Paganism and planes, can’t be beaten. Great slide show. Funny Steve Rowell hasn’t found this thread yet!:D
Hay Raymy since i posted there been a funny looking van parked across from my house and a strange helicop……………………………..
You can’t be that important unless you have an AWACS and a Nimrod overhead!:D
I’m certainly glad it’s not being broken up. I’m just a pessimist when I hear of classic jets being bought. I automatically think spares reclamation.:diablo:
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Well, you won’t want to look at this site with details of other 707 demises!:D
http://www.aviation-friends-cologne.de/html/Boeing707/Boeing707.htm
Any news on it’s future? Seems odd to put it on UK register to reduce it to spares, if that were to be the case.
Why would you assume it is going to be scrapped after having flown from Oz? I think it would be unusual to put it into the hangar to be scrapped.
Stop press news. It is in for hush-kitting.;)
Nice picture, interesting potted history of the aircraft below.
http://www.aviation-museum.co.uk/seaprince.htm
And actually airborne as N7SY.
You see BA have melted my once great baggage services brain! 😀
I guess your shoulders are just not large enough for the load!:D
Would you be thinking of the V.1000 powered by the Conway by-pass engine?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vickers_VC10
or this, the double decked VC.10?
No you have that backwards I did agree to go back for another week and now would NOT?go near the place again.
Did you mean?:D
Beat me to it, Bournemouth Aviation Museum!
Lots of photos of all sorts of planes and characters and a few stories
http://firepirates.com/
Great site there, bookmarked for future reference, good humour too!:D
Shame the Gull didn’t, Hawthorn’s piloting escapades seem to have been just as ‘interesting’;) as his driving ones.
Not having the benefit of having read the book, what would be some brief details of the ‘incidents’?:)
Somebody thought it was worth £249.99, winning bid.
She came out of a technical college in South Wales. She is fatigue life expired and the engine is high time so the guide price is optomistic.
This item was posted before the sale ended but was removed by ‘them’ for advertising. Couldn’t see the difference between this item and the Comet fuselage recently from the same sellers!:confused:
As expected, no bids at this price, maybe perserverance will pay.
How does someone from ‘oop north’ know about Berck? I had to look it up!:D :confused: