A sad sight, the Vulcan at Woodford is looking very much worse for wear and neglect after being deemed unsafe to work on a few years ago, sadly the scrapman's axe cannot be far away for this Cold War Icon
Taken while the Nimrod AEW system was still undergoing trials and testing. The whole project was finally canceled in December 1986, costing the British taxpayer approximately £1Billion.
A 20(R) Sqdn Harrier GR7 taxies in at the 94 show arrivals day at Bae Woodford, note the aircraft is still in the original GR5/7 drab green colour scheme, scanned from a 6x4 print
The "White Falcon" display jet for 1998 show season from 10 Wing / 31 Smaldeel celebrating 20 years of F16 operations by 10 Wing/Belgian AF is seen here arriving at Woodford a couple of days before the show