48-545: Clipstone is a former mining village in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire , England. The population of the civil parish was 3,469 at the 2001 census , increasing to 4,665 at the 2011 census , and substantially more so to 6,185 at the 2021 census . The earliest historical reference to the settlement is in the Domesday Book of 1086, where the village is mentioned as "Clipestune". Subsequent written sources use
96-549: A Mansfield-based developer, with plans are to save the headstocks and redevelop the site as a "multi-purpose leisure facility." Clipstone Colliery Sidings railway station was the station that served the mine. In 2022, ITVX show Without Sin , starring Nottinghamshire actress Vicky McClure , was partly filmed in Clipstone. Some scenes were filmed within the village, including a rave in the former colliery. Newark and Sherwood Too Many Requests If you report this error to
144-430: A crash program to bring these to operational readiness in three days. These Provost carried out ground attack sorties on insurgent targets, vectored in by helicopters that used smoke bombs to mark targets for Provosts. One Provost crashed returning from a sortie and its pilot killed. Nigeria acquired two ex-Sudan Air Force Jet Provost T.51s in 1967, using them for training and ground attack purposes against Biafra during
192-600: A flame out. The Provost were meant for pilot conversions for jets and intended as a stepping stone to introduce jet fighters to the Royal Ceylon Air Force (RCyAF). However these plans were scrapped due to defense cuts following the attempted coup in 1962 and by the late 1960s the remaining Provosts were mothballed. With the outbreak of the 1971 JVP insurrection in April 1971, the RCyAF took out its mothballed Provosts and started
240-461: A library, primary school and village hall as well as a few shops and pubs, including Clipstone Welfare , which was used for scenes in the 2007 film Control . The old Clipstone Colliery site lies within the New Clipstone area, still having the tall prominent headstocks. On the southern edge of the village is Vicar Water Country Park , developed from Vicar Water and the former spoil tips from
288-517: A series of sales tours across Europe , Canada , the United States of America , and Latin America . In June 1957, a production order was placed for the first 40 of the developed Jet Provost T3 , featuring a more powerful Armstrong Siddeley Viper jet engine, ejector seats, a redesign of the airframe, and a shortened and strengthened version of the retractable tricycle undercarriage . Percival built
336-484: A single example, which was used purely for structural tests throughout the development stages, giving the designers valuable research into what could be achieved with the basic design. On 22 June 1958, the first Jet Provost T.3 conducted its first flight. In total, 201 T3s were delivered between 1958 and 1962. The T4 followed in 1960, fitted with a more powerful variant of the Viper engine and first flown on 15 July, and this
384-403: A small coin hoard and arrowhead. The adjacent parish of Mansield Woodhouse contains a suspected Roman road (Leeming Lane), with an associated marching camp at Roman Bank. Further to the north-west a small villa site was exposed in 1780 by the antiquarian Major Hayman Rooke . Four pieces of late Saxon shelly ware pottery were recorded in 1991 during fieldwalking of Castlefield, although it
432-415: Is assumed to be a ploughed out round barrow . The National Mapping Project data as provided by English Heritage shows a number of cropmarks recorded from aerial photography in the northern quarter of Clipstone parish, representing rectilinear field systems associated with smaller stock enclosures and perhaps domestic sites. Typologically, and from their orientation, it is assumed that these are part of
480-479: Is unlikely that these represent anything more than a background scatter associated with the manuring of the open fields. These four pieces of pottery are actually Potterhanworth Ware, dating to the 13th–15th century Prior to Domesday, the two manors of Clipstone were held by Osbern and Ulsi and the value was set at 60 shillings (£3). Ulsi in particular was a reasonably wealthy landowner and held manors at Greasley , Strelley , Sutton and Hodsock. The landowner in 1086
528-575: The Duke of Portland for the production of timber. In the 1760s there were a number of prosecutions of local people for entering the forest park and causing disorders. In 1767 labourers from Warsop and Worksop were involved in the Clipstone Riot. As the Duke of Portland was at the time involved in making the place more profitable for himself, and so impacting on the timber rights of the commoners, this may have been
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#1732859376449576-472: The Nigerian Civil War . Flown both by Nigeran and mercenary pilots, they proved effective as in both roles, but efforts to obtain more Jet Provosts directly from Britain failed. The Jet Provost was withdrawn from RAF service during the early 1990s, having been replaced by the newer turboprop -powered Short Tucano . Ab initio training had reverted to piston-engined aircraft in the early 1970s, using
624-704: The Royal Air Force College at RAF Cranwell , Lincolnshire; by No. 1 Flying Training School at RAF Linton-on-Ouse , Yorkshire; 3FTS at RAF Leeming , Yorkshire; 6FTS at RAF Acklington , Northumberland; and 7FTS at RAF Church Fenton , Yorkshire. The twin-seated side by side variant was also used at RAF Brawdy in Wales to train Forward Air Controllers . The later T4 was fitted with the more powerful Viper A.S.V. 11 of 2,500 lbs static thrust and first flew on 15 July 1960. It quickly entered service with
672-583: The armistice troops from the Queens Royal West Surrey 4th/5th Reserve Battalion and the York and Lancaster Regiment were involved in a mutinous riot at the camp, following disquiet at the slow rate of being demobilised . Plans were started in 2013 to provide a memorial to those who trained in Clipstone. The pit closed in April 2003. Since 1993 it had been owned by RJB Mining (later UK Coal ). The present headstocks , Grade Two listed structures, were at
720-559: The Jet Provost necessitated the addition of an oxygen system in the cockpit, which was unpressurised on early production aircraft. The Jet Provost has an uncomplicated structure, the airframe being based on the Percival Provost, albeit being strengthened in key areas such as the main wing spar and featuring a substantially different undercarriage arrangement. It possesses an all-metal stressed-skin fuselage built in two sections,
768-647: The Percival Provost as possible, including the tail surfaces , main planes and main undercarriage legs, to speed development through to the prototype stage. The initial design work was performed as a private venture, independent of any service requirement; in March 1953, sponsorship from the British Government to support the development was made available as a result of interest from the Ministry of Supply . That same month, an order for service-test quantity of Jet Provosts
816-741: The RAAF ultimately decided to retain the de Havilland Vampire to fulfill its requirements for a jet-powered trainer, and later replaced its Vampires with the Italian-built Aermacchi MB-326 during the late 1960s instead. The sole aircraft itself was retained, being presented to the Sydney Technical College for use as an instructional airframe, and was later preserved. Ceylon ordered 12 Jet Provost T51, these went into operational service in early 1960, one crashed in February 1960 following
864-630: The T1 during late 1955 at No. 2 Flying Training School at RAF Hullavington , the RAF formally accepted the type in 1957. The first production version was the T3, powered by the Viper 102, and this entered service with No. 2 FTS, located at RAF Syerston , during June 1959, when deliveries commenced from the Hunting Aircraft factory at Luton airport . The T3 was also operated by Central Flying School at RAF Little Rissington ;
912-600: The T5 included the RAFs Central Flying School and No. 1, No. 3 and No. 6 Flying Training Schools. Besides service with the RAF, the Jet Provost found success in export markets. A single Jet Provost T2 was exported to Australia and was operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to evaluate the type for the purpose of providing 'all-through' jet-based training. Following a six-month evaluation period,
960-578: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 394861982 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:49:36 GMT BAC Jet Provost The BAC Jet Provost is a British jet trainer aircraft that was in use with the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1955 to 1993. It was originally developed by Hunting Percival from
1008-462: The aircraft's exterior provides access for maintenance and servicing. The Jet Provost is equipped with a single Armstrong Siddeley Viper 101 turbojet engine, which is mounted behind the cockpit in a roomy stainless steel -lined engine bay upon a secondary steel-tube structure. Air is fed to the engine by a pair of ram-air intakes set on either side of the aircraft's forward fuselage connected via sharply-curving ducts to converge just forward of
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#17328593764491056-405: The airframe via two inset hinges each. The nose contains a hinged metal assembly, housing the radio , batteries, and other electronic equipment, and is easily serviceable by ground crew. All fuel tankage is housed within the wings. Where possible, all components used were designed to maximized interchangeability and to conform with international standardisation; a total of 49 service panels across
1104-729: The airframe was developed as the BAC Strikemaster . The BAC Jet Provost is a dedicated jet-powered trainer aircraft; according to aviation publication Flight International , it has the distinction of being the first ab initio jet trainer to be standardised by any air force. As designed, it was intended for the Jet Provost to replace, rather than accompany, the use of piston-engine trainer aircraft. The Jet Provost incorporates numerous features to support students during training. The aerodynamic design deliberately avoids speed, instead focusing on favourable handling characteristics and ease of recovery from stall and spin conditions. An emphasis
1152-480: The brickwork plan field system from the late Iron Age , which stretches across the Sherwood Sandstones. Pottery of the period is known from Clipstone due to Philip Rahtz 's excavation in 1956 and Trent and Peak Archaeology's watching brief and fieldwalking in 1991, however the context of the finds has never been understood. There have also been metal detector finds within the parish of two Roman brooches and
1200-407: The cause of the riots. On November 12 1965 BAC Jet Provost XM406 crashed, from RAF Syerston . Pilot Officer I.G. Parfitt ejected. Clipstone is split into two civil parish areas – New Clipstone , approximately four miles from Mansfield town, and Kings Clipstone slightly further away, formerly known as Old Clipstone until 2003 when the ancient name of Kings Clipstone was resurrected and it
1248-546: The colliery, forming a landscape of hills and ponds with a controversial 'Golden Hand' sculpture, said to represent the village's mining heritage. Most of the village is within Newark and Sherwood district council area, with a small section in the west near Forest Town in the Mansfield council area. The Garibaldi College is just inside Mansfield district. A large modern housing development close to New Clipstone but previously considered as part of 'Old Clipstone'/Kings Clipstone
1296-427: The design studies that would ultimately lead to the Jet Provost. At the time, the company was in the process of establishing mass production for the earlier piston-engined Percival Provost basic trainer, but had anticipated that demand for a jet-powered trainer aircraft would be on the horizon. The design team aimed to produce an aircraft capable of equalling the handling characteristics of operational jet fighters of
1344-611: The design. Amongst the changes made was an overall smoothing of the fuselage lines, hydraulic systems being substituted for pneumatic counterparts, and the addition of a dorsal fillet ; the new model was designated as the Jet Provost T2 . On 1 September 1955, the first Jet Provost T2 made its first flight. This variant was used only for development work; in addition to seeing use at Hullavington, three Jet Provost T2s were dispatched overseas for winterization trials in Scandinavia and
1392-506: The earlier piston engine -powered Percival Provost basic trainer, and later produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). In addition to the multiple RAF orders, the Jet Provost, sometimes with light armament, was exported to many air forces worldwide. The design was also further developed into a more heavily armed ground attack variant under the name BAC Strikemaster . In early 1951, Hunting Percival began work on
1440-401: The engine itself. As supplied, each engine is delivered as a compact engine-change unit, comprising the engine itself, accessories, and oil tank. Both the hydraulic and electrical systems were driven via a fuselage-mounted accessories gearbox connected to the Viper engine by a telescopic drive. One particularly favourable aspect of the Viper engine is the low maintenance demands imposed for
1488-547: The era while also possessing modest approach and stall speeds and remaining simple to handle, as opposed to aiming to obtain maximum performance. During the early design process, a series of increasingly frequent liaisons with RAF Flying Training Command took place, helping to gauge the considerations required to succeed in aspects of the proposed aircraft's design, such as instructional processes and maintenance requirements. During development, Hunting Percival had intentionally reused as many existing components and subsystems of
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1536-460: The era. Engine ignition is achieved via an electric starter system, the engine controls have been described as being of a conventional nature. The Jet Provost proved to be a capable trainer, being used in the ab initio Basic Trainer role from the outset (pilots progressed to the de Havilland Vampire and later the Folland Gnat for Advanced Jet Training). After successful acceptance trials of
1584-484: The forms "Clipestone", "Clippeston", "Clipiston". The place-name Clipstone seems to contain an Old Norse personal name, Klyppr , with tun (Old English), an enclosure or farmstead, so 'Klyppr's farm or settlement'. The earliest date-able material from Clipstone is from the Bronze Age . These pieces of material were a spearhead and an arrowhead. There is also a suspected ring ditch in the vicinity of New Clipstone which
1632-421: The forward section stretching from the rear of the engine bay to the nose comprises a double-frame to absorb the wing and engine loads, while the rear fuselage section uses an orthodox semi-monocoque structure. Major loads across the fuselage are supported by a combination of four longerons and a single longitudinal beam across the upper-center line. The ailerons , elevators , and rudder are all attached to
1680-475: The pre-production aircraft were assigned for the first stage of service trials with the Central Flying School (CFS) of the RAF to determine the value of the Jet Provost in the ab initio training role and to develop a syllabus for the training program. During the second stage of CFS trials using the same three aircraft, actual students were introduced to the type for practical evaluation purposes, which
1728-518: The pupil-instructor pairing. The dual flight controls employs conventional manually-controlled flight control surfaces via a cable-and- tie rod arrangement. A key feature for the era amongst the fittings in the cockpit is the Centralized Warning Panel , which alerts the pilots in the event of a number of unfavourable or hazardous conditions being detected, such as icing conditions , fire, and oxygen failure. The high-flying capabilities of
1776-557: The time of completion in 1953 the tallest in Europe. They can be seen from miles around. There were a number of attempts by then-owners, Welbeck Estates , to demolish due to the expense of the upkeep. During September 2014, an epetition was submitted to the British government, to raise public support and awareness, which ran until March 2015. In December 2020 it was announced that the buildings, headstocks and surrounding land had been purchased by
1824-605: The units listed above. The T5 variant was fitted with the Viper 201 and cockpit pressurisation. These developments encouraged the RAF to utilise the Jet Provost in a number of different roles besides basic training. With a top speed of 440 mph, excellent maneuverability, mechanical reliability and low operating costs, the Jet Provost was utilized as an aerobatic aircraft, air warfare and tactical weapons training as well as advanced training. The first T5 made its maiden flight on 28 February 1967 and deliveries from BAC ' s Warton factory commenced on 3 September 1969. Operators of
1872-404: The village, which were used by royal hunting parties. Moreover, it is said that King John held a parliament at the nearby Parliament Oak in 1212, and also Edward I in 1290. The ruin appeared on an episode of the archaeological TV show Time Team . George Sitwell , ironmaster mined iron locally and built a furnace here in the 17th century. In 1767 much of the local forest was managed by
1920-541: Was Roger de Busli , one of the great Norman landowners who held 163 estates in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and south Yorkshire. King John's Palace is the ruined walls of a former medieval royal residence previously used for hunting trips into Sherwood Forest near to Kings Clipstone. While there is no conclusive proof of the medieval royal residence being built by King John , there were known to be 1400 acres of forested deer park (and 70 acres of rabbit warrens) next to
1968-735: Was abandoned following the outbreak of the First World War . The Duke of Portland offered the land for use as a military training camp, which was eventually opened in February, 1915. The first troops stationed there were the Royal Fusiliers . At its height the camp could accommodate 30,000 soldiers. The camp had segregated 'lines' for whole individual battalions, self-contained with sleeping quarters, cook houses, mess rooms and parade grounds. Training facilities included mock-trenches, gunnery ranges and recreation with swimming in Vicar's Pond . Following
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2016-476: Was followed by the pressurised T5 in 1967. The T51 was an armed export version, sold to Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka ), Kuwait and Sudan. It was armed with two 7.7-mm (0.303-inch) machine guns . The T52 was another export version sold to Iraq, South Yemen , Sudan and Venezuela, with the same armament as the T51. The T55 was the final armed export version which was sold to Sudan. A more heavily armed variant of
2064-437: Was performed at RAF Hullavington until the successful completion of trials on 2 July 1956. According to feedback from CFS examiners, the Jet Provost had noticeably improved the performance of students during its trial deployment. As a result of the results and responses produced from the trials performed using the pre-production aircraft, Hunting Percival proceeded to develop and incorporate several different improvements upon
2112-401: Was placed on flexibility, enabling use of the type throughout a range of training operations. The cockpit of the Jet Provost, and much of the operational equipment fittings, is essentially identical to that of the preceding Percival Provost . It features a side-by-side seating arrangement, both positions being fitted with duplicated flight controls and instrumentation, which is well suited to
2160-401: Was received. On 26 June 1954, the prototype XD674 conducted its maiden flight from the factory at Luton Airport , flown by Dick Wheldon. A series of seven flights were flown in quick succession over the following three days. By early November 1954, a total of 123 flying hours had been accumulated by the prototype during Hunting Percival's own flight test program, after which the prototype
2208-402: Was reclassified as being in Clipstone after a boundary realignment in late 2009. The local football team is Clipstone Welfare . The village is close to Sherwood Forest . Nearby is the medium-wave transmitter for Radio Nottingham . There is also a slaughterhouse. Located on what was to become Clipstone Colliery, Clipstone Camp was established when work on developing the mine, started in 1912,
2256-540: Was split off administratively. Both settlements lie alongside the B6030 road , with a small section known locally as the Rat Hole. Kings Clipstone is the oldest part in a rural setting with some old stone buildings, noted for its relatively 'undeveloped' character. The local Dog and Duck pub is the only social place to meet. New Clipstone (commonly known as just 'Clipstone') is the most diverse area with both old and new homes,
2304-484: Was submitted for official trials at RAF Boscombe Down . While testing proved the overall performance of the Jet Provost to be satisfactory, refinements were made, such as shortening the legs of the landing gear for a smoother ride when deployed at semi-prepared airstrips. On 19 February 1955, the first of ten pre-production aircraft, designated as the Jet Provost T1 , performed its first flight. In May 1955, three of
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