Not looking too good – wreckage found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7691465.stm

I remember this one flying in from Leuchars as one of a pair. The other one diverted to Wattisham with hydraulic problems, ( not wishing to block the runway with slippery fluid just before an airshow!.)

Incidentally, 1973 was the first year that the security of the aircraft in the static display was an issue. The IRA were the terrorist threat then and it meant that you were no longer able to wander round the aircraft at close quarters. Great for taking photos though.

Ah yes, the year of the pick axe handle wielding squaddies….

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/158603-harrier-gr1-race-1969-a.html

If I remember correctly, there were a number of attempts by the services to win the race in each direction (with the RAF doing it westbound and the Navy doing it eastbound). Graham Williams appears to be flying one of the other Harriers.

Here’s another link

http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/archive/index.php?t-2972.html

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65720&highlight=daily+mail+air+race

As reported by Graham Skinner over on the mil-spotters forum

Route and Times (all times are in local)
The flypast will be from the west to the east down runway 06 and over the FAST
museum

1200-1203 Apache from/to Middle Wallop
1204-1206 Puss/Gypsy Moth from/to Audley End?
1207-1209 5 x Tiger Moths from/to Popham
1210-1212 Anson from/to Old Warden
1213-1214 Hurricane from/to Oxford?
1215-1217 Chipmunk Farnborough Aero Club
1219-1220 Vulcan from/to Bruntingthorpe?
1222-1223 Hawk from/to Valley?
1225-1226 Typhoon from/to ?
1228-1230 C-17 from/to Brize Norton

Up to the Chipmunk should be at 500 ft, and the rest at 1000ft
Times may change slightly depending on wind strength and speed of slower
aircraft

I don’t understand why a fault with an individual IFE system warrants an urgent diversion.

I was recently on a flight (NOT BA) where my IFE unit was clearly malfunctioning. The cabin crew tried re-booting it multiple times without success. No diversion or any other effect on the flight.

Je ne comprends pas.

I must be missing something….:confused:

IIRC the fire that brought down the Swissair MD11 off Halifax was due to a fire starting in the IFE wiring loom (which then set alight the insulation).

If there was a burning smell I can understand why the BA crew treated it as an emergency

BE8192/99 went Glasgow-Edinburgh-Aberdeen-Inverness-Wick-Kirkwall-Lerwick in those days and was a Viscount and provided me with my first flight back in 1974.

Or how about the Channel Airways Trident that was over 36 hours late? Sad to say, there was no story, it was just 36 hours late…