One night the airstairs caught fire on a night boarding while it was in use, no one spotted it from the airline or the airport and it took a landing Air SouthWest crew to see it and report it. There was sheer pandomioum on the stairs with pasengers running in all directions, some darted inside the aircraft others tried making for the closed terminal doors. eventually after a state one was raised the fire went out, it was quite amusing but could have been very dangerous.

I was on duty that night, remember calmly logging the “State One” in the occurrence book before turning on the comms to ascertain what was actually going on! My word, there was interesting radio traffic that night. 😀

Fortunately we were advised that the “state” had been down graded before the rest of the section stampeded in on re-call.

Two each side on my Airfix one

Revenge of the black top! Should’ve used a Rolba, would’ve taken her weeks to excavate the car.

Funny clip lads, not a side splitter, but funny.

Valiant nose at RAE Farnborough (and a couple of cars) on the dump on 1 June 1980

Is this the Valiant nose section which is now at Brooklands?

Great pics lads, keep ’em coming

First a confession…..yes, I Dr Strangelove, once flew on Ryan Air, In fact forumite & stalwart Pagan01 ferried me to & from the airport.

My findings of the service & flight offered by Ryan Air would appear to match those of Mr Hitler in the clip I posted in post #7, more precisely the phrase-

Marginally better than walking

Seems the most appropriate sentiment.

Now, as to the whole “class” thing, I would like to point out the following-

passengers ranged from across the board, business folk, tourists, “budget” travellers, even the former SATCO from air traffic was on board.
However, to their credit, Ryan Air appear to operate a totally class-less system, as in we were all treated with equal contempt. 😀

And if, one day, one of your family were to be executed for a crime they didn’t commit would the death penalty (based on average benefits against drawbacks) still get the Strangelove stamp of approval?

Because everyone who has ever been executed through a miscarriage of justice had a family, too.

Get with the program GA :rolleyes:

My only reservation is when it all goes wrong & the wrong person gets fried/hanged, just ask Timothy John Evans, oh hang on (sic) you can’t 😮

The chair does kick a$$, far better than hanging

My only reservation is when it all goes wrong & the wrong person gets fried/hanged, just ask Timothy John Evans, oh hang on (sic) you can’t 😮

However, the whole death penalty (based on average benefits against drawbacks) does get the Strangelove stamp of approval.

Bomb doors and flaps all got a work out though we haven’t got pneumatics online yet as we’re still having issues with the air bottles. If the dates are to be believed we can’t use them until the’re inspected. The date on at least one bottle says “Next Insp 7.61 ”

I use a Shack air bottle as a receiver for my airbrush 😀 It’s in great shape too, maybe swap if yours are shagged, I only need something able to take 40 psi:D