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Old 3rd Sep 2007, 07:56
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Four days to Hong Kong, then go u/s
Since when did a Belfast make it all the way to Honkers without going u/s along the way?

364 held the record. Eastabout via Oz arriving back in UK with none of the original engines - six engine changes en-route. (The one in Gan must have been genuine.) I was on that Gan team and it took us four days to adjust full power. The Rolls Royce graphs went down to -30° C but only went up to +25° C so we had to interpolate them and then do the engine adjustments at 2 am when the temperature dropped to about 28° C.

Out here in Borneo we recently chartered the last airworthy (?) Belfast to transport an engine. It promptly went u/s en-route from Brisbane and diverted to Denpasar for a week to have one of its own engines replaced. In the meantime we got a good old reliable Antonov in to do the job.
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