Ant chance you could elaborate a bit on that?

I’m still not sure if its a ship or an aircraft :p

Sorry, no. I thought perhaps some of our Aussie readers could fill that in. The plane in question was the same type of Focker as the Southern Cross, and it was located either in northern NSW or southern Queensland. That’s all I remember.

It flew at a rate of knots, and has port and starboard sides… 😉

Bri 🙂

How about the Focker that was recovered in Australia, after being lost for 30 years or more. I think it was either ‘Southern Cross’ or a sister ship.

By the way, is the real Southern Cross still preserved at Brisbane airport?

Bri 🙂

Further to my previous entry, here is the C-124s engineer’s panel:

http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/vintage/c124/bin/c124_26.jpg

I wonder if today’s flight engineers could handle all this?

Bri 😀

The Rover gas turbine was originally intended for automotive purposes. It was first fitted in a Rover 105 as I recall (anyone remember them?).

I once met the elderly and very distinguished head curator of the Kensington Science Museum. He told me that when the Rover gas turbine car was presented to the museum, he accompanied the driver who delivered it.

Sitting in the car, he noticed the rev counter hovering about the ‘5’ mark and assumed it was idling at 500rpm (being used to petrol engines). The driver exclaimed “Good Lord No, that’s 5000rpm!

Memory may have that number wrong, but you get the drift!

No doubt it will be corrected. :rolleyes:

Bri 🙂

I bet the passengers still complained about being late…

Bri :diablo:

It is the pitot tube for the air speed indicator.

John.

Sorry, John, for a slight correction.

It is a ‘pressure head’, which accepts both pitot and static pressure.

I bench-checked them at Boscombe Down.

Bri 🙂

To watch the Digital Ice de-dusting and the automatic colour restoration in action is an entertainment in itself. It’s been particularly effective on some ancient Ektachromes bequeathed to my by a family friend from the Farnborough show in the early 1960s. but the question is, which one?AWilliam

William, I have searched the Internet for a Digital Ice scanner and come up with zilch. Could you give more information on it such as the make and/or a website please?

Bri :confused:

If you open that Airliners.net web page and use the bottom scrollbar, the Frightener flies across the screen!

Bri 😀