The fate of British civil aviation industry hangs in the balance. Send for………..a Bae146!!!!!!! The only aircraft were the air contamination INSIDE the aircraft is worse than the contamination on the outside!!!
I remember when Mount St Helens erupted, The Met reserch flight Herc (Snoopy) was sent to the States and was flying THROUGH the volcanic plume within days.

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I’m glad that I’m not making the decission either way.

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To be fair, CKing, the Jury’s Inn isn’t all that bad. Myself and forum geek Adam Spalding spent a night there last year and it was OK.

A romantic night in the Jurys cannot compare with three seperate weeks on your own looking at your course notes and thinking about opening them.!:D

Ahhh hang on a second though… We were drinking really rather a lot. That could explain it!

Drink is the answer, drink to forget

That said, I remember one of the corridors was a real mess… After we had an ice fight down there at 1am while drunk… 😀

Yes you woke me up!!!!

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Bruntwood park by any chance, Lance?
I have had the heads up about an Etihad 777 doing the normal service on monday. I know it’s not that exciting, especialy because they will be going to 777’s from the middle of next month. But a heads up any way.
Oh they threw an A340-500 in yesterday on a divert.

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The 737 has always suffered from elevatotor vibration caused by the tabs.What is curious about this is that the FAA have issued an alert about it. It was the norm that at the first report of “Buzzing” from the elevators we used to go up and check the play in all the tab mechanism, bearings, castings actuator rods the lot. Inevitably it was one or the other. I THINK it’s the first step in the Fault isolation manual for it too.

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An interesting side effect of all of this for me was having to write the word “Volcanic” in aircraft’s tech logs. NEVER in my thirty two years in the industry have I ever had to do that or imagine that would have to either!!!:confused:
Yes we are doing special checks for the stuff and no we havn’t found any or any suspected damage caused by the stuff.
The rumour mill has been working overtime though. Every time a cowl is opened we hear that “The XXXX’s engines are full of it” Only to see the thing fly away with passengers about an hour later!!!
We all still Boo when the Iceland Air 757’s come in:D

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Did you see the genius in one of the papers earlier in the week asking whether the flight restrictions only applied to economy class or whether business class passengers were affected, too?

It was quoted again on Have I Got News For You last night. 😀

This wasn’t an isolated incident. I was speaking to a rep of one of the airlines I deal with at MAN and she said she had several people ask that!!!

Lindylou. Thanks for all the up dates

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Like I mentioned, the Airbus aircraft I have worked on have the various covers stored inside the aircraft and fly with the aircraft. The B737/B757 I have worked on have had the covers come from the store – I don’t know if that is a Boeing thing or not.

CKing would know more about the bigger Boeings than me. 🙂

See above post:D!!
All of them come with a set of covers. Most never see the light of day, going straight to stores.

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