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The Hawker Siddley Nimrod was a maritime Patrol aircraft which was based on the De Havilland Comet airliner. The version shown here is one of the first Nimrods, an MR1, registration XV233 which came into service with the Royal Air Force in 1969. My photo was taken about 1974 at RAF Kinloss in the north of Scotland and I was detained briefly by the RAF police for taking the picture. XV233 was converted into a MR2 version about 1976 which involved extensive modifications to the airframe and avionics. Lastly, some time after 2000 this aircraft was chosen as one to be converted again, into a MRA4 version and was given a new serial number of ZJ520. In 2010 the MRA4 version was controversially cancelled by the British government and ZJ520 was scrapped in February 2011. The last Nimrod to fly was a secret R1 signals intelligence version of which there had only ever been four. It flew into retirement in 2011. The Nimrod, in all it's variants has been regarded as one of the best aircraft of it's type (arguably the best). |
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| Author | Mike McBey |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by M McBey at https://flickr.com/photos/158652122@N02/32442526807. It was reviewed on 15 February 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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