Come on! the engine nacelles are just the right length for V10’s:D 😀 😀

Snap David!:D 😀

I’d like to see an owner with the bottle to paint a Spitfire in German markings! I understand that at least one was re painted by the Germans after being captured! (& maybe a German fighter with RAF markings!) Just to get a bit of interest going!
See Ya!

Re: Blenheim: Initial AAIB Report

Originally posted by YakRider
The intial AAIB report into the Blenheim’s forced landing at Duxford has been published.

It appears that the right engine suffered fuel starvation because the cross feed was unable to pump fuel from the left tank during the left turn onto final.

YR

Copied from the AAIB report………….
‘Subsequent investigation showed that the right engine had failed through fuel starvation. When calculating the fuel required, the pilot had applied the consumption figures for a ‘weak’ mixture setting but had flown the flight with ‘normal’ mixture selected, consumption data for which was unknown. The investigation was unable to establish why the right hand engine had used more fuel than the left. Although fuel cross feed was selected, it appears to have been incapable of supplying fuel from the left tank to the right engine during the left banked turn onto finals.’

It says NOTHING about pumping fuel, read the AAIB report properly,
If you look at flying 1 hour at a weak mixture using say, 30 gallons per hour & you then fly with a normal mixture which will use say, 40 gallons per hour, it’s not rocket science to see that if there was 35 gallons at the start of the flight which would then give 5 gallons left in the tank on landing if you run on a weak mixture but if you run at normal mixture there is going to be a point near the end of the flight where the fuel will run out, add that to the possibility that there are not fuel pumps in the tanks to push fuel up hill in a turn you are only relying on the engine driven pumps which when the fuel level in the tank is low will only cross feed when straight & level, when banked in a turn there will be only fumes coming from the lower wing as the tank will have what little fuel there is up one end therefore the engine will surge & eventualy stop! There you have it.

When you rig a real one there should be a small amount of droop but not that much I’m afraid! only about 1/4”
Great models though!
Cheers………….

I thought it got sent home!!:confused:

It would be nice to have BBDG outside too for its arrival

If this is the Filton stored Concorde then you might not want to see it in it’s present state, nose, tail & most of the systems missing as I understand it.
I would be interested to know what the operating costs for Concorde were, hearing yesterday that the break even cost was 60% full anything over that they were in profit. I personally can’t see that the maintenance cost was any higher than say a 747, In fact, I would have thought as it is a smaller airframe cost should be less, as there is less of it! one problem of course is that where you can spread the cost of maintenance between 350 odd passengers in a 747 you can only spread it over 160 ish in Concorde.
It seems to me that the BA Concorde’s have been paid for twice by the British people, I could be wrong, the first time when the Government (tax payers) funded the BAC company for the development of the aircraft, the second time was when British Airways which I believe was funded by the Government (tax payers) at the time paid a large amount to the Government for the spares package which included the aircraft at £1 each so really with no capital investment they were onto a winner! Just thought of something else, If BA is a PLC then when it was floated on the stock market the aircraft cost must have been included as assets therefore included in the share price so public (Shareholders)(also maybe UK tax payers) paid for yet again! am I getting it wrong?? or is that 3 times??

Great pictures Damien!!

Concorde RIP

I think this is just another Government give away of our hard earned, we pay for something, It’s given away easy, when you don’t earn the money by hard work it has no value. Classic example was the recent war, what value has that been to the man/woman in the street? who paid for it? you & me, not the government, they have no money, only what we pay them in taxes. People rushed out to buy shares in the electricity privatisation why? when we already owned it! It’s very much the same for BA all they have had to do over the years is kick the tyres & light the fires (in simple terms) there has been no capital investment to re coup they didn’t have to pay more than a £1 so it’s easy for them to place the remaining Concorde where they want, the aircraft has no value, even less now as Airbus has pulled the plug on design support. I call it SHAMEFULL.