Comic relief?
 

Seen today at the Linton Graduation, surprisingly it was removed before lining up!

http://www.warplane.co.uk/tucsaaaa.jpg

Ah Warplane...

Why haven't we seen any photos for such a long time? No aircraft to photograph, or have you just refrained from posting them on here?

Cheers

Grob Driver

Nice piccy, but the state of that bodywork worries me - I've seen Arab taxis in better nick than that

Aircraft obviously bought from the lowest bidder or services (at least in sheet metal dept.) by the low bidder. Paintwork looks good though

Having flown a couple pretty much straight out of the factory, I can confirm that they came like that.

Having said that, this must be a good one, I can't recall any where the FRC clip would actually hold the FRCs up.

G

Could it be that all aeroplanes look like that.....it's just the gloss black that shows it up!

Looks can deceive
 

Perchance it was designed that way and when it was under the stress loads of flight the skin would smooth out. If you have ever seen the right side of a Wessex (S-58) it would scare the hell out of you seeing the skins buckle and ripple under a high power hover.

:eek:

You could be right Lu, but.....

You've never worked on a Shorts Aeroplane have you?

G

Do they still do it that way?
 

To: Genghis the Engineer

Hopefully the don’t still do that type of metalwork since they are doing major assemblies for Canadair (Bombardier) and also Airbus fuselage sections under subcontract from Bombardier


:rolleyes:

Hopefully.

I used to routinely jump between two we had at Boscombe Down which were successive serial numbers. The difference in headroom at the same seat height setting was about 2 inches.

There was also a wonderful story just after they got installed at RAF Cranwell. Somebody decided to line them all up for an AOC's inspection. So they were duly lined up, spinners all in a perfect line. Then somebody realised that there was about 10" of stagger between the backs of the rudders. I think the AOC was carefully shepherded to the front of the aircraft only.

And that's the stories that won't get me hunted down under the official secrets act.

G