NavList:

Frank you asked about the strange airframes at RAF Waddington.
Well spotted Frank.  I’ve not noticed those before, and I live there.  However, where’s your aircraft recognition?  Look at the deep scars on top of the fuselage just behind the trailing edge of the wing.  Either when the Airfix kits arrived there were a few bits left over, and they were just left lying around because nobody was sure what to do with them, or it and its colleagues nearby were raided in the night by agents of a foreign power doing a copycat Operation Biting, but nobody’s noticed yet. 

Alternatively, perhaps some NATO partners are still using similar types (easy to spot on RF24), and the ones at Waddington are being kept to replace bits on those.  It’s amazing where you find corrosion when you start looking very closely at aluminium alloy airframes.  It’s much easier to replace a flap with one that’s survived better elsewhere than split a corroded one apart to treat the corrosion.   Perhaps the RAF specified a higher bypass ratio engine for their aircraft with wider diameter cowlings, which is why nobody’s bothered to pinch those yet.

The photography is fairly recent too, did you notice the nine bright red Airfix models to the extreme north of the airfield.  I get woken up by those coming over the house in formation at around 250ft several times a day.  Did you also notice the visitor from RAF Cranwell overshooting about 2/3 of the way down RW20.  Dave P