Ok here goes! 😀

Yes the old Icelandair logo is a horse’s head. It is from the old ‘viking’ (not using the word ‘Norse’ :diablo: ) mythology.

All of Icelandair’s aircraft at the time of the 727 picture were carrying names, all of which ended with -FAXI. The approximate meaning of Faxi is horse. This goes right back to about 1946, and some names were used again and again. For example, the name Gullfaxi was used for for the ‘flagship’ of the fleet from 1947, up until 1978. Aircraft in the picture, TF-FIA, had the name Sólfaxi (Sun horse!) and served from 1971 until 1989 or there abouts.

The Icelandair you are looking at in this old picture is not the Icelandair of today. Icelandair of today was formed in 1973 when the old Flugfélag Íslands (Icelandair) and Loftleiðir (Loftleidir Icelandic) merged to become Flugleiðir, however they decided to keep the english name as Icelandair! And the irony of it all that Icelandair (the new one) Has renamed it’s domestic division Flugfélag Íslands and it’s Charter buisness is now Loftleidir Icelandic!

On the sunset theme. Taken over the Bay of Biscay enroute from Malaga to Edinburgh last summer.

Like the FW-190 with the Russian radial? 🙂

Not even Russian 😮 It’s from CHINA 😮 😮

To be fair, it is the BMW 801 that originally powered the FW190, reverse-engineered in Russia and produced in China. Hope I got that right, all a bit complicated after a couple of glasses of red 😮 😀

No?

I was getting told a story about a Loganair Twin Otter at EDI. The pilot, was taxxiing the aircraft over to the other side of the airfield when it came time to stop they found they had no brakes. Supposedly, one of the things the pilots do after arriving, is pull the CB (Circuit-Breaker) for the hydrualic pump, which runs off a DC-Supply (the battery). Normally, the hydrualic pump is powered by the engines, which charges the battery, and allows the pump to operate (If I remember correctly, I’m not Twin Otter-savvy). The steering is also hydrualically powered, which was eating away the pressure stored by the accumlator, so when it came time to stop, they hadd to pressure, and thus no brakes – off they went through a fence.

I had never heard of that incident – but, there you go…it’s plausible I suppose.

Hummmmmm…..All very possible. The thing is, however, that all turboprops have reversing props. When the thing is running away from you, you put the props in reverse and that thing will stop rather quickly at normal taxi speed.

A wing tip collision, nothing major and no injuries.

Fortunately no injuries, but try telling the bean counters that this is nothing major. They are probably having a fit right now 😮

Also, I think the pilots involved will right now be considering this a major happening 😮

I think there is some misunderstanding here regarding my comments regarding the paint job. What I was stating is the obvious. It has a great paint job inside and out. Like I said in another post here, I’ve not seen this aircraft with my own eyes, let alone inspected it with regard to the quality of work. Therefor I can not possibly give any comment on the restoration.

The aircraft is not restored to airworthy standards, it does have a great paint job and looks good in the museum.

If I’m not mistaken this aircraft was standing on one of the remote stands this morning. Any idea when this happened, or where? I can not place the taxiway in my head