Apr 2023 11:59 a.m. PST |
@79thPA:
The owner is a farmer, farmers are allowed to own 12-bore shotguns.
:)
I rest my case! There will be a longer film in due course which will include this and other examples to be found in my area. We have a BTR 60 and a Cromwell, among others all at the roadside, and the remains of two Covenanters on a beach. Barry |
 ColCampbell | 18 Apr 2023 12:38 p.m. PST |
I like the "Saint" marking on the tailfin. Thanks for posting this. Jim |
| Warspite1 | 18 Apr 2023 1:08 p.m. PST |
@ColCampbell:
You are more than welcome!
I liked 'the Saint' tail fin markings as well. Barry |
| Shagnasty | 18 Apr 2023 1:46 p.m. PST |
Very cool! All my city has is a rusting choo-choo and some rotting passenger cars. |
| olicana | 19 Apr 2023 1:21 a.m. PST |
One thin the Russians do well is this kind of thing. You'll be driving down a motorway and suddenly come across a couple of WW2 aircraft on 'big sticks' either side of the road. Or, you'll round a city block and come face to face with a parked up T34. Sometimes you come across a rarity like this one which, from memory, is somewhere near the Kremlin.
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| Warspite1 | 19 Apr 2023 1:30 a.m. PST |
@Olicana:
I like the all-terrain tyres – which dune buggy did they take those off of?
Barry |
| Stoppage | 19 Apr 2023 2:19 a.m. PST |
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 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 19 Apr 2023 4:01 a.m. PST |
Just south of here (DFW) if I remember right there was an F86 sitting in a company parking lot. A friend says somewhere in the Midwest someone has a 5"/38 twin mount in his front yard. |
| Andrew LA | 19 Apr 2023 6:41 a.m. PST |
I live in Johannesburg, South Africa which is 600km from the sea. Near my old office in an industrial area one of the office complexes has the full gun turret with the 76mm cannon from an old South African Navy Minister class Strikecraft (the design was based on the Israeli Reshef class missile boats) mounted on a concrete block. |
 enfant perdus | 19 Apr 2023 10:50 a.m. PST |
Thanks Warspite1. I'm a big fan of RAF and FAA aircraft of the Cold War and it was nice to see this beauty is in good hands. |
| Warspite1 | 19 Apr 2023 1:49 p.m. PST |
@enfant perdus:
You are most welcome.
B |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 19 Apr 2023 10:17 p.m. PST |
I'm with ColCampbell on the Saint logo. |
| Michigan Slim | 07 Jun 2023 9:29 a.m. PST |
When I was in Perm Russia in 2000 in the midst of adopting a brother and sister, my guide took me to a museum--no admittance to the building, unfortunately--with pristine models of the AFVs built in or around Perm during WWII. It was really cool seeing them as they must have looked like rolling out of the factories, except that there were no signs of fast-but-dirty manufacture, they were carefully painted (no sloppy work allowed!), and the tires and treads had never been driven anywhere. He would then have taken me to a similar display of wartime aircraft, but we ran out of time [gnashing of teeth]. |
