Im in blackpool, but also next to warton aerodrome which is an assembly and testing place for RAF planes.

Well here is one.

http://i46.tinypic.com/1688mjd.jpg

ouragan ?
Lockheed T33 Shooting Star?

That's a good choice. I would have said something along the lines of say a P/F-80. But that would have been my second choice. :D

but the Lockheed have the jet outtake near the tail end... :(

I got some insider intel on this, if you're interested... ;)

The majority of our Chinooks are currently grounded from combat operations thanks to software. You see it's a rule that the software for primary and secondary systems have to be developed by different companies, as then it is highly unlikely that the same bugs or problems will be present in both systems. So if one fails you can be reasonably sure the back-up will function.

But it turns out that the guys that did some of the software for primary and back-up systems both went to the same university and learned the same things from the same teachers, so make the same design mistakes. I don't know what the systems were or how many of them there are. Could be just one system, could be all of them... But whatever - a lot of Chinooks are grounded.


P.S: now I have an opportunity to post in here without being off-topic I can finally congratulate you on keeping a thread on topic and civil for soooo many pages. WP ;)

looks like its in a anti nuclear flash scheme, i would say TSR2 but its the wrong shape.

Got me stumped!!

look how far back the wings are, narrows down the possibilities a bit, then you have the colour scheme.....

I have no idea. Its been rattling my brain for some time but i've not got the foggiest. Each time i think of something i then see the pic and realise it isnt what i was thinking because it has a unique shape to it.

to me it has the look of a lockheed but i just cannot say which one.

Its gotta be a lockheed surely lol

Looks like a TS-11 Iskra?