agripper Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Whilst trying to find any aircraft scrap yeards on the net and found on google maps images of manston airfield. To the North east of the airfield there a few airframes a few which look like they are on the firedump. The question is are the airframes scrap, being stored, or being used for fire crew training. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=51.354738,+1.348228&vps=1&jsv=200b&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=11.823255,39.331055&ie=UTF8&geocode=FXKcDwMdhJIUAA&split=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevor pitman Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Manston was the place were airfield fire crews were trained. Certainly when I served RAF firemen were trained there. I would suggest these are training aids although I can see some purpose steel made rigs which tend to last longer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topdog Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 A few years ago a mate of mine on the RAF police security let me have a look over them one evening. There were 3 Phantoms in fairly good nick ie instruments and bang seats still there - but the control columns had been removed. One of them was ZE 360 - Flight Lieutenant Hargreaves. There were also a Wessex and a Jet Provost there. He offered me the control column from the JP but I didn't take it.........OH well. I think they have burned all the Phantoms now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markheliops Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 They are training aids for the fire crews - Kent fire service use a number of facilities at Manston now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizfreeq Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 This is the DFSCTE-Defence Fire Services Central Training Establishment. Not sure how many have survived but the following were present a couple of years back: WK124 CANBERRA TT18 XR503 WESSEX HC2 XS714 DOMINIE T1 XV411 PHANTOM FGR2 XV864 BUCCANEER S2B XW870 GAZELLE HT3 XX116 JAGUARGR3A XX655 BULLDOG T1 XZ966 HARRIER GR3 ZE360 F-4J(UK) They have also just had a Nimrod delivered,though I cannot remember which airframe it was. Opposite there are two very good museums,well worth a visit. Cheers Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Drake Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Hi all, For those interested in a/c wrecks / fire hulks, this link should take you to Predannack. http://www.targeta.co.uk/predannack.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiler Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Wow, that Canberra is in a very sorry state! It's an ex- A&AEE Boscombe Down Aircraft (where I work, only it's sadly long since lost the moniker of A&AEE) and I think it might have been laterly used for icing trials. I might be completely wrong of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Hall Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Theres some wrecks at North Luffanham and the airfield is open for people to walk around. The F700s were burned years ago (They shouldn't have been) and the wrecks have been used for EOD training. Check it out on google maps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvinthemartian Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Just adding on a bit about North Luffenham, when I was a space cadet in the 1990's, we had a weekend camp over there, and I can remember climbing over a Sea Vixen FAW 1 of which there were 3 on the airfield. Also a sorry looking Jet Provost on one of the pans, and a Whirlwind over near the woods. We had to camp in these woods one night in make shift bivvies, and had a large fire going. Some one had taken a piece of the Whirlwind fuselage and dumped it on the fire. It took a long time to ignite but bu99er when it lit the whole area was like day light!!! I guess a lot of magnesium in the aluminium. Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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