Four visitors through the gates today, so I’ve just been informed.
FW is outside again, looks good in the snow.
Would have been five if they hadn’t restricted access to the place. 😀
Brian
You didn’t miss a lot, although we did get the first flying visitor today!
They could always do a swap with the Indian Air Force using another of the BBMF airframes…..
(I’ll get me coat)
The 190 was being dismantled when I arrived at DX this morning (in the snow!)
…and you didn’t call in for a cuppa? Shame on you, Bruce…:)
It’s OK, the Sunday Express will save them again :rolleyes:
The CAA’s CAP637 has illustrations on marshalling –
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP637.PDF
Doesn’t cover stuff like “bomb doors open” but that shouldn’t be a problem on a JP
I never knew that Rick Astley was an instrument fitter 😀
Great video, thanks for posting!
Interesting to note the time the aircraft took to come to a halt…9 seconds. Must seem like hours to the occupants, and I’m sure the good people in Hollywood could make a crash landing last a couple of minutes at least!
they apparently need all the beauty sleep they can get
Which would be why devastatingly handsome engineers who don’t need beauty sleep would still be up late at night posting on forums, eh Roobs? 😀
Impatient, aren’t you? 😀
I’ll check one out in the morning for you, hangar lights are out now…..
As David says, it’s a six inch wheel, which is the diameter of the well. The rim is about seven inches, and the bearing aperture (‘ole in the middle 😀 ) is about 2½ inches. Bit hard to gauge the depth of this hole, as you would need the wheel to be off the aircraft. Hope this helps.
I can tell you it’s Czech, not Dutch.
Don’t forget that you can hop on and off the bus wherever you like – it stops at each hangar anyway, and as it is a free service you can just make use of it as you wish. Watch out for the dodgy ex-police driver with the beard tho’….. 😉
Fascinating programme, really enjoyed it. One thing that I found puzzling was the jettisoning of the water containers over Russia – the crewman cut the tanks away rather than just emptying them. Now surely this could create difficulties down route when you desired to take ballast on again. Or, was the film actually showing waste containers being dumped, and that just happened to be a handy bit of film to use?
Maybe next time they’ll set up at Gransden and reactivate the FIDO to heat the greenhouses….:p