Refuellers

[ianbache]

Here are a few from Valley 22/09/10 on a very wet afternoon
RAF Vs ARMY, the army tanker was here with a detachment of Lynx,s from Middle Wallop







and Valley,s own

[David Thompson]

I don't think the bowser is road worthy and is locked away in a compound adjacent to the Skegness Aerodrome .

[REF]

Taken at Cottesmore on 7 Oct. Two different refuellers, one civvie? one military? refuelling the Harrier GR.9

[mawganmad]

Two different refuellers, one civvie? one military?

Both military REF, camo one is an air deployable Dennis (used on dets & exc's, possibly RAF 1MT??), the yellow one is the standard airfield MT section MAN refueller that replaced the S26s.

[ted angus]

The Dennis's are in daily use; there are 3 versions and all are spread around our dwindling number of stations. modern vehicles tend to be far more serviceable in regular use than sitting mothballed in a depot pending a call to action.
Thanks for sharing Ref yellow is once again the favoured airfild use vehicle colour all new vehicles for uk airfield use are ordered or should i say delivered in yellow.
Ted

[mawganmad]

Hi Ted, I didn't mean the Dennis is only used for deployments, but they do deploy this type on big excerices etc.
however I have never seen them used by the base MT section of the three airfields that I have worked, ie St Mawgan, Northolt, & St Athan, but certainly that's not to say that they arn't used on the major front-line combat stations.

The MANs are used as standard station wide airfield support refuelllers, it's the same type that appears in Ians' pics above.

[ted angus]

Hi James yea understood you mate just wanted to amplify things for the lads; There were 55 of the Dennis jobs, 21 were winterised and 12 have aircon, re the 3 axle MAN - 124 is the quantity I believe the largest batch being the 2005 model.

If course the navy had to have a difference variant nothing changes there does it !!
regards TED

[mawganmad]

If course the navy had to have a difference variant nothing changes there does it !!
regards TED

Sounds about right, nothing like designing out commonality!

[mitrovitchp]

I have seen the Dennis vehicle in everyday use at Benson and Coningsby.
Regarding the MAN, the RAF and RN use the same vehicle.

[Richard Drew]

RAF and RN use the same vehicle

Are things that bad now, do the RAF have it on Monday and the navy Tuesdays!!! Its a worry these cuts