How do you miss Salisbury exactly? Maybe the spire isn’t a large enough landmark. Ho hum. No bloody Vulcan on Saturday either. Bolleaux.

It must be true! It was on BBC South Today! Just after the piece about the buried Stirlings at Stoney Cross.

Watched this and had to check I hadn’t inadvertently tuned in to Daily Mail TV. Good effort on the part of the driver (airframes) but I did notice one serious omission – at no point did anyone mention wrestling with the controls to avoid a school/village/monastery/brewery. How can he be a hero pilot if he didn’t wrestle with the controls?

Also interesting to note that retracting the u/c is a bit like putting a car into neutral. Really?

More accurately , the headline should surely be, “…in the UK for the FIRST time”? (I assume, since it’s Canadian-built). Or did it come across in more recent times?

It may have passed through UK enroute to Burma before being crated.:dev2:

Did a few at Rollason’s in the late 1960s/early 70s. From what I remember it was just a case of fitting an elbow toward the back end of the top cover and the running suitable pipework into the existing scavenge system. There was probably more to it than that but it was a long time ago.

RB

Various versions of the Lynx did not meet with success…that may be an understatement. I’d like to know why as well.
Witness the WG 30 “heli-airliner” (my word not Westland’s).

I’d lie to know why it failed. Many years ago, I visited the Beccles heliport and was shown a couple of fairly new airframes withdrawn from service. the same thing happened with the Los Angeles helicopter airways examples.

It seems a shame to withdraw nearly new aircraft, so there must have been something wrong with them.

Clearly, you never worked on the Lynx or any of the derivatives. Over-engineered requiring over-maintaining. Civil operators cannot afford 17 – 20 maintenance man hours / flying hour.

I am still astounded that the MoD has signed up to another 30 years of purgatory with the Wildcat (a.k.a. Lynx).

But back on thread – the IHM is a great place to visit (and features three aircraft I worked on).

RB