Name the a/c (Merged)

[DaveO'Leary]

Name the a/c

Just a little quiz, name the a/c...............

[forget]

Errrrrrrrr. Trident.

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

Three of everything. And it ain't no Trislander. Nor, with those yokes, 727. So it's the venerable dH 121 indeed. But which mark??

SSD

[Sir George Cayley]

AAaaaarrrrghhhhh

Look out an HS121 thread !

Take cover here come all those old.........

"It did Mach decimal blah blah"

"Boeing copied it blah blah"

etc etc

Sir George Cayley

Loved em actually. I remember coming back from.............

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

And we've got one at Manchester. Two if you count the one the fire service regularly set fire to.

Pity the last one to fly in UK, G-AWZO, was broken up at Hatfield some years ago.




SSD

[DaveO'Leary]

Forget

Well done Sir; Trident 3....



Well done guys, now try this a/c.........

[Swifty_N]

Supermarine Swift???

Probably wrong, a/c recognition not a strong point!

[Mr_Grubby]

Supermarine Swift FR5, XD953, 79 Sqd. 9th Oct. 1956.

A more challenging question would be to identify over which country the Trident is flying.
I think it is Northern Cyprus.


Clint.

[chevvron]

Probably wrong but the DECCA Flight Log in the centre of the panel would tend to indicate Trident 1 rather than 3.
Many ATCO cadet courses in the '70's trained on the Trident sims at Viking House, Southall. 2 week course - great fun!
The three had the booster engine (giving it five including the APU) which seemed to be a bit difficult to light. I remember many times at Glasgow seeing clouds of unburnt fuel vapour billowing from the efflux, followed by a huge gout of flame as it lit! The BUA one-eleven which was invariably following was not amused.

[Vfrpilotpb]

Looks a bit like the Concord(e) with that steer Horn assembly for the yolk, when do we find out?
Peter R-B
Vfr

[DaveO'Leary]

Vfrp

It's the Trident, f/d not Mk3 (my error) but it's a nice photo, I've enlarged it. I recon photo taken over Malaga....



Well done Mr Grubby twas the Swift.

[chevvron]

Air to air is definitely a three - you can see the booster.
Don't know where it was taken though; the air hasn't got the bluish tinge of the eastern Med

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

OK, what's this?

Name the aeroplane:




SSD

[DCDriver]

yup, Vulcan.
And judging by the era, "somewhere near Woodford in the late '50's"

dcd

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

Yup, Vulcan en route from Chadderton factory to Woodford airfield for assembly and flight. Much as Lancasters did a couple of decades earlier.

SSD

[Woomera]

And an Austin truck???

Standard and Triumph - almost long forgotten names. Used to love my TR3A almost 40 years ago.........

[DaveO'Leary]

Harder now.....

Name the engine, exact version req.........

[DCDriver]

It looks like a die-cast model.....so I'll opt for a Herpa CFM56-5B

[DaveO'Leary]

DCDriver

Spot on Sir

[Onan the Clumsy]

...but the tailcone is a little elongated for a 56




does the model include the strakes on the inboard cowlings?