Thorpe Camp.

[Hihonyr8811]

I went to Thorpe Camp visitors centre today (which is between Woodhall Spa and Coningby/Tattershall at Tattershall Thorpe). Been meaning to go back for a long time.
Although it kind of backfired as there were signs saying no photography allowed so I only managed a few pics and no flash so pretty poor quality.

I also managed to pick the day they were hosting the Boston classic car club lol.











XM192









It really is worth a visit, It's the domestic site to what was RAF Woodhall Spa, and there's a lot of info to take in.

[Mayfly]

I've never been Helen - must rectify that - is open every day?

[Hihonyr8811]

It's only open Sundays April to October, as well as bank holiday Mondays and Wednesdays in July. 2pm till 5pm.
Which is why It's taken me 3 years to get back as it never seems to be open

Although they have a couple of upcoming car boots sales (the only one I can remember off the top of my head if July 30th as it's my birthday ) but no ida if you can go around the museum or not.

[Jigsaw]

Pretty good pics considering you obeyed the signs

[Wedgy]

Nice pics

XM192 doesn't look too shabby

[Thumper]

Great pics Helen!

When I went it wasn't open so I only got this 1 pic of XM192, this was summer 2006



She looks good from a distance but when you get close enough you can see it looks like a blind 1 handed monkey cut the wings and tail off and then Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen used some polyfiller to stick them back on again

[Hihonyr8811]

She looks better now (although not much you can do about te cut lines ), they really do look after her they cover her up in bad weather, and as you can see, they're tarting her up a bit and they can apply power to bits (altough I don't know what lol ).
I'm just gald that she's probably there to stay (going to be a job to move her in future lol).

[Wedgy]

I was just about to say ... either my monitor at work is cr@p, or she looks better these days

[Hihonyr8811]

A quick update on 192, when I passed by today she now has a kind of mint green tail fin
Looks, erm, interesting.
Anyone shed any light on it?
Squadron colours or something?

[Thumper]

Leprechaun?

Glad she's looking better than when I last saw her.

[Mayfly]

Could it be some sort of primer Helen - or does it look more like a finish?

[Hihonyr8811]

I couldn't tell, by the time I realised somethig was different we had gone past
I never thought of primer.

Those pesky Leprechauns get everywhere

Will try and stop by on Friday after shopping and get a couple of pics

[Mayfly]

Is Coningsby runway closed tomorrow?

[Hihonyr8811]

Apparently it's a base training day so yeah I think so, other than QRA I guess.

Bet the BBMF are miffed.
They're running out of time to get the Lanc air tests in before Duxford

[Mayfly]

Evidently they got the 'bit' today - but I don't know for sure - the engineers said on Friday night it shouldn't take long to replace once they have it.

[Hihonyr8811]

That's good, should be ready to test on wednesday then, unless they can do ground runs tomorrow???

I don't really know what it means when it says base closed lol