Wing tips on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RAF-WW2-WING-TIPS-SPITFIRE_W0QQitemZ260144767557QQihZ016QQcategoryZ2983QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Mark 🙁

Well, you all missed these ‘Spitfire’ bargains, they went for £12.99!

Maybe there was 2 BA747 volcanic dust incidents.
I am sure there was one over the African continent.
All four engines also failed and then restarted I think it was in darkness.
The crew found a small airfield with no navaids and runway lighting partly missing. The cockpit windscreen had been shotblasted and the captain landed the aircraft manually looking out of the side window.
Does anyone else remember this?
wawkrk

You are describing the Jakarta incident unless you are confused with the Air Canada 767 incident on 23/7/83 where the plane glided 45 miles from 35,000 feet to land at Gimli.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19830723-0

Amazing piece of machinery. However I wonder why the designer(s) went for all that heavy structure to mount the rotors out on the wing tips rather than fore and aft of the fuselage a la Chinook?

Roger Smith.

Because he’s Russian and they like to over engineer? Because he was a bridge builder in a previous life? I see he used half his caravan as a cockpit!:D

Newforest

Mate the Air Transat glided 21,500ft in 77nm (or 88.5 statute miles) to end up at 13,000ft 8nm from the runway threshold. This is a glide ratio of about 1:21 which is excellent.

Dean

Cheers mate, thanks for the correction!:)

Thanks a lot for all those informations, Next time I go to England I will try to purchase it.:)

Cheers,

Olivier

No need to travel, buy it on……..

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?ht=1&from=R4&saatc=3&salic=3%26saatc%3D-1&satitle=The+best+years+of+our+life&sacat=11232%26catref%3DC6

Flying my Cheetah from Blackpool to the Scilly Islands after the I.O.M. got socked in was the best flight ever. CAVOK all down the Welsh coast, past Devon, Cornwall and then due west until the rocks appeared, great!

And W.W., I might have been on that same boat trip back in ’76, what an experience that was.:)

Congratulations, great effort and you changed your signature quick enough!:D