Interesting photo’s vutee
The Vulcan was XA903 and was at Farnborough, cos so was I and I took the engines out of it!

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Thank you Demitri for posting some very interesting pictures of and old war horse, The Canberra that is!!
Please don’t get dis hartened by a lack of response to your previous pictures we all appreciate the effort!

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P.S. Keep your head down!

This story has been doing the rounds for a number of years now. With any aircraft that uses bleed air for pressurization the is a risk of atomized engine oil getting into the cabin air supply if an internal engine oil seal fails. The 787 by the way will be presurized by electrcaly powered compressors useing external air so this will not be a problem.
The terms “Allegedly, Anecdotal and cover up” are a bit strong as this information has been in the public domain for years. The airlines have very strict proceedures to deal with this, both in the air and on the ground and work very closly with the manufacturers to develop long term fixes.
Last year I had the un-fortunate experience of having this happed to me TWICE in TWO WEEKS!!!. I got on the first aircraft and noticed immediatly that it smelled like a back street garage. We took off and the smell got worse, to the point that I had a “tight” chest and my eyes were watering. In fact I thought that I was going to have to ask for help. Then for no apparent reason the smell just went away.
The next week I was on the same trip, same airline same type of aircraft but different registration. I got onboard and it had the same oily smell. This time though the smell went as soon as the aircraft pessurized. I got chatting to one of the cabin crew and mentioned the oil smell and she said that a month previously she had been so badly affected by the smell she had to go onto emergency oxygen and was unfitt for work for a week after.

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by738. That’s the plan I’ve heard too. BUT, as all PIA flights are full and always have a large freight load. I should imagine with the first breath of a head wind over the pond they will be dropping in for fuel!.

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O.K. chaps, is there anything interesting due in?. Apart from the weather being cr*p recently there has been nothing “Good” in for a long while. Bores me to tears!
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Billy Boeing tells us he’s got a repair scheme that’ll cope with any damage, so you have got to belive him!
The American pilots have tried to blame the AA airbus A300 accident at JFK on a dodgy repair to is composite fin. How are they going to cope with the entire fuselage and wings being composite?

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They have all been out in the weather for three years now. Manchester and Filton both made bids for the aircraft based on them being undercover within a few years. They were hollow words!!!!. The Manchester one will start to look a bit crabby and MAPLC will want B.A. to do something about it. B.A. will say “no” and then MAPLC will give B.A. notice to shift it!. It will end up being scrapped. I do know that there are a few volunteers looking after OAC (And Tridentman!) but it needs a hangar! Both the LHR one and Bristol one have the advantage of being near B.A’s maintenance base and BAe’s factory so they will recieve some sort of “Tarting up” when the corrosion starts to realy show.
The aircraft will never fly again. it was difficult enough for the combined forces of B.A, A.F and Airbus to try to keep the beasts in the air, so a charity does’nt stand a chance.
Now I don’t agree with Kev 35’s idear of scrapping them but I do belive that the organizations that put the bids in for them should honour thier obligations!!!

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P.S. Instead og moaning to each other about this state of afairs how about writing to the local papers, M.P’s and such like ?