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Old 10th May 2014, 03:19
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Wally Mk2
 
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Great pix of the deathstar:-)

Many years ago up in Tammy in another life I used to work on a 701P I think the owner used to call it, a Machen Mod job 700 as far as I remember & it had twin turbo'd Lycs producing over 400 gee gee's a side on 4 blade stubby props. This thing was a beast, green in colour & owned by an ex CX driver if I recall. I only went in it once in the circuit at Tammy & it was like a winged bullet, don't think the driver looked outside the window once,(apart from landing) his head buried inside with all the fancy gadgets of the day keeping him "Airline" oriented!
He said lose a donk on T/Off & hang on tight whilst standing on the rudder pedal 'till it's pushed thru the floor....scary stuff!

Wish I had a piccy of it, back in those days no Mob Ph's with cameras around.

Had a very interesting end to it's life, that much I'll never 4get

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