Name that Flying Machine
this saw better days
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Thanks Sycamore re mass balances, think I might have a 1/48 kit in the loft which features similar on elevators or ailerons... it must be a fairly common vintage type but damned if I can remember what!
twiddle your thumbs until tomorrow.....
I was wrong. Did Freddie Laker have someone inside the ARB/Board of trade?
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Edit: yes, forgotten G-BSST!
Whilst we are twiddling thumbs...
That name reminds me of the day I attended an Air Transport Licensing hearing at the CAA in Kingsway, London.
It was the Skytrain licensing application and Freddie Laker was there with some glamorous cabin crew.
During the hearing he asked the Chairman if he could present a petition supporting Skytrain which had been signed by 3 million people. The Chairman agreed and the hosties then proceeded to fill the whole room with stacks of paper about 10 feet high, so much so that you could barely see the panel!
The Chairman then asked Freddie if he wanted this huge mound to be submitted as evidence.
“Of course I do!”, blurted out Freddie, to which the Chairman immediately retorted : “Then, as required by the regulations, you must submit it in triplicate ...as all other evidence”.
The room collapsed in laughter!
That name reminds me of the day I attended an Air Transport Licensing hearing at the CAA in Kingsway, London.
It was the Skytrain licensing application and Freddie Laker was there with some glamorous cabin crew.
During the hearing he asked the Chairman if he could present a petition supporting Skytrain which had been signed by 3 million people. The Chairman agreed and the hosties then proceeded to fill the whole room with stacks of paper about 10 feet high, so much so that you could barely see the panel!
The Chairman then asked Freddie if he wanted this huge mound to be submitted as evidence.
“Of course I do!”, blurted out Freddie, to which the Chairman immediately retorted : “Then, as required by the regulations, you must submit it in triplicate ...as all other evidence”.
The room collapsed in laughter!
Yes the fabulously named Accountant - I thought it would last a bit longer but there are too many clever folk on here... over to Noyade!
The Old Joke.
!st Prototype " The Accountant"
2nd Prototype "The Administator"
3rd Prototype "The Receiver"
And let's not go in to the Avro 748's ancestry!
!st Prototype " The Accountant"
2nd Prototype "The Administator"
3rd Prototype "The Receiver"
And let's not go in to the Avro 748's ancestry!
The 748 is still flying out of Pickle Lake , and Red Lake Ontario . Testimony to the genius of Avro Engineering .
Still lots of Airframes left , surprised nobody has not converted them with newer noisemakers .
Still lots of Airframes left , surprised nobody has not converted them with newer noisemakers .
Of 67 built l would guess that there are no more than 20 still flying and most of these will be with West Atlantic Cargo. I don't think any that went to India are still active but there may be a couple still soldiering on in Indonesia.
Might be an S-M 81....?
Vague recollection of several out of sequence allocations being granted before the general free for all started in the mid 1970s - G-VTOL, G-BSBH, G-BJCB plus the BOAC Concorde allocations were all quite well known, but I think there were one or two earlier examples in the 1950s/60s. Earliest was probably G-EDCA (Director of Civil Aviation, Sir William Sefton Brancker), allocated to two separate DH-60s when the G-EAAA-EBZZ sequence was allocated prior to the modern register commencing from G-AAAA in 1929.
Edit: yes, forgotten G-BSST!
Edit: yes, forgotten G-BSST!
I would be guessing as I am not sure . I have seen only three in the last while . The biggest issue is getting engine work done as the only shop still providing service is in New Zealand . Just looks like the Saab engines might just bolt right on , same high thrust lines 