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The new ground to air missile being test fired.

I made it to Duxford yesterday. Got there at 07.30, the car park for non-ticket holders was full, so I had to park a mile away and walk. Someone from Nottingham left home at 03.30 to get there for 05.30.

When the Lancs arrived on time, the hairs on the back of my neck started moving. What a lovely site. Does anyone know what height they were restricted to, as they seemed quite high.

When I left after Sally B flew, I walked from the entrance for 22 mins and there were still people looking at 15.15, standing in fields, sitting in parked cars on verges watching a mile away.

Does anyone know how many were there? It was packed.

On the mobile phone contact theme, what would happen if a passenger became suspicious, sent a text, there was no signal over the sea, the text did not go, the plane then flew back over Malaysia, the phone was still turned on but the passenger was incapacitated due to hypoxia?

Would the text get transmitted when the signal was restored, or would it need the passenger to send the resend button, which they couldn’t because they were incapacitated?

Just worth knowing in case, God forbid, the same thing happens over the sea/ocean. Maybe send a text saying what happened, and put the phone carefully in a floaty cushion to become a message in a bottle.

I have no doubt that no messages were received from any of the passengers, which does seem to point to hypoxia and everyone falling asleep. I cannot think the plane was working normally when it flew back over Malaysia with all the passengers wondering why the map was not working, with not one of them trying to make phone contact.

I managed to get some very adult TV programs (by mistake when scanning through) on a 3″ battery TV in the mid 1990’s over Germany at 30,000+ ft, so a signal must be possible up there.

‘Disabling’ it…..is it still up there???

I was told, when learning to fly, that the idea was to keep the number of take-off and landings the same !

Next time I am in the Pimlico area I will have a look.

Its Mk XIX PM631, during its time with BBMF.

Its tied down for an engine run – presumably at some power looking at the tie downs.

I know no more!

Bruce

A Mk XIX with a 4 bladed prop? Tie downs to 120kg of building blocks? 2050 HP? I am not convinced.

PA931 at Gatwick Airport awaiting to be scrapped.

went out and back over Brooklands this evening as well heading West under 1000ft at 1915, as the para doors were closed I put the pitchfork away..

They don’t like the cold steel sir, they don’t like it up’em.

Anyone else see a Ju 52 flying over Hendon (RAF museum fly past?) early this evening? I thought it was a Dakota from its sound and shape, until I put my glasses on and saw the third engine.

I am not aware of anything else that looks similar with 3 engines, so I think it must have been a Ju52.