Hi All,
The Dutch Connie is on her way to Duxford right now.
Yesterday there was to much mist at Kef. to commence the flight.
Below you see two messages I just picked up in a newsgroup:
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Hi Erik,
Further to your posting, the flight plan filed for N749NL, had it
routing over Belfast, then to the Isle of Man, on to Wallasey
( Near Liverpool ), and then just south of Manchester, to a VOR at
TRENT, and onwards to Duxford.
It was supposed to leave Keflavik at 10.00Z and was 05.15 hrs en
route to Duxford, so it would have been over the Manchester area at
about 14.35, to 14.50Z ( 15.35 Local to 1550).
Hopefully it will be the same tomorrow, and with clear skies forecast,
should make a wonderful sight.
Best wishes,
John.
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Hi Erik
I have the okay from the boss so will be leaving shortly. Just phoned
Duxford
again and they still expect it between 14:15 and 14:20 so fingers
crossed!
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Good Luck,
Leo Bonnet.
By: David Burke - 27th September 2002 at 17:46
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
Andrew – It’s because your turning it quite sharply and your using the stbd engine power to achieve this hence it tries to bend the leg.
It[‘s not unusual – infact we did a similar sharp taxying turn with a Tornado at Cottesmore and managed to take the tyre off the bead i.e deflate it.
By: SADSACK - 27th September 2002 at 08:43
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
Have you moved from Duxford then Ashley?
By: Ashley - 27th September 2002 at 07:07
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
Fantastic pics Damian…Flypast, give this man a job!
She arrived at Manston at about 5.30pm on Wednesday according to the guys at the Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Building…I went and took a peek at her through the fence…she looks gorgeous…:)
By: A330Crazy - 26th September 2002 at 15:31
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
I was just looking at the wheel in the 3rd picture, it looks as if its about to snap off… its bending a bit, anyone tell me why?
Thanx 🙂
By: Ant.H - 25th September 2002 at 19:42
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
*Thud!*(sound of my jaw hitting the floor!) Superb pics Damien,she looks bluddy gorgeous!Sadly,I coudn’t make it to Duxford,but these are compensation enough,tah muchly! 🙂
By: EHVB - 25th September 2002 at 19:40
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-09-02 AT 07:40Â PM (GMT)]I am one of the few lucky presspeople that will have an air to air encounter with the Connie coming saturday, over the North Sea while it is enroute to Holland. Maybe a P-3 Orion (born Electra and the Lockheed follow up of the Connie) will also join, for a historic vintage Lockheed formation.
Shall post the pictures saturdaynight.
By: philo - 25th September 2002 at 19:36
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
Damien,
Excellent newsworthy pictures well done,she looks beautiful, however I’m slightly confused as to where you were when taking pictures 2 & 3 in the sequence. Its seems as if you were ‘live’ side, but the backgound looks wrong for that angle, are they by any chance flipped, I assume that they are digital photos given the time that You produced them in.
Not a critisism, just intrigued.
Phil
By: A330Crazy - 25th September 2002 at 19:05
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-09-02 AT 07:07 PM (GMT)]Brilliant Pictures!!!! 🙂
I found this one on Airliners.net, of it in flight.
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By: ageorge - 25th September 2002 at 18:52
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
I need to migrate further south !!! , too many midges and not enough aircraft up here in Scotland !!
By: futurshox - 25th September 2002 at 17:25
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
Blimey Damien, that was quick!
Nice piccies 🙂 Good to meet you, too.
The Connie started her engines dead on 16:30 and took off a few minutes afterwards, and did one of those steep-turn banking flypasts we usually only dream of! Now she is probably landed already in Manston, or nearly so.
By: ageorge - 25th September 2002 at 17:18
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
You don’t mess around Damien , I take it you live near Duxford??? , excellent photos!!! , did she fly back out tonight ???
By: EHVB - 25th September 2002 at 12:51
RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!
Thought you were in the USA by now!
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