Did anybody see ‘558 cruising over Thanet on the way to Brize from Lasham airshow last month?
Curious to see who else saw her since it must be the first time since the early nineties that she was in Thanet.
It was a beautiful sight to see her cruising off into the sunset with them 4 Rollers growling away.
By: PBY-5A - 6th August 2009 at 19:24
The DC-8 is going to be restored? I thought that was slowly being scrapped, it is in the area of death, i know the ex-RAAF 707 is hopefully gonna be restored but that seems to be on hold atm. They main use of the airfield at the moment seems to be training for business jets.
I live in the town, by the station and urself?
Over near Asda, on Rumfields Rd.
That is correct in the DC-8 going to the netherlands.
It is going to be restored to static condition in KLM colors.
The 707 has got be hush kitted before it can fly, not too sure what is going on with it at the moment.
I’ve noticed quite a few heavies taking off from manston in the last couple of weeks, which is a nice change from the boring business jets, including a DC-10, which was nice n’ loud!
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th August 2009 at 11:21
Thats pretty interesting, they had better hurry, bits seem to disappear off it every week and its not very weather tight atm
By: Topgun1984 - 6th August 2009 at 11:13
The Aviodrome (lelystad airport NL) is trying to get that DC-8 to the Netherlands. because this aircraft is actually the last “short” version that actually flew with the KLM when in service…
It will be restored to static condition so don’t expect to see it fly out from there 😉
Grtz,
TG1984
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th August 2009 at 10:34
The DC-8 is going to be restored? I thought that was slowly being scrapped, it is in the area of death, i know the ex-RAAF 707 is hopefully gonna be restored but that seems to be on hold atm. They main use of the airfield at the moment seems to be training for business jets.
I live in the town, by the station and urself?
By: PBY-5A - 6th August 2009 at 02:00
i apologise, it must be the 92 show, had both on VHS at one point! was an amazing display!
Indeed mate, 92 i believe was the last show it did.
A friend of mine has the ’91 open day on VHS, but i only would of been 2 years old at the time, so i don’t remember.
And to the other comment, i’m not sure what the situation was with Lasham, but it was heading west, the only place it could of been going at that time of the day (around 7:30pm) must of been Brize, as she is not allowed to fly at night.
Where abouts in Broady are you mark?
Also just found out the MK DC-8 parked up at Manston is going to be restored.
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th August 2009 at 23:04
It’ll have been earlier than that, she was grounded at Bruntingthorpe in March 1993, 1992 being her last full season.
i apologise, it must be the 92 show, had both on VHS at one point! was an amazing display!
By: XL391 - 5th August 2009 at 22:30
i saw her at RAF manston air day 94, and i will never forget it!
It’ll have been earlier than that, she was grounded at Bruntingthorpe in March 1993, 1992 being her last full season.
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th August 2009 at 19:28
I thought she didn’t fly that day, wasn’t she grounded at Yeovilton, first by a brake problem & then the weather?
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th August 2009 at 16:38
Damn it, i missed that, gutted, last time i saw her was at RAF manston air day 94, and i will never forget it!
We must be near neighbours!
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