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Wigan: Great stuff! STVI is doing a great job of maintaining yaw .. despite her lacking a starboard vertical stabiliser.
SJ: Clear evidence that KT was no longer in the Ferranti fold. Flying with ghw's attached was strictly
'verboten' as Col. Bob would say. Not however due to reasons of safety but .. aesthetics!
The ghw's did, as you say, dislodge quite easily once tension was released and one assumes therefore that for flight they were fastened by some additional means to the skid.
Some further blasts from the past include this Air Kilroe 206 and Compass' BEHG (which has featured previously on this thread) departing from in front of the Robertson's Foods hangar at Bristol in August 1986.
S.