RAF Waddington and all the Airingplanes

Continued.

While the rest were looking round the 5 Squadron Sentinal, Steve the Nice man showed me what the bits of old Airingplane was.
He said it was a 'Hawker Siddley Frightening' and it used to work on his squadron.
Bab's thought it was a bit Frightening because it was full of Spiders, Yuk!

Steve said I could pull this strap and the wheels would go up, I tried my best but I could not see any wheels at all!
I saw Phil and Marge having a chuckle so perhaps Steve was having me on!

This hole was huge, I bet its full of Horrid Creepy Crawleys!

Flip, I turned away and got caught in a Spiders string, hope it does not notice!
Luckily Phil pulled me clear before the spider could strike.

When Steve was not looking I sneaked under the 'No Sheep' sign, I just wanted to get a bit closer to, and touch the Frightening.
I heard Mouse saying it was an amazing airingplane and he had never touched this one so I wanted to beat him to it, he he.
Mel said he had flown in it but I don't think I believe him as Phil said he probably could not reach the pedals.

I found this Trolley with wheels, I wanted to see it move. Marge said it would be OK.
Phil said there was a Brake on the towing arm.
I said "It was not me and I didn't break anything!" I think Mouse was a bit worried though!

Mel quickly saved the day and wrapped a bit of tape round the Brake and said it would be OK.
He told me not to say anything to Steve though!

This bit was where you put the Electricians through to the Airingplane, I tried to pick it up but unfortunately it was a bit mucky and Marge got cross.
She emptied the babby wipe box to clean me off!

After that she made me get in my bag, it was a bit embracing though.
Here she is telling this bloke about the sticky out bits on the tyres that shoot the water out sideways. I think she looks pretty bored really!

After we left the Sentinals we got to Bab's favourite bit, This is a 51 Squadron Nimrod.
It is 'Most Secret' so I can't tell you anything about it but it was great fun and very high up.
My new friend 'WO Tony' said It has never ever had a proper Sheep on board neither

They don't open this window when they are flying along. WO Tony said it would be too drafty and would ruin the peelots hairstyles.
He said It was OK for me though, You can just see the Windowscreen wiper beside my ear.
Please don't talk about it to anyone because Phil said I could be sent to a tower if I gave away any "Most Secrets".

While I was looking out of the small windowscreen, WO Paul took a phornograph of all the people from Prison.
Except Marge and Calum and WO Tony of course, because I don't think they have ever been to prison, Neither has Bab's 'Thank Goodness'!

My friend WO Tony was really sad to see me go, he gave me a great big hug and made me promise to come back again one day.
He told me to ignore the men who were whistling at him, he said they would be Peeling potatoes tomorrow morning if they were not careful.
I wonder why 51 Squadron don't get Frozen Chips they don't need peeling!

Our next visit was a big Airingplane called a Vulcan, it is parked on the other side of the camp so we took WO Pauls White Van.
I sat on Mel's lap, I was a bit worried because it looked like he might doze off!

Surprise, surprise Mel was soon out like a light, Mouse says its his age and Mel has had a lot more ages than anyone else in the van, especially Calum who has only had a few ages.
I decided to help WO Paul with his directions with a bit of back seat driving

Phil said that those over there were the Airingplanes that might suck Bab's in.
Bab's was glad to just see them from our White Van, they did look big though and Marge was still going on about them!

Cor, look at this beauty. Phil says its a Vulcan and this was the same one that 'Bombed the Argies!'.
I hope that no sheep in 'Argies' got hurt when the Vulcan dropped its load!

This Airingplane is called XM607 and Marge says it flew the longest flight in the whole world just to drop its bombs on the 'Argies'
I don't know what the 'Argies' did wrong but it must have been bad for the Peelots to go all that way without any lunch!

Phil said when he was looking after XM607 'Many Moons ago', he had to tie the cover through these little holes to stop them blowing away.
Marge told me not to say who actually made the holes to tie tie it through
Phil went quite red at this point!

Marge told Phil that this hole would be an 'MOT Failure', Phil laughed.
Silly Marge, Planes don't have MOTs
Phil said he could easily weld it up with a piece of Shelving from the Prison. I don't know what shelving is but I'm sure Phil could do it!
Mel said he could do it too, but he would need a ladder to reach! Poor Mel!

The Vulcan had amazingly big wings it took Bab's ages to get to the ends, I didn't dare climb up in case I got stuck forever!
On the other hand Bab's did stand on the Tyres and that was a big mistake, Everybody had a laugh at me 'Cal' even bit his tongue laughing.
Luckily I was OK and just a little grubby but Marge did not tell me off this time!

Top Tip from Bab's, "Don't stand on Wheels"