East Midlands, September 15th 1989

The Air Britain Hampden file (p 204) features two photos of the Hampden (P1310), in a dismantled state. The first photo’s location (by Peter Corbell) is not captioned, the second photo (by Arthur Pearcy) is at Bovingdon in December 1955 and captioned “presumably P1310” after arrival from Bicester.

Definitely happened at Coningsby!

I suspect your best chance of seeing a Shuttle from the UK is to hope for clear skies tonight at 1843.

http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=37371&lat=51.517&lng=-0.105&loc=London&alt=18&tz=GMT

The magnitude (second column) is actually very bright tonight (lower numbers = brighter) so it should be highly visible, cloud permitting.

Pacific Flyer

Are you talking from experience here? Or is this an uninformed guess?

Pacific Flyer is correct. The current Boeing Flight Crew Training Manual says :

“Begin the takeoff roll with the control wheel approximately centered. Throughout the takeoff roll, gradually increase control wheel displacement into the wind only enough to maintain approximately wings level.
Note: Excessive control wheel displacement during rotation and liftoff increases spoiler deployment. As spoiler deployment increases, drag increases and lift is reduced which results in reduced tail clearance, a longer takeoff roll, and slower airplane acceleration.”

Poor technique, with this driver cranking full into-wind aileron from the beginning of the take off roll, resulting in undesirable roll spoiler deployment…….a classic example of how not to do it!

158 knots of wind, smooth as silk (and not often you see 20 degrees of drift on a jet)

I suspect only someone associated with Loganair could have taken that photo

Certainly was, best fun paid flying in the UK!

Two more of the Student, taken July & September 1981