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« Reply #30 on: October 18, 2007, 12:53:48 pm » |
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« Reply #31 on: October 18, 2007, 01:00:46 pm » |
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Yep, but sadly the bloody internet gateway at work won't let us on to sites like that, because they involve moving pictures - a bit modern for us as it might subvert people or something ridiculous...frustrating! MG Mark |
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« Reply #32 on: October 18, 2007, 01:32:09 pm » |
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Up Up and Away, live on Sky News. Hurrah!
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« Reply #33 on: October 18, 2007, 01:36:27 pm » |
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« Reply #34 on: October 18, 2007, 01:47:53 pm » |
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Oh to have been able to be at or near Bruntingthorpe today, to feel the ground shake and hear the might roar of 4 Olympuses (or is it Olympi) on song  MG Mark |
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« Reply #35 on: October 18, 2007, 04:18:52 pm » |
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« Reply #36 on: October 18, 2007, 07:19:53 pm » |
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Awesume, just wish i had known and i would have booked the day off work. Going out for several drinks tonight to celebrate her return, back where she belongs, up in the sky.
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« Reply #37 on: October 18, 2007, 08:32:07 pm » |
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Awesume, just wish i had known and i would have booked the day off work. Going out for several drinks tonight to celebrate her return, back where she belongs, up in the sky.
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« Reply #39 on: October 19, 2007, 12:53:31 am » |
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« Reply #40 on: October 19, 2007, 09:42:19 am » |
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Great pictures Peter, Thanks.
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« Reply #41 on: October 19, 2007, 09:50:15 am » |
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« Reply #42 on: October 19, 2007, 09:50:39 am » |
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Great Photos Peter!
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« Reply #43 on: October 19, 2007, 10:02:06 am » |
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Peter,
Excellent pictures and you lucky, lucky chap to have been there. Sadly, work kept me incarcerated in London, fuming over the internet gateway on our system, which won't allow video streams from news sites, youtube and the like, so we had to make do with the continual updates that were pouring into pprune which was better than nothing, but caught it on the news later. With the best of weather to do her air test, she looked resplendent on the ground and glorious in the air.
As for scrap iron and decibel levels, a heck of a lot of redundant kit has been stripped out (radar, ecm, all the old weapons, nav kit, miles of wiring etc etc) - from talking to her engineers a couple of weeks ago, I know thay have had to do plenty of weighing and c of g calculations and revisions during the restoration. I'm not sure what fuel load she had on board, but I wouldn't imagine that it was a full load for a 30min trip and, with Bruntingthorpe's 10,000 foot runway and her relatively low wing loading, the crew wouldn't have needed to bend the throttle stops to get her in the air, so they were probably treating the old girl gently - indeed, she may even have surprised them with how sprightly she was off the stops!
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« Reply #44 on: October 19, 2007, 10:39:59 am » |
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I'll post a few more if I can later on , another flight today, the crew were overjoyed after the flight BUT also totally knackered.
The engineers were working on 558 till 23:00 the night before preparing her for the flight. For something that was a 'secret' a lot of people knew about it, i've been keeping a day open for the last few months, just waiting for the phone call to say it was on.
Be lovely to see them when you get time. Could you PM me with any ideas on flight times for today? My old dad is not far away and I'd like to give him a ring to let him know if he can get across - he goes across to Cosford regularly for volunteer work, and I took him to the TVOC Hangar open Day a few weeks ago - it was great time together and for him as an ex-RAF fitter and De Havilland apprentice, looking at something that was going to fly again rather than a static exhibit really gave him a new spark. MG Mark |
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