The Buccaneer Aviation Group had another successful weekend at the recent Bruntingthorpe open day.
Hard to believe we started off all those years ago as like minded individuals and have since come together as a group with four Buccaneers in our care!
More of my photos can be seen here:
http://tbag.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1314570741&start=0#1314649706
Cheers, Plazz
The Buccaneer Aviation Group had another successful weekend at the recent Bruntingthorpe open day.
Hard to believe we started off all those years ago as like minded individuals and have since come together as a group with four Buccaneers in our care!
More of my photos can be seen here:
http://tbag.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1314570741&start=0#1314649706
Cheers, Plazz
Well, we finally run the newly installed Spey fitted to XW544!
Both port and starboard Spey’s were run in turn for the first time in 27 years with only a small handful of snags to fix.
A few photos…
Some video footage here:
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/plazzdaman/XW544/?action=view¤t=XW544-1.mp4
The port wing wiring was also completed along with the port aileron cables.
All being well 544 will be run on both engines simultaneously in a few weeks time!
Buccaneer XW544
Buccaneer XW544’s starboard wing wiring was finally sorted out yesterday!
Before…
After…
The port wing will get the same treatment in shortly!
Also, both engines were dry spooled in preparation for a run in a few weeks time. This was the first time that the starboard engine was spun over since fitting to the fuselage!
A little bit of video footage here:
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/plazzdaman/XW544/?action=view¤t=XW544-01.mp4
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/plazzdaman/XW544/?action=view¤t=XW544-02.mp4
Finally XW554’s starboard Spey has been fitted!! Yesterday morning started off with a successful ground run in the stand and then in the afternoon the Spey was transplanted from the stand into the airframe.
The capacious engine bay…
The Spey finally back where it belongs…
Nacelle re-fitted… Job done!
Now, the eagle eyed among you will perhaps notice that the weather conditions and time of day appear to change half way through the re-fit process. This is not an illusion because when the engine was first fitted in the afternoon we could not get it to pick up on the main fuselage mounting point? To our horror we soon realized that the main fixing was missing from the Spey. If only we had checked first!! So out came the engine again for the part to be fitted (which was robbed off of the unused side of the port engine). In the end we wrapped things up around 10pm but at least we know that in just a few weeks time our hard work will pay off when we get to see 544 roar in to life on both engines for the first time in 27 years!
Plazz
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