Lusty Lindy

Lovely. Nice classic bird.

The last is my favourite. Loads of ‘atmosphere’ if you have any more I’d love to see them.

Very nice shots, I like the first the most.
Would love to have gone my self but its such a pain of a place to get to on public transport.

Any more ?

A neat looking plane for sure. For some reason the nose on one of these has always reminded me of a crawfish.

Always reminded me of a fountain pen, do you remember, pens that you had to fill up with ink from a bottle?:D

Thanks for your suggestions guys,

I will certainly follow up those leads and try to get lots of fuel. We are hoping to find around 30,000lbs from various places.

Next job…big houchin! Anyone know the whereabouts of a 60KvA fairly quiet houchin thats not £4000!!

Cheers

Ollie

Could you not talk to some of the airlines when they defuel the aircraft, many times that fuel is not put back in…?

Have you tried contacting Swires? They provide Jet A1 to the North Sea installations, and take back the 45 gallon drums of our samples. We take 16 litre samples each day, so if you figure on 30-40 installations each doing the same every day, plus what we send back in each tank that we don’t pump to the helicopters (around 500 litres each tank) it soon adds up.

Of course, there may be some conflict with HMRC wrt VAT, and competition from heating oil suppliers around Aberdeen to contend with………

A neat looking plane for sure. For some reason the nose on one of these has always reminded me of a crawfish.

As is always said, the vulcan and the victor must have looked like somthing out of the DAN-DARE comic when these birds were first test flown. If there is a fast run in august, why not charge a veiwing fee, or ask for a “DONATION” i for one (i know it would take many) would be glad to pay for the privilage of hearing and seeing this beast fire up and roll down the tarmac!! ;). I did notice that the volunteers at the YAM do a guided tour of the HALIFAX for a fee, is it feasable for you to do the same with Lindy. Keep up the good work chaps, she really is a credit to your hard work!!!!

Cracking shots there efiste, especially like the one with the tower in view. Nice to see new angles of one of my faves!

Just picking up on Mondariz’s point about beauty, I always thought that British aircraft were renowned for their good looks, think all three V bombers, Britannias, Comets, Hunters, Gannets…

Must agree ref: good looking British aircraft, but, Gannet and good looking?

Cracking shots there efiste, especially like the one with the tower in view. Nice to see new angles of one of my faves!

Just picking up on Mondariz’s point about beauty, I always thought that British aircraft were renowned for their good looks, think all three V bombers, Britannias, Comets, Hunters, Gannets…

Hi Peter,

We have tried this in the past, but usually we just don’t get a reply, I am going to try again soon and see if I can get a response. We would pay for the transport and they need to pay to get rid of it usually, so surely its a win-win situation for them and we get lots of fuel!

Ollie

Could you not talk to some of the airlines when they defuel the aircraft, many times that fuel is not put back in…?

Nice pictures of the Jet there!

We last painted Lindy in May 2006, still looks like new though, mostly due to a good monthly wash and scrub up! Thanks for the kind comments, its nice to see pictures of her taken by people, its often more triangular stuff that has its picture taken!!

We should be doing another high speed taxi run in August, however we need to find somebody to sponsor us some fuel. We currently have enough on board to keep all the tanks wet and do another high speed run with the fuel that is in the bomb bay tanks, but some more would be nice.

Although we can move fuel around the aircraft to suit we don’t want to lower the level any more so we dont run any of the tanks dry. As for the getting the fuel, as long as its not contaminated, we aint bothered where its come from!!

Ollie

Great pics of Lindy! A tribute to the hard graft that has been spent on this girl pays off when you see her standing proud!

She really looks as though she is in her junior years and from what i have seen on the forum, its the same story on the inside! I think its those massive air intakes that make it look so “menacing” As soon as you approach the turn off into the elvington museum, the first thing you see is this aircraft, looking like its still on QRA awaiting the call!! by the way does anyone kow how much air these machines can intake per min/sec ?

With a 35 year service span, it must have had more then good looks.

Yes, it had what they call “character”. Especially if you had to fix them.

Beautiful aircraft!! They look so menacing, she looks in fantastic condition too. Has she had a new coat applied recently?

I’m generally not in favour of British aircraft design lines (not talking about performance), as “sexyness” often seem to take 2nd seat (and rightly so), but this bird always strikes me as one of the few times, where a British design department was able to make a large aircraft look sexy.

With a 35 year service span, it must have had more then good looks.

Nice pics of a Great aircraft! One of the most stealthy looking designs built!