NIMROD MRA4 PA5 ZJ515 'B' Landing at BAE SYSTEMS Woodford (EGCD)

NIMROD MRA4 PA5 returns to BAE Woodford on its second and ultimately last flight after being painted at Air Livery based at Manchester Airport.
At the time of filming it would be another 6 months before the Government scrapped the project and this frame would be cut up 6 months after that announcement.
The nose section was not scrapped and to my knowledge ended up at RAF Cranfield.

[@user-dg3we5qn6e]

Absolute shocker it was ever scrapped looked class was class

[@wolverine556]

Did anyone notice the helicopter cloud at 3.31 above the control tower?

[@bikerpeavey]

Well spotted

[@RichieWellock]

World worst plane by such a inovative past of A V Roe , so wish the the goverment then had got rid of the gr4 plan years before they did. Poor plane built on a realy brillant concept and great name of the Nimrod of the past. Shame it cost so much and most people will never know the reality of its departure.

[@hiroshikangaroo]

NIMROD so good. I'm Very disappointing.

[@tjp353]

While I was disappointed when the MRA4 was scrapped, it should never have got off the drawing board in the first place. The aircraft it was based on was already a dinosaur in the early 70s, when the MR1 was entering service. When the MR2 was approaching retirement, it should have been replaced by an all new design. We could have partnered with Japan on their Kawasaki P1 program. The Nimrod, based on the Comet 4, should never have been considered for such an extensive modification program to create the MRA4, 50 - 60 years after the Comet was designed, using fuselages built in the late 60s.

[@stephenskinner3851]

You mean like the Boeing 707? You're talking twaddle.

[@landroversrs1]

I was told that it was full design faults & would of cost a further £1bn at least to correct them.

[@RingwayManchester]

Nice :) What is in the bottom left hand corner at 1:27??

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

In the right hand corner at about 1:28 there's what appears to be a small out of focus flock of birds.

[@LaveryTribe]

I watched PA5 arrive at Woodford as an MR2 in November 1999. She was the first aircraft I worked on during my time there. Subsequently worked on PA1, 2 & 3 before leaving the UK to move to New Zealand. Biggest moment for me was the flight of PA1. If people realised the amount of work that went into getting the MRA4 airborne, it would never have been scrapped. Tory lunatics!

[@Millerman77]

And that's a Tory Government for you - look at the American "Sentinel" shite we've got now - disgraceful!

[@Robsta1974]

as RAF we were surprised at the day we got told its gone, up until D-Day we thought it would be safe , thats at least what we were told, But afterwords it was head of BAE that cancelled it, dfirectly to PM. The Army and RAF and NAVY all wanted it . Before the cancellation it was the Friday before the Pm took advice from BAE, it was all a go but politics we all know.

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

I so miss Woodford Airport. My friends and I riding our bikes there from our homes Bramhall to watch the Vulcans taking off and landing. Wonderful site. Now most of it is being developed into a bloody housing estate. Shame. Always thought it could have been developed into Manchester's second airport rather than the drastic expanding of Ringway especially as now they've finally built the bypass from High Lane to Ringway Road it would have took barely 10 minutes to drive between the two.

[@JerolfHardens]

I agree, well actually it would be Stockport airport

[@hxor]

NIMROD MRA4 PA5, De Havliland comet...It's a shame really :)

[@RFSA180]

The project should never have got this far. Ever.