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The Navy Wings Collection is a civilian-run naval aviation heritage organization based at the Royal Navy aerodrome, RNAS Yeovilton, in Somerset, England. They inherited the mantle of the famed Royal Navy Historic Flight (RNHF) at its disbandment in 2019, and continue to maintain and operate the surviving RNHF fleet from the same hangars that organization once did, but funded by a charitable entity, the Fly Navy Heritage Trust. Navy Wings also involves other privately-owned aircraft with a British naval pedigree under the same umbrella. The past couple of years have been challenging for this important outfit though, not least because of the difficulties which the global pandemic has presented, but also because of a recent accident involving their Hawker Sea Fury T.20 VX281. Thankfully, neither of the aircrew were seriously injured during VX281's forced landing, but the historic fighter incurred significant structural damage and will need a major rebuild - and major financing - befo
Published:
11:18 AM February 16, 2021
Updated:
11:51 AM February 16, 2021
Aircraft recovery technicians begin dismantling the Victor gate guardian at RAF Marham ready to be scrapped
- Credit: SAC Joshua Dines
Plane crash specialists were called on to remove a vintage bomber from a Norfolk air base.
The Cold War Victor had stood as gate guardian at RAF Marham since it was retired from service in the early 1990s.
The Victor jet outside RAF Marham was offered for free to anyone who could remove and restore it, but was scrapped after no-one wih the means to do so came forward
- Credit: RAF Marham
Published:
11:18 AM February 16, 2021
Updated:
11:51 AM February 16, 2021
Aircraft recovery technicians begin dismantling the Victor gate guardian at RAF Marham ready to be scrapped
- Credit: SAC Joshua Dines
Plane crash specialists were called on to remove a vintage bomber from a Norfolk air base.
The Cold War Victor had stood as gate guardian at RAF Marham since it was retired from service in the early 1990s.
The Victor jet outside RAF Marham was offered for free to anyone who could remove and restore it, but was scrapped after no-one wih the means to do so came forward
- Credit: RAF Marham