Tonight Monday 19th Feb the series “Monster Moves” covers two topics.
One is apparently the problem of getting a quantity of London Underground coaches into a sealed tunnel !!!
The other sounds far more interesting about the attempt to salvage the Fokker Monoplane from a Canadian lake. Can’t remember the location or the acft ident but I’ll be watching.
Roger Smith.
By: PaulR - 20th February 2007 at 17:29
Spotted that, chuckled.
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 20th February 2007 at 17:17
Quite – but thanks for the heads up Roger – I’d’ve missed it if it werent for your post – enjoyed the ad too..
but for my money Land Rover still cant beat the strap line from one of their older campaigns… ‘in some parts of the world a landrover is the only truck people have ever seen..’ clever…
BTW – did anyone see that the ROV was controlled by a Playstation controller!! I **** you not – kids nowadays!
TT
By: pogno - 20th February 2007 at 10:12
The expectation of lifting the whole aircraft in one piece seemed a lunatic scheme, especially as they thought the engine was still fitted.
I would have expected the remains of the wooden wings to have been brought up in nets or slings then the fuselage in sections.
Had all the signs of too much haste, no decent plan and vastly underfunded. Needed divers to do the whole job.
By: PaulR - 20th February 2007 at 09:21
Me too, they had a half assed plan, then changed it, then changed it again, then f**ked it up altogether. Submersible driver ramming the bally thing then getting all tangled up in it? Pleeeeeese! They shouldn’t be let near the plane, it needs experts to recover it.
By: Moggy C - 20th February 2007 at 01:10
The whole ‘recovery’ seemed a bit shambolic to me.
Moggy
By: ollieholmes - 19th February 2007 at 23:52
Was this project not mentioned in Flypast a few months ago?
By: Consul - 19th February 2007 at 23:17
Presumably somebody thought about the initials……..
I believe they got wind of it:D
By: Newforest - 19th February 2007 at 22:58
Here’s the website for the Canadian Fokker
Guess the website needs updating as the last entry was October 2006, hope their enthusiasm hasn’t ‘sunk’.
By: jeepman - 19th February 2007 at 22:41
Here’s the website for the Canadian Fokker
Presumably somebody thought about the initials……..
By: Newforest - 19th February 2007 at 21:55
IIRC it was near Manitoba.
Did you see the new Land Rover Disco3 ad during the first ad break? One aircraft I think was a Ryan STM but the red radial low-wing monoplane? Any ideas?
Well, Manitoba covers 650,000 sq. km. The location of the lake was 200 miles north of Winnipeg. Better luck next time about raising the fuselage.
No luck on the monoplane as adverts. are reserved for talking to the better half.
What about that BR crowd?! Was it too difficult to number the carriages one to twenty in order to get them in the hole in the right order? The mind boggles!!
By: BlueRobin - 19th February 2007 at 21:48
Here’s the website for the Canadian Fokker
By: BlueRobin - 19th February 2007 at 21:45
Well done Consul, indeed it was! Super little advert that, lots of low formation flying.
By: Consul - 19th February 2007 at 21:25
IIRC it was near Manitoba.
Did you see the new Land Rover Disco3 ad during the first ad break? One aircraft I think was a Ryan STM but the red radial low-wing monoplane? Any ideas?
I only caught a quick glimpse but was it this:
http://younkinair.com/mysteryship.htm
By: BlueRobin - 19th February 2007 at 21:10
IIRC it was near Manitoba.
Did you see the new Land Rover Disco3 ad during the first ad break? One aircraft I think was a Ryan STM but the red radial low-wing monoplane? Any ideas?
By: Bluebird Mike - 19th February 2007 at 20:59
Well, that all seemed to be a half-arsed waste of time then!
By: Newforest - 19th February 2007 at 17:08
Me too, one of the really interesting programmes on TV at the moment. Glad I’m not at home at the moment and can use someone else’s dish!:)
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