Thanks all.

We’ve been down at Coventry working in some really nasty weather the past few weeks, but it is paying off, as you can see. Hopefully in the next few days I’ll have some video for here, though there’s already some rough video and more pictures on the website.

The pre-oilers are working great, and we’re all keeping fit running the props through (four minutes for each engine! 😮 )
before even attempting to start.

Our trolley acc took a battering in the freezing temperatures and the batteries appear to be toast. Even leaving them on charge hasn’t revived them, so Classic Flight kindly lent is a GPU, we couldn’t have run today if it hadn’t been for that kind gesture.

Thanks to all at Classic Flight for that, it was very much appreciated.

No 3 engine was the first to start, and caught on the second attempt. It took a while to come on the throttle and smooth out, but we put that down to the fact everything has been taken off it, moved or disconnected in the last 12 months. When it did smooth out, it ran great. No 4 behaved as if it hadn’t missed more than a couple of days since it last ran.

Both engines were run up individually, the temps and pressures all as they should be. Bomb doors and flaps all got a work out though we haven’t got pneumatics online yet as we’re still having issues with the air bottles. If the dates are to be believed we can’t use them until the’re inspected. The date on at least one bottle says “Next Insp 7.61 ” :eek::eek:

I just can’t get my head around how well behaved 963 was today though. We even had little things like the windscreen wipers working. The only issues we encountered was a problem with the external intercom, the navigation lights wouldn’t work, and one landing lamp was sticking down.

I’ve never seen so many happy faces from our little group. They can see 963 coming back to life, and in the next few weeks you’re all going to see the pace pick up further. Hopefully next time we’ll be able to show you three running, and four shortly after that.

When we get four Roger, you’ll hear her no matter which way the wind’s blowing!

Regards,

Rich

Richard, you can count me in, if you’ll still have me up there, ill come up any free saturdays I have :nod: add me to the email list.

Having seen her for a few minutes the other weekend, I miss her 🙁

Feel slightly lost without shackleton to play with!

I always thought that concorde was a slightly re modeled Avro 730

Its quite a coincidence to deny when you look at the profiles!

Same for the BBC news where I heard this first? Lol I don’t do papers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12366887

The Ghost Thread Creator Has Been At Work Again….

Fail to see what rule my last post broke? :rolleyes:

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And

AND!

Whats more frustrating than any other single fact, is that she knows what she’s like and does nothing about it – If I thought I was going to lose someone I really loved because of my inactivity id do EVERYTHING I could to stop it and just get the **** on with it

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I know – Its impossible though when she cries I just cant deal with it lol

Im not a cheating tit, I think ive realised that im with her because I dont want to upset her not because I want to be with her anymore 🙁

Thanks guys 🙂

BSG – Yes current one is the one in the middle 🙂 and contrary to how it looks, theyre not the best of friends :diablo:

Im just so fedup of being her comfort blanket, waiting around for her to grow up and do something. She just doesnt seem to have any passion for me, she says she loves me and yet after all this time still doesnt want to sleep with me. I mean that ace time when you really love/want someone and you’ve been apart for a while, get together and like pounce on eachother etc – Never get that with my current one, she whinges when I try and take her hoodie off sat in front of the tv lol.

I feel like she gets all the positives of a proper relationship and gives hugs and a few pecks back… there is literally nothing physical in my relationship and its been a problem now for longer than i can remember – I think ive just round out of patience waiting now.

I dont feel sad really, I think I accepted a long time ago that it was going to end and have just been carrying it on because I hate upsetting her and the vauge hope that she’ll change 🙁

meeting possibly the fittest girl ive met in ages, having masses more in common with her than my current mrs, First time ive felt this attracted to someone since I first met my current one

Being utterly fedup of my current girlfriend of 2 years 4 months and still waiting for her to actually want to sleep with me

Now trying to work out what the hell to do 🙁 Ive spent so long trying to work out what the “wrong feeling” in my life was, changed everything I thought it was and its still there, Ive concluded its my current Mrs 🙁

******* W***ING ****

As above with baz etc

In all fairness though chap – If IF you get a good well looked after classic that has a documented history you know what you’re letting yourself in for a bit better.

It doesnt guarantee it wont be a ******* but it does minimise the risk of accidentally choosing one.

Depending on my mileage – Id either have an Old Mini or an MGB GT 🙂

My perfect daily would be a Tax Exempt MGBGT that had been reshelled in the last 5-10 years (unless the shell is perfect) Modern front and rear suspension kits and a 2.0 lite turbocharded nissan engine 🙂

OR

An old mini with a honda B16 Vtec engine in the front :diablo:

Then you argue… Is it still a proper classic?? :diablo: