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  • January 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm in reply to: EE Lightning Crash In Overberg SA, 14/11/09 #1093682
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    Hmmmmm well yes I know a air bit about the bird. I spend most weekends on or about an F53 up to 9 weeks a year in the US on xs422. been working on theast trip report poring over 100+ photographs of the “back end” and I am still at a loss to say with even the slightest bit of certainty what went wrong.
    Except given the run up to the flight it should not have flown.
    I know a little more of the matter than you do but not enough to be meaningful.
    So lets just sit on out fingers 6 weeks to an interim Rep. is not bad going at all so we will get a fuller report in due course.
    Just for something to think on The RSAF had around 40 odd lightnings and they came back with somewhere near say 2000 on average. I think they only lost one due to a technical failure. So shall we say 35 airframes at 2K hours total that’s 75,000 hours. I was at RSAF Tabuk and we usually made our 60% OR rate.
    OK so how did we do it? Loads ‘a Money, the design authority in charge, and quite frankly at Tabuk any way one of the best teams I have have the honour to work with.
    The Lightning is like a Suffolk sheep??? A death waiting to happen!!!
    It is up to the engineering crew to postpone the inevitable, indefinitely if possible, a great nipper of the A**E that one. Remember 75K hours is not bad not bad at all. I anyone has better knowledge of the total hours flown in Saudi would love to hear
    jb154

    Well thanks, but, even allowing for your specialist knowledge I think the thread has agreed to await the report. Then the speculation can end and comment is valid.

    January 2, 2010 at 11:27 am in reply to: Miles Whitney Straight #1093921
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    This would be Turweston.:)

    http://www.turwestonflight.com/

    Photo of ‘ERV flying here.

    http://ukga.com/airfield/turweston/reviews

    Seems to be a little confusion whether the airfield in is Northamptonshire or Buckinghamshire?:confused:

    Thanks for that – as its address is Brackley, I would plump for Northamptonshire but who knows………….;)

    January 2, 2010 at 10:41 am in reply to: Miles Whitney Straight #1093959
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    G-AERV is very much alive and well and based at Turweston. I don’t think it flies too much as it always seems to be at the back of the hangar when I have been there.

    Is that Turweston near Northampton?

    January 2, 2010 at 9:44 am in reply to: Miles Whitney Straight #1094084
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    My 2006 list of Airworthy Miles aircraft shows the following information on M11A Whitney Straights

    G-AERV C/No 307 Built 1936 Currently in Rebuild by Ron Souch

    G-AEUG C/no 313 Buiilt 1937 Believed to be at Sleap in 2008

    I would suggest that more up-to-date information is contained in Peter Amos’ book
    Miles Aircraft Vol 1 The Early Years 1925 to 1939 Appendix 19

    Thanks dailee1. New Year aberration, because I have the Miles book and have been dipping here and there but only covering the first years at Shoreham without realising that it had such a comprehensive series of Appendices and which are so up to date.

    This thread has achieved its purpose!:o

    January 2, 2010 at 8:40 am in reply to: Miles Whitney Straight #1094094
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    G-AEUJ was stored at Sutton Coldfield. G-AERV was stored at Upper Ballinderry. This is not curent info. but a start for you.:)

    ‘ERV would seem to be very much alive and flying!

    Many thanks, Newforest. Your info lead me to the the Civil Register so that I could see the history of these two, presumably only remaining examples in the UK. And if ERV is still flying as evidenced by the 2009 photo that is wonderful.

    January 2, 2010 at 6:55 am in reply to: General Discussion #350841
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    “The Reader” – Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. Excellent – well written, beautifully directed by Stephen Daldry with superb understated performances from the whole cast.

    January 2, 2010 at 6:55 am in reply to: The Last Film You Saw….. 3D!!!! #1918428
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    “The Reader” – Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. Excellent – well written, beautifully directed by Stephen Daldry with superb understated performances from the whole cast.

    January 1, 2010 at 11:07 am in reply to: New Year resolutions #1918526
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    Fact: 67% percent of New Years Resolutions are broken by St valentine’s Day. :diablo:

    More likely fact: 90% of Resolutions are broken before the end of January.:D

    January 1, 2010 at 11:07 am in reply to: General Discussion #351053
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    Fact: 67% percent of New Years Resolutions are broken by St valentine’s Day. :diablo:

    More likely fact: 90% of Resolutions are broken before the end of January.:D

    January 1, 2010 at 11:05 am in reply to: Thames Estuary Airport #494510
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    If there were good rail links, the need for dozens of flights to places like Manchester every day would be removed and that extra capacity would serve the international flights …. perhaps?

    Exactly. Flying to UK regional airports makes very little sense. If there were no domestic flights from Heathrow someone on here will know exactly how many slots would be released.

    As for a new Thames Airport at probably £100 billion by the time it is finished the money just isn’t there. Private investors cannot see the return and the public purse is bust. We need to spend what we have to borrow on key capital projects like nuclear power stations or even conventional power stations, if Cameron has the balls to tear up our ludicrous emmission targets.

    Energy is what we will be desperate for very soon, not runways.

    January 1, 2010 at 6:58 am in reply to: General Discussion #351172
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    [QUOTE=’568 crew;1509111]:D[/QUOTE]

    Later would be good…………….:D

    January 1, 2010 at 6:58 am in reply to: Budding Aviation Writer #1918552
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    [QUOTE=’568 crew;1509111]:D[/QUOTE]

    Later would be good…………….:D

    December 31, 2009 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Budding Aviation Writer #1918604
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    He’s back – for the New Year……………..:o

    December 31, 2009 at 7:35 pm in reply to: General Discussion #351207
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    He’s back – for the New Year……………..:o

    December 31, 2009 at 5:15 pm in reply to: General Discussion #351331
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    This incident invites more questions than there will ever be answers. But in an attempt to simplify the case I will pose two questions.

    1. If he was suffering from any sort of mental illness why was his journey to China not closely supervised and accompanied?

    2. If he was not suffering from a mental illness and was just stupid enough to be duped then he has paid the penalty.

    Anyone travelling to countries with very different legal systems than our own should be aware of the potential risks before they travel.

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