The venerable SLR

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Cinders, great images there for the family and Barry had a great sendoff too.

The Caribou was a brilliant aircraft to jump out of as well, very smooth just like the Andover in many respects. We are missing a medium service aircraft like that nowadays. All that is left is the trusty old Skyvan

Ah, the trusty Andover, going back a few years with that one Gil!

I have fond memories of the Andover's at Brize in the early 1980's.

They were superb aircraft, just the job when a Hercules was overkill.

Got rid of in the endless rounds of defence cuts to "save money" .. what a laugh, after the Andover was axed the RAF was forced to use Hercs to transport just a few pallets of gear (or small number of specialists) around Europe on the sort of short notice missions the Andover was perfect for..