Plenty of thin stuff with docs. Nothing anywhere near that thick though!

Looks almost like the forerunner to the very common Didsbury mini hoist that has been used as ground equipment for years in the RAF.

The company is still going today. http://www.didsbury.com/didsbury.minilift.asp

if applied using a hand operated spray bottle, cutting out all the solvents and propellants used to get oil based lubricants to spray.

I’m not sure I’d be recommending spraying the stuff without the proper safety gear.
I seem to recall even back in the 80’s when health and safety wasn’t nearly so prevalent we had to wear good masks when spaying the stuff on Tornado wings. If it gets in your lungs it’s not good news at all!.

I’ve said it many times before – Ryanair has not been and still is not good for the industry.

1. Ryanair has degraded the terms, conditions and pay of those working in the industry to the extent where the industry is not a pleasant place to work anymore. I don’t believe ANYONE has the right to travel by air so cheaply that the consequence is that those who work for and supply the industry can find it hard to survive
2. Ryanair is a nasty airline. I don’t believe anyone actually LIKES flying with Ryanair. Some business travellers may well fly with the airline, but they do so only because of company policy dictating the cheapest (as per PeeDee) or because they are the only viable travel option between the points the passenger needs to travel between. Even leisure travellers don’t actually like flying with Ryanair – they tollerate the airline, but only to get the cheap fares and to fly more often than the otherwise would. Of course when the relationship between what customers expect to pay and what they are forced to pay breaks down (as was the case with these students), trouble may well follow. Take the nastiness of the charging out of the equation and some of the problems created by Ryanair and the likes go away
3. Sure the old-boys network airlines overcharged in the past and to an extent that had to change, but now that we have fares that are way cheaper than the cost of production/supply. Ryanair has artifially created demand that in a world where the environment and climate change IS an issue that has to be acknowledged by the industry (even if I don’t believe in it) – demand that would best be taken out of the market right now
4. It was said by Scumbag O’Riley that he wanted air travel to be like getting on a bus – well he got it because all of the anti-social behaviour that’s a feature of some city buses (especially late night buses) is being replicated in air travel. Sorry, but until the mega-cheap fares came along there just wasn’t the level of air rage and poor behaviour that is reported regularly now. So part of the blame HAS to be placed at the doors of those who travel now but didn’t do so often in the past, and by the way the low-fare airlines do business that results in unnecessary confrontation over things like fees
5. The airline world will genuinely become a better place again once the likes of Ryanair are gone – and by the way, I genuinely believe that the raw low-fare model will break down to some degree in the not too distant future. Sure, airlines won’t go back to the overly-expensive fare structures that existed in the past and some lower fares will stay. But like I say, dragging everything down to the lowest common denominator results in overly congested airports, stress, hassle, bad behaviour, and poor terms and conditions for suppliers and workers. I don’t care – I don’t accept that people have a right to fly half way across Europe for a fiver, not when the “costs” of doing so are taken into consideration. Everything has been dragged down by this plague on the industry, and the consequences are becoming more and more obvious. Sooner or later, people will tire of it, or governments will price it out of existance

Andy

The spite and bile you spew at Ryanair is quite comical. In your blinkered view of the world there seems to be no other low cost carrier, and you put the blame at Ryanairs door and no one elses.
It seems that transgressions by flag carriers are dismissed as things of the past, yet god forbid Ryanair does anything wrong!

Nope, I shall reply no more as I know someone with such bitter and blinkered views will not listen to any argument, no matter how rational they are.

The day that horrible airline Ryanair and its nasty passengers (OK, not all passengers, not even all of Ryanair’s, are nasty) disappears from the scene the airline world will be better off… Fares will be able to go up, airports will be less congested, travel will become less stressful, flying by air will become more civilised again – and disposing of much of the unnecessary and frivolous travel will go some way to helping the airline industry answering back on criticism from the climate-changer looney-brigade. Ryanair is like a plague on the industry. No appology from me – just a day that IMHO can’t come soon enough.

Andy

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such tosh written about air travel.

So in your mind only people who can afford expensive travel for something worthwhile like business deserve to fly?
You seem to have some sort of Victorian attitude to ‘normal’ people being able to fly off abroad on a holiday.
What’s next some sort of dress code? Only lounge suits and twin set and pearls allowed?

You moan about Ryanair’s business practices and how they drive a hard deal on the suppliers, then in the next braeth you wish Ryanair would go out of business, and most likely taking a lot of it’s suppliers with them. I expect this will be ok with you though, as this means a lot more people of council estates won’t be able to afford to fly.
People with attitudes like your disgust me.

There’s been a lot of talk about this where I work as quite a few of the chaps travel down from the Norwich area, so this would be ideal for them.
There’s talk of aircraft flying in and being parted out, so in essence it’s a scrapping process. There’s also meant to be support workshops to clean and certify removed components.
Once the aircraft have been dismantled the remains are to be removed by road.