Engineering update, 7th November
Nice photos Scott. We’ll have to get you down again soon.
A few pics from yesterday’s engineering effort. Blue_2 will be along soon to add a few more words, but in short we continued working on the Artouste, removed last week.
One team began rubbing down the bay ready for a spot of corrosion treatment and a repaint.
The bay before
Blue_2 and Rich (impersonating a Shuttleworth volunteer for the day) rubbing.
Blue_2 and Rich trying to get the top panel off to get in to the bay from above
The wing’s a lot deeper than you think. Nik trying to reach a bolt
The rest of the team, resting
It was a nice bright, autumnal day
The Nimrod crew performed a new trick, opening up the bomb bay wide enough to load a torpedo
We ended the day with a bit of zapping. Blue_2
Meanwhile Andre and John worked in the hangar on the artouste itself, getting it ready to be put back in. A few more repairs will be needed before the bay is ready for it, but everything chugging along merrily. Ruth and Nik were busy rubbing down the nose wheel bay ready for its own repaint.
Sven
October Thunder day
A few shots from the weekend’s night photo shoot and thunder day. Thanks to all those who came, and to those who didn’t, you missed a good one.
Saturday afternoon
Lindy getting into position
The run goes off without a hitch, although the parachute bag was ripped in the process. Does anyone happen to have a spare Victor or Vulcan parachute bag lying around?
Ian Finch and the team did a great job of lighting the various aircraft
Sven
Engineering update, 26th September
With Blue_2 and Victor_Sim away it was a fairly quiet day, but quite a productive one.
After a team effort, involving six XL231 team members, a brace of ex-Victor ground crew (who were only up for a visit, teaches them right for owning up to knowing what they were doing :D), a museum volunteer and almost the entire Pepper clan, we managed to get the brake chute that had foiled us last week untangled.
This was largely thanks to an ex rag-packer who very kindly finished the job whilst I had to step outside for a phone call (victor related, honest).
The extended team
Maypole dancing in September
With the tangle sorted we could carry on as a four man (and woman) team.
Bundling the lines;
And four hours later it’s safely tucked away ready for the thunder day in October.
Meanwhile a small group went to learn the ropes on the buccaneer, our electrician was stolen by the Nimrod team for the morning to help with some plug issues and the auxiliary power unit electrical fault continued to elude us. This won’t affect our run and the team is slowly eliminating the possibilities.
Sven
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