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Old 14th Dec 2012, 14:42
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LAS1997
 
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Next time we will switch the radio to the tower! ZI is just bite size you may say, in otherwords just the flight deck section! At least she is 'live' and wearing her 1971 BEA colours. We rescued her remains from a scrap yard in Hampshire back in 2003; her flight deck was just a shell, no instruments, no seats, no control columns, etc. It took a year to restore her and another year to re-wire and get her to work again (stick shaker, stall warning horn, engine fire bell); we can even get an engine to start using the engine start switches linked to a CD player with a recording of a Rolls-Royce Spey starting up; since then she has been on display at the FAST museum and commenced another career appearing in UFO / air safety documentaies and even a pop video! Come down some time and be reunited with an old friend, Trident three G-AWZI. FAST museum open 1000-1600 Saturday & Sunday's, closed over Xmas period though.
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