Thanks for that. The paint scheme and the black canopy confused me!(Dos’nt take much!)
I agree the F-14 looks much better on a catapault about to go!
Or like this!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1150266/M/

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The first PSA aircraft(Shown at Farnborough in 1974)
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0939205/M/
had a “lump” just aft of the main gear ment to absorb the inpact of a nose gear collapse . The seating area was just basicaly a box (the same size as my front room!) with seats in it. With no windows , just artificial lighting it must have been a very Claustrophobic ride! The PSA aircraft ended up with LTU as by738 said. They tried everything to get people to travel in them but ripped them out eventualy.

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I tend to agree with Tom. in fact the second picture does seem to show some vapour or smoke form the left engine. A comon occurance during the initial start of an engine after a change or an engine fuel system componant change.
Don’t know what the fire man is doing though! He’s about as much use as a chocolate fire guard up there!
I must say that the fin clearence looks a bit tight in the first photograph.

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[QUOTE=Grey Area;1059855]Thank you, chaps. 🙂
That’s the stand that the EK “300ER”s park on, so maybe it’s something to do with the dimensions of the aircraft?

Yes Greay Area,you are right. I asked today and 202R is the only stand on T2that takes the -300 at the moment.

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I hate to have to admit it but not only have I seen the video, but I saw it when it first came out!!!!!
The Comet in question was an ex Dan Air one that was at Blackbush back in the eighties. It was delivered shortly after the Comets were withdrawn by Dans. It was bought by Doug Arnold for the museum that he said he was going to building there. It was scrapped about two years after it arrived. There was an incident during this period when a young lad was run over and killed on the road that runs past the airfield. It was said that the driver was distracted by the Comet. It was moved way across the airfield after that and scrapped.
Can’t tell you the reggie and as I don’t have a slide scanner, I can’t show you my pictures of it………. Sorry! Somebody else will probably do that!

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Edited to say: good old Airliners.net!!!!
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0735766/M/
Search comet-DanAir-Blackbush there is three images on there

The Qatar was not late. It was an extra aircraft dead legged in from Munich to pick up the passengers form the previous nights service that had gone tech.

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P.S. I’m getting socks for christmas and I’m working on the day. SNIFF!!

……..is this not bad also for the aircraft if it does get sucked in….i guess it was idling when i took this….

jason

Yes, birds being sucked into engines can be bad news. The USAF lost an AWACS in Alaska due to it flying into a flock of geese and it loosing all four engines on take off. There is a “Seconds from disaster” programe about it.
We get a few birds at MAN. They NORMALY don’t cause any damage on the big fans because the fan tends to centrifuge the bird clear of the core of the engine. The fan is strong enough, in most cases to cope with a bird and not pick up any damage. The core is another matter and would require deeper inspection useing Boroscope equipment. The first thing you notice when you get to an engine that has eaten a bird is the smell! You can smell it for weeks after the event. Most engine/bird strikes go un noticed by the crew. They are tough things jet engines. I normaly b***k the crew for not swerving around them!
Now I’m back on shift tomorrow and having said all that I will be inundated with bird strikes!!! Ah well!

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P.S. I’ll wave at you lot up in the car park 😉