Cl-44-o and swingtail merged
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From: Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning
A bit of a long shot, but would any of the props from the Cosford Belfast XR371 be able to be overhauled to airworthy standard or are they time expired / beyond economic repair?
Porrohman
Porrohman
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From: Stockport MAN/EGCC
I have a feeling most of the airworthy or potentially so parts were swapped around at the time of the Ascencion airlift.
I'm sure more learned contibutors will correct me P.D.Q. if i'm in error on this.
Be lucky
David
I'm sure more learned contibutors will correct me P.D.Q. if i'm in error on this.
Be lucky
David
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From: zim
loadie one kono bee
Swing tails of the Scupperd Gupper
My bags are packed, I'm on my way if it wasan't for the bloody CAA!! so back to my galley, that I call home, making my favorite tea for the Captain and me.
Then into the cockpit to sit on my own throne, but how the crew love to hear me moan and grown as I wipe my arse on my un used load sheets.
Then hopping into the upper bunk to suck on my home made sweets before supper, as I write more tails aboard the Scuppered Gupper.
So come a board the Scupped Gupper, while I make you a lovely cupper and tell you tails of long gone by missions, and of my many wrong decisions , but never mind, I say, because I can handle it, as they try to stab me in my back, right through my brand new anarak !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now there's a tail of the missing props, who did I sell them to, please please own up otherwise we are grounded and will be selling the rest of her in the shops!!!!!
More tails to follow of loadie one kono beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
My bags are packed, I'm on my way if it wasan't for the bloody CAA!! so back to my galley, that I call home, making my favorite tea for the Captain and me.
Then into the cockpit to sit on my own throne, but how the crew love to hear me moan and grown as I wipe my arse on my un used load sheets.
Then hopping into the upper bunk to suck on my home made sweets before supper, as I write more tails aboard the Scuppered Gupper.
So come a board the Scupped Gupper, while I make you a lovely cupper and tell you tails of long gone by missions, and of my many wrong decisions , but never mind, I say, because I can handle it, as they try to stab me in my back, right through my brand new anarak !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now there's a tail of the missing props, who did I sell them to, please please own up otherwise we are grounded and will be selling the rest of her in the shops!!!!!
More tails to follow of loadie one kono beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
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From: It wasn't me, I wasn't there, wrong country ;-)
CL44-0
May it rest in bits, I came to hate that thing after being forced to D/H back to the UK, by far the worst trip ever. Dirty, unpressurised, crew getting dirty money to fly it etc, etc. Sure Conroy did a great job on it, but that was then, send it back to the US and to ALG in Overland Park KS.
Dirty money
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From: Hampshire UK
Missing -Presumed Unemployed
I have been reading the various opinions on the situation regarding the Conroy Guppy which continues to be interned at Bournemouth.
I understand that the REAL situation is far removed from the speculation and that the new operators of the aircraft are now gearing up for departure.
What IS known is that the CL44 Association, whose webpages are freely available, actually name the operating crew. Surely they would not go that far if it were fiction?
As far as a loadmaster is concerned, I read that Heavylift Cargo Airlines employ no-one as loadmaster, preferring to utilise the operating crew to load etc.
If that's good enough for the Belfast, it is surely the same for the Guppy.
Hope to see some old 44-ites in Piccadilly later this year.
I understand that the REAL situation is far removed from the speculation and that the new operators of the aircraft are now gearing up for departure.
What IS known is that the CL44 Association, whose webpages are freely available, actually name the operating crew. Surely they would not go that far if it were fiction?
As far as a loadmaster is concerned, I read that Heavylift Cargo Airlines employ no-one as loadmaster, preferring to utilise the operating crew to load etc.
If that's good enough for the Belfast, it is surely the same for the Guppy.
Hope to see some old 44-ites in Piccadilly later this year.
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From: Hampshire UK
The Guppy
Something of a pregnant silence around the CL44-O these days, reflected in the lack of activity in these columns.
However[, this does not mean that the aircraft has been abandoned, indeed, much IS going on in the background and this WILL result in the aircraft's departure in the near future.
All members of the CL44 Association have been mailed with the up-to-date news and Tom-Toms report engineering activity around the Guppy this very day.
However[, this does not mean that the aircraft has been abandoned, indeed, much IS going on in the background and this WILL result in the aircraft's departure in the near future.
All members of the CL44 Association have been mailed with the up-to-date news and Tom-Toms report engineering activity around the Guppy this very day.
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From: UK
HeavyLift Cargo Short Belfast RP-C8020
HeavyLift Cargo Short Belfast RP-C8020, which had been inactive for a period, was noted operating circuits at Cairns on April 9 before departing on April 11 for Darwin as HVY811. The following day the Belfast operated to Dili and return as HVY811/812 before continuing to Brisbane as HVY812 and to Cairns as HVY813 on April 13.
Heavylift Cargo planned to take delivery of 727-227F RP-C8019 at its Cairns base on May 2.
http://www.ausaviation.com.au/Online...ic/traffic.htm
Heavylift Cargo planned to take delivery of 727-227F RP-C8019 at its Cairns base on May 2.
http://www.ausaviation.com.au/Online...ic/traffic.htm
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From: Hampshire UK
Silent Belfast/Quiet Tyne
As the weather warms up,the Belfast Crew ( a rare breed but seen in Essex in Spring months) will return to the nest. Hibernation is over, so 'twitchers' should get ready.
As for the equally- rare Guppy breed, the nest is at least finished and the parents will be spotted fussing around the brood. Trouble is that once the chick finds its wings, it leaves the nest for warmer climes without warning.
As for the equally- rare Guppy breed, the nest is at least finished and the parents will be spotted fussing around the brood. Trouble is that once the chick finds its wings, it leaves the nest for warmer climes without warning.
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From: EU
CL44 will dep. BOH end of May ?
A new rumor is on the cl44 site, the Guppy will dep. end of May, heading West (USA) for respray - Full Heavylift cs -
Recalling the maint. items trying to get it out of Smyrna,TN in 2002, I hardly would consider it logical to fly via the US. But we'll see.
Hope she will do some testing first, good luck to the mission, may the phoenix spread her wings....
Recalling the maint. items trying to get it out of Smyrna,TN in 2002, I hardly would consider it logical to fly via the US. But we'll see.
Hope she will do some testing first, good luck to the mission, may the phoenix spread her wings....
Last edited by swingtail; 14th May 2007 at 14:45. Reason: T