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if anybody is interested i have put a couple of video clips of on youtube showing an avpin start up close up taxi and reheat runs and can be found at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1GYqwTPTTI

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lu_wF4nDW0

also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWy2NlGyVQ

sorry for picture quality for some reason it lost the quality in the transfer to youtube i am still learning and will sort it out one day

Are there any photo’s of XP757 on the web

keighley atc sqn have or had a cockpit but never found the reg,anyone know of it

Hi just been reading this thread so i thought i would answer your question.
The cockpit was of mk3 XP757 of 29 sqn which i recovered a few years ago from a warehouse in keighley.
Sadly there wasn much left of it when i got hold off her ,Basically fwd and aft pressure bulkheads and well all i can say is you could only just recognise it as a lightning.
I rebuilt the cockpit to around bout 70 percent kitted out with all the instrument panels and seat and then passed her own to her owner in stamford.
If you look on the international cockpit club forum and look in the gallery you will see some pictures of how she was before and after.
Been very interested to see any pictures of her when she was with the atc as only seen a couple of pictures of her on the dump at Wattisham and then the cockpit section i the scrapyard.
Hope that helps.
Any more questions regarding XP757 i shall try and answer.

Here is an interesting link for all Lightning collectors….

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170297407288

Hope you enjoy, Scott.

awww great video with Brian, RIP. interesting to see 773 was flown with a knackered OVV valve, producing that nice con trail behind her. like a lightning can afford to lose any fuel in the first place!:rolleyes:

Thanks again John.

A quick search of u-bend brings up a nice trailer for the DVD………

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGZpbRfMu-Q

Sigh for a few spare grand and an understanding wife, oh and legs six inches shorter !!!!.

John.

Cheers John!

Peter,

The blurb says that the DVD is distributed from the UK, IIRC it is also stocked at quite a few museums, Hendon, Dux and Cosford spring to mind.

John.

The link to buy now goes to some 4×4 forum thing?
Second look, I found it. Andy are they available in the UK at all?

That video will be awesome to see!

Here we go Peter

http://www.shortfinals.co.za/DVDs.html

Pelican 16 is a good watch as well 😉

is it on the internet at all? Not to be ghoulish…

No Peter Im affraid its not

That video will be awesome to see!

Peter, a good proportion of the scapping scenes from Tony’s video (a few minutes is enough) are on the Thunder and Lightnings Quest for Power DVD complied by and for the Thunder City boys

isbn0-9584844-1-4

Its well worth a watch, for the flying scenes and the interviews with Mike, Tony, Brian Carrol, Ernie Marshall and Barry Pover 😉

is it on the internet at all? Not to be ghoulish…

hey andy, ever seen the video tony made, of Nev trying to break those airframes up at Cranfield?? if anyone ever had any doubts about how strong lightning wings are, it’s blown away in that video.the most impressive bit was where the entire airframe of 899 is being thrown around like a rag doll, trying to break off the starboard wing, which had already been cut 80% the way through with a chop saw. It faught to the bitter end. Absolute carnage!!:o

Yeh seen it many times mate 🙁

I was there, I had my camera but didnt use it, a very sad sight

They were just smashed to bits really

That video will be awesome to see!

hey andy, ever seen the video tony made, of Nev trying to break those airframes up at Cranfield?? if anyone ever had any doubts about how strong lightning wings are, it’s blown away in that video.the most impressive bit was where the entire airframe of 899 is being thrown around like a rag doll, trying to break off the starboard wing, which had already been cut 80% the way through with a chop saw. It faught to the bitter end. Absolute carnage!!:o

keighley atc sqn have or had a cockpit but never found the reg,anyone know of it

Hi Andy, Sorry about that assumption, when I read of one being at CNAM, I rather assumed this was it, yes that pic was of a sneak preview I was offered of the Mick Jennings cockpit collection at Norwich in October.
So is there another Lightning cockpit (other than the complete Saudi) here at Norwich (if so I missed it on my visit) confused.com ???

Keith.

No worries Keith, that cockpit is the one we loaned to Mick, there isnt another, one day it would be nice to have it in the Q shed 😉

Cheers

Hi Andy, Sorry about that assumption, when I read of one being at CNAM, I rather assumed this was it, yes that pic was of a sneak preview I was offered of the Mick Jennings cockpit collection at Norwich in October.
So is there another Lightning cockpit (other than the complete Saudi) here at Norwich (if so I missed it on my visit) confused.com ???

Keith.