Seems like its those tossers at Unite again!!!
Andy

Or…..What un acceptable thing have the management decided to impose on the workforce???

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Clean and inspect it regularly, like the rest of the fleet! You would imagine that there was some laquer or varnish used but there aint. All the fleet started out that shiney but the surface of the alclad dulls with time due to oxidation. It is in fact a very thin layer of surface corrosion. To shine one up you basicaly remove this thin layer of oxidation. If you did it often enough you would polish your way through the skin though! That is why AA doesn’t do it every week. This finish will last a few years but will be slowly revert to the same dull silver as the rest of the fleet.
I wonder what colour the AA plastic pigs will be?

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With those winglets and no actual fuselage paint to weigh it down …it must be the cheapest ship to run in the AA fleet

I’ve been told they have to DRAIN fuel off it after every flight!;)

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Wow thanks chaps!
Creaking door. You mention the Napier Sabre’s complexity. My apprentice master at Farnborough worked on them for a short while after the war. He recalls them as being a nightmare to keep working well and said that nobody was either sad or surprized when they were withdrawn! It makes me smile when people sugest say thaey want to get one airworthy again.
Hears a question How many Sabres exist today?

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I must admit I couldn’t think af a good reason why the crank would need to be different but assumed I must have missed something.

Pete, as the resident expert, what’s a quill shaft?

Not Pete but…
A quill shaft is the small shaft between the engine accessory gearbox and an accessory ie the hydraulic pump. It has a weak point in it so that if the accessory seizes the shaft shears to protect the accessory gear box.
As for “lefties” and “righties” it is usualy just the very last bit of the gearbox that turns the other way UNLESS you have a P-38, then the whole thing turns in a different direction!. Supposedly you can change one to another but it involves stripping it down into tiny pieces in an engine shop.

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Toilets are a source of endless fun. In fact it is part of an Aircraft engineers creed that when ever more than two of us are gathered together we will always end up talking about blocked bogs. We all have a good “Bog story” and after telling it it is the rule that somebody else tells another starting with the line “Thats nothing, that!”
Quite a few years ago there was another Bog thread running on the forum.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35084

Towards the end of it I discribed the two systems used on airliners. all new Airbus and most new Boeings have vacuum toilet systems.

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I was on a course with KLM at Norwich a few years back and the instructor there told us that the 777 had to have bends put into the poo pipes because such a long straight section, when tried on the engineering mockup, let to the t*rds going supersonic and smashing their way out at the far end. 😮

They use a synthetic block for testing, in case anyone’s wondering. 😉

Did they reach Turdinal velocity?

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I’d love to know how they got the freight doors open underwater. To un lock then is no problem, the latch and locks are manual but they are hydraulicly opened.
The rear one is in the position I’d expect if the door had been un latched and un locked but the forward one has been fully opened and locked open. I can only assume that a team of frog men found the manual pump amd pumped it open. It’s hard enough when you do it on the ramp but underwater???
It will be on “Mega movers” or recovery squad at some point

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