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DaveO'Leary
24th Dec 2005, 16:14
Just a little quiz, name the a/c...............
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/dazdaz1/ac1.jpg
forget
24th Dec 2005, 16:17
Errrrrrrrr. Trident.
Shaggy Sheep Driver
24th Dec 2005, 16:26
Three of everything. And it ain't no Trislander. Nor, with those yokes, 727. So it's the venerable dH 121 indeed. But which mark??
SSD
Sir George Cayley
24th Dec 2005, 16:31
Look out an HS121 thread !
Take cover here come all those old.........
"It did Mach decimal blah blah"
"Boeing copied it blah blah"
etc etc
Sir George Cayley
Loved em actually. I remember coming back from.............
Shaggy Sheep Driver
24th Dec 2005, 17:40
And we've got one at Manchester. Two if you count the one the fire service regularly set fire to.
Pity the last one to fly in UK, G-AWZO, was broken up at Hatfield some years ago.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/GZK6NK/G-AWZO.jpg
SSD
DaveO'Leary
26th Dec 2005, 15:19
Well done Sir; Trident 3....
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/dazdaz1/Trident3BG-AWYZ.jpg
Well done guys, now try this a/c.........
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/dazdaz1/q1.jpg
Swifty_N
26th Dec 2005, 16:04
Supermarine Swift???
Probably wrong, a/c recognition not a strong point!
Mr_Grubby
26th Dec 2005, 16:04
Supermarine Swift FR5, XD953, 79 Sqd. 9th Oct. 1956.
A more challenging question would be to identify over which country the Trident is flying.
I think it is Northern Cyprus.
Clint.
chevvron
27th Dec 2005, 15:33
Probably wrong but the DECCA Flight Log in the centre of the panel would tend to indicate Trident 1 rather than 3.
Many ATCO cadet courses in the '70's trained on the Trident sims at Viking House, Southall. 2 week course - great fun!
The three had the booster engine (giving it five including the APU) which seemed to be a bit difficult to light. I remember many times at Glasgow seeing clouds of unburnt fuel vapour billowing from the efflux, followed by a huge gout of flame as it lit! The BUA one-eleven which was invariably following was not amused.
Vfrpilotpb
27th Dec 2005, 17:31
Looks a bit like the Concord(e) with that steer Horn assembly for the yolk, when do we find out?
Peter R-B
Vfr
DaveO'Leary
27th Dec 2005, 17:39
It's the Trident, f/d not Mk3 (my error) but it's a nice photo, I've enlarged it. I recon photo taken over Malaga....
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/dazdaz1/Trident3BG-AWYZ.jpg
Well done Mr Grubby twas the Swift.
chevvron
27th Dec 2005, 18:13
Air to air is definitely a three - you can see the booster.
Don't know where it was taken though; the air hasn't got the bluish tinge of the eastern Med
Shaggy Sheep Driver
28th Dec 2005, 21:17
Name the aeroplane:
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/GZK6NK/underabridge.jpg
SSD
DCDriver
28th Dec 2005, 21:38
yup, Vulcan.
And judging by the era, "somewhere near Woodford in the late '50's"
dcd
Shaggy Sheep Driver
28th Dec 2005, 22:53
Yup, Vulcan en route from Chadderton factory to Woodford airfield for assembly and flight. Much as Lancasters did a couple of decades earlier.
SSD
Woomera
29th Dec 2005, 00:53
And an Austin truck??? :}
Standard and Triumph - almost long forgotten names. Used to love my TR3A almost 40 years ago......... :ugh:
DaveO'Leary
29th Dec 2005, 17:58
Name the engine, exact version req.........
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/dazdaz1/Q1.jpg
DCDriver
30th Dec 2005, 10:50
It looks like a die-cast model.....so I'll opt for a Herpa CFM56-5B
DaveO'Leary
31st Dec 2005, 16:11
Spot on Sir :ok:
Onan the Clumsy
31st Dec 2005, 16:22
...but the tailcone is a little elongated for a 56
does the model include the strakes on the inboard cowlings?
DaveO'Leary
31st Dec 2005, 16:41
You guys/gals are good. I think I might get a few of you with this photo.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/dazdaz1/photo1.jpg
DO
Onan don't be perdantic :*
surely not
31st Dec 2005, 16:56
Russian Wing in Ground Effect jobby............ no idea what its name is though
forget
31st Dec 2005, 17:02
Try Beriev....................Lun Ekranoplan, missile launchers above the fuselage.
Footless Halls
31st Dec 2005, 17:13
The Caspian Sea Monster!
DCDriver
31st Dec 2005, 17:22
looks like something the girlies take downroute with them...:D :D
surely not
31st Dec 2005, 18:29
isn't that dinosaur based DC Driver? :D
DCDriver
1st Jan 2006, 16:27
surely not....me, or it??
surely not
1st Jan 2006, 17:23
It!! I wouldn't know how you look but hopefully you've not got the looks of a Dinosaur!
Vfrpilotpb
2nd Jan 2006, 09:56
Truck pulling Vulcan through bridge was a "Commer Commet" for its day a very impressive and powerful truck it was powered by 1 Horrizontally oppsed all aloominum suprcharged 6 cyl two stroke diesel, it transfered the power through its very own 4 speed gearbox with a splitter on the final drive(to give effectivly 8 ratios) the coupling fom tractor to trailer would have been a standard "Scammell Coupling"
Absolute heap of Sh**te by todays standard, but then it was the king of many roads in Gt Britain and the Empire!!
and a bigger coincidence I have an Standard Vanguard Phase 2 1953 in Jet Black, in nearly pristine condition, originally purchased by some person of power from Hollindrakes at Stockport!
In those days my school atlas world cartograph was nearly all red!
PeterR-B