Originally Posted by
Hobo
....PM - I've still got a couple of those melted blades myself! It was my 2nd engine failure - I seem to recall it was your first - do I remember P3 telling us it was his 8th?!! 30 years ago and it almost seems like yesterday. Great days eh?
I'm pretty sure that it was my only engine failure in BA...Although I did do a three engine ferry on the Vanguard. I had a few engine failures on fighters in the RAF and one of those involved a dead stick wheels up landing...The others I managed to relight.
I expect you are finding like me, that time flashes by at an incredible rate when you are retired...Every time I reach an age, devisable by 10, when I thought I would be old, I find myself saying "No I won't be properly old till (age+10)". I'm approaching another one of those points and wondering if I will say it again.
Yes they were all great days and I find myself thinking about them a lot. Here is a PowerPoint presentation that I made this year about events in my life Fifty years ago:-
http://www.petermcleland.com/powerpo...n_in_Kenya.pps
The download will take at least 5 minutes and you must have Microsoft's Powerpoint to view it...A free download of Powerpoint Viewer can be obtained here:-
Download details: PowerPoint Viewer 2007
Nice to speak to you again "A"...Surprised to find this much interest in the old Trident.