Yes, I agree. The nose is awful and the rest of it is nothing special.

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What about the P-38 in Wales? That seems to have gone VERY quiet!

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The jet engine takes no prisoners, at either end!

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Looks good. They spend a fortune building a replica but they couldn’t save the Beverley:mad:

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I also put my 35mm(remember that) SLR with it’s 100-300 zoom lens back into my camera bag just as the two Mig 29’s taxied out for THAT display at Fairford 😮 “Oh I won’t waste my film on these two. I’ll save it for something more exciting”
Do you remember “Saving” film?

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I had the charger for my camera pack up on me when I was on holiday. On my first day back into work, there was THE AN-22 parked up on the cargo stands! The day was photographically perfect. Bright sun light, high fluffy white clouds and the sun was behind me……..Behind me and my digital camera with the flat batteries. The AN-22 left the next day…….The day I had taken off to look after my children. Guess how many times the AN-22 has been in to Manchester since…..go on….guess.

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P.S. I WAS going to put the pictures on this website, so you all suffered too!!

Yup, and by time the carriers come into service, 2020 ish, it’ll need dredged again probably….. You can get a lot of silt in 6 years….

Kind Regards,
Scotty

You know what they say, “Silt happens” 😀

I’ll get my coat

Cking

there was one incident where a main undercarriage strut was cracked and it took quite some time to get a replacement, this was put down to hard landings at Antigua and Barbados it was about 2006 i think.

It was the casting for the attachment point for the main undercarriage in the wing that was cracked, not the gear.
To replace it they had to jack and trestle the aircraft very accurately, remove the gear, the engines and the pylons and then remove the casting. Re fitting of the new castings would require special jigs and very accurate drilling, reaming and fitting of some close tolerence, oversize fasteners.
There was a picture of the said crack on PPRUNE at the time. I went and had a look at the aircraft and the crack was plainly visible from the ground. When ever I inspect the gear on a 330 I always look a little bit harder in that area now!
The story goes that an engineer was greasing the U/C pivot bearing when he noticed grease exuding from the crack!

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