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September 27, 2005 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Sad sight on the Venice Lido #1375452

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Somewhere on the internet (I cant find I but I do have a copy I can upload if anyone is interested) is a short clip of a drag race between the then-current Ferrari 126CK forumla one car driven by the late Gilles Villeneuve and an Italian airforce F-104, at Istrana airbase (Treviso).

September 21, 2005 at 10:44 am in reply to: G-AWZK Trident 3B move to Manchester #1383704

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Well its taken enough time…. (I infer you work at LHR?) you probably got used to passing a dismantled Trident on the way into work and now its vanished 😀

September 20, 2005 at 11:57 pm in reply to: G-AWZK Trident 3B move to Manchester #1383935

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There isnt an APU but she will be powered by a ground supply and many of the systems do still work. Somewhere I hve a little video clip showing the aircraft at night powered up.

September 19, 2005 at 7:47 pm in reply to: Goodwood Revival #1385515

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I was shopping in Chichester on Saturday and saw two Mustangs displaying and I saw a Dragon Rapide on Sunday whilst walking near Arundel which I assumed had come from/was going to Goodwood. Other than that I dont know, might be worth checking their website out.

September 16, 2005 at 11:16 am in reply to: What were your defining moments in becoming an enthusiast? #1389234

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As a seven year old, on holiday with my parents at my grandparents holiday cottage in Cornwall. The old man who lived next door had been a crewman (not sure whether he was a pilot/nav/bomber/gunner or what exactly now 🙁 ) on Lancasters. He knew I had a bit of an interest, so he gave me a copy of Aviation, an illustrated history” by Christopher Chant and I guess that started me off.

September 13, 2005 at 11:41 pm in reply to: XP688 lost in the depths(literally) of Lancashire #1393818

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Well I hope, and I’m sure, that yours is better looked after! This could have been a nice little restoration project for someone (I’ve seen much worse things brought back) but now it will inevitably become rotting Al2O3 to poison the fish in that lake 🙁

Any pictures of your one around?

September 13, 2005 at 11:36 pm in reply to: How Low Can You Go?? #1393823

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How about this? 😀

I cant see for sure (even o nthe full size one) ut it looks like his leading edge droop is retracted, so his IAS must have been >225kts when this shot was taken!

September 13, 2005 at 8:53 pm in reply to: XP688 lost in the depths(literally) of Lancashire #1394546

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Thats criminal 😡 🙁 That looked in really good shape too (beforehand). What is it all about, is someone doing a second remake of “Thunderball” on a very tight budget?

Surely that JP cant have come cheap ( I have seen some really for poor condition ones for sale at not-cheap prices) so I cant believe anyone would be this daft?? Its not my favourite aeroplane but I’m sure its great fun.

September 13, 2005 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Rumour about scrapping of Manchester RJX? #1394978

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Thanks Steve and I stand corrected 😀 1920s and 30s is not only before my time but also before my era of main interest. Interesting to see the names reused… I believe there was a Vickers Vulcan once upon a time too?

September 13, 2005 at 12:55 pm in reply to: Rumour about scrapping of Manchester RJX? #1395785

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Bruce, enjoy these:

http://www.faam.ac.uk/public/photos.html

Toby

September 13, 2005 at 11:37 am in reply to: Rumour about scrapping of Manchester RJX? #1396023

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AW Scimitar…Supermarine Sea Eagle…

One of us is a little confused here (might be me?) but I would think that you mean AW (Hawker) Sea Hawk and Supermarine Scimitar (of which I am aware of one of the former and three of the latter). The Sea Eagle was a Hawker Siddeley Dynamics anti-shipping missile. Unless these naems were already used elsewhere?

The RJX is safe btw. Of three completed airframes, one is on display at Manchester and is not going to be scrapped, another is still on hte ground at Woodford and the third one sadly did get canned after 8 hours flying 🙁

September 12, 2005 at 11:27 pm in reply to: Rumour about scrapping of Manchester RJX? #1396476

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E1001 was rebuilt as E3001 by the addition of two fuselage plugs and some strengthening. It now flies as G-LUXe (read further back up this thread 😉 )

I think there had been a feeling within BAe brewing up for a while to get out of civil aircraft manufacture. Personally, I would have sent the 125 down to Hatfield and kept the 146 production there, keeping Chester for Airbus and Woodford for sundry stuff like Nimrod upgrades – ultimately I dont know what will happen to Woodford?

With my “plan” there, you would have had two successful products in the 125 and the 146 and their design teams all on one site, it would have required some investment to upgrade the production facilities at Hatfield though, but you could have had a nice little civil aircraft business to spin-off as a going concern, if thats what they wanted to do.

Buts thats all conjecture with the benefit of hindsight and a good helping of sentiment 😀

September 12, 2005 at 6:23 pm in reply to: Rumour about scrapping of Manchester RJX? #1397018

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I think I am right in saying that every aircraft built on that production line from the Comet onwardshad to be titled under the troughs of the pitched rooves as it progressed towards the paintshop end. Even the “146 Assembly hall” built in 1987 was only really for fitting out and most of the process still took place in the original 1934 factory block.

September 11, 2005 at 11:08 pm in reply to: Rumour about scrapping of Manchester RJX? #1398748

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Not wishing to get off topic, but to my knowledge, there arent any budgies preserved anywhere. The trouble with more useful types such as the 748 and the 1-11 is that they tend to end up soldiering on, often in the developing world. The same will likely happen to the BAe 146.

Sounds like a little ( 😀 ) project for someone then, save a budgie. First off you need an aircraft and a potential home for it…… 😀 😀

September 11, 2005 at 9:05 pm in reply to: Rumour about scrapping of Manchester RJX? #1398943

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David, you are correct on all counts, G-SSSH was stretched to become the -300 prototype and re-reg’d G-LUXE and now flies as the FAAM research aircraft.

Michael – we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one… I am an engineer and so find all the testing equipment and layout quite interesting. I too have been on board it. Its one of only two remaining and since G-6-391 was scrapped, it is the youngest remaining airliner built in Britain 🙁
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