Ruddy heck thanks for that Allen, I didn’t think it would have survived, how do you go about viewing it?

Tail looks Heinkel, but wings and undercarriage like Messerschmitt:confused:

Hats off to the guy who did this though!

Ross McNeill, he’s a member here, but haven’t seen him post for a while:confused:

I can’t help thinking that swearing might figure in this somewhere!

I do enjoy the sound of hours and hours of VC-10 groundruns that are conducted not far from my office window.

There are all ready loads of ‘ugliest aircraft’ threads going, and the above two aircraft are already mentioned in them.
Suggest using the search facillity at upper right, and tag on to one of those.

It should be explained aswel, that the three plumes of smoke that you see are from the same cartridge as it expels the waste from the charge through three exhaust outlets, not all three cartridges letting go simultaneously!!

Some engines require two cartridges for a cold start, one to churn the motor over and another to get it to sustaining and ingnition speed, the press button starter switches often having a clockwork timer mechanism built in to prevent accidental firing of carts too close to each other.

Is that the same 100 years of Bristol mentioned in this thread from earlier today, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=98073 ?!

I’m surprised that the Bristol Aero Collection haven’t laid on something special for this.

From memory now, it was a free take off attempt that went wrong, the Gannet did go over the side of the deck but luckily it got entangled in the ‘cat walk’ area.
There is a full sequence of pics of the incident somewhere.