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bomb rack

Postby Bovril » Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:51 am

i've asked this in the past... anyone got a bomb rack going begging?
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Re: bomb rack

Postby IanM » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:29 am

Let me guess, you've found 7, 1000lb ers on Ebay and just need somewhere to put them?? :P
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Re: bomb rack

Postby Wedgy » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:35 am

Any particuar spec Bovil? :)
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Re: bomb rack

Postby IanM » Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:47 am

I have a toast rack, will that do? :))

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Re: bomb rack

Postby Bovril » Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:48 am

i'd like to mock up 7 1000lb'rs :D


Wedgy wrote:Any particuar spec Bovil? :)
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Re: bomb rack

Postby Gully » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:09 am

Guessing you may be after one of these...

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Would have thought a Lincolnshire scrap yard was the most likely place to find one these days, although I'll keep an eye out at Woodford in July ;) .

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Re: bomb rack

Postby IanM » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:24 am

Isn't there a preserved Vulcan somewhere with one in??

ETA: Found it, XM594 at Newark

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Re: bomb rack

Postby Gully » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:27 am

My pictures were taken at Hendon, where the bomb rack sits on the ground beneath XL318, along with 21 1000lb bombs! If you've no other options Bovril, you could always go and ask them if you can have a quick measure up!!

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Re: bomb rack

Postby IanM » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:32 am

Shirley there must be some sat around somewhere? What did the RAF do with them after the Falklands? Send them back to the scrapyard they found them in??

Lightning Andy is an engineer, maybe he'll knock a few up for you after he's finished with his batteries on wheels? :D :p :p
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Re: bomb rack

Postby Sooty655 » Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:45 pm

Gully wrote: you could always go and ask them if you can have a quick measure up!!

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Did that last year, but a real one would be better if we can find one. We have a working bomb hoist, but nothing for it to lift.
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Re: bomb rack

Postby Pujgnie » Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:51 pm

At least the dreaded 'P' word wasn't requested....... phew !!!
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Re: bomb rack

Postby Dan4th » Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:53 pm

EYE know where there's one!!!!!!!!

('P' that is.....)

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Re: bomb rack

Postby Gully » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:50 pm

As I say, I'll ask the question at Woodford during the VTSC trip in July! For a bomb rack, that is, not panniers... ;) :D

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