Belfast/slow heading for the air??
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From: Australia
They've got a couple of 727 freighters running out of Qld, along with the live belfast.
The current one seems pretty busy, though a little notorious for delays due to engine troubles. I've seen it go through Perth a couple of times in the last year and I've stood next to it once in Port Hedland (presumably dropping off mining supplies, it's a mining town). Last time I saw it in Perth, it stayed on the ground for 3 days due to engine problems.
My first encounter with the belSlow was stepping off a 146 one morning at a normally empty airport, looking up and discovering that you can put turboprops on something bigger than a fokker 50 and that there was a plane even cuter than a quadrapuff (I think I have a thing for fisher price looking planes). The guy sharing my taxi that day couldn't shut me up about it the whole ride!
Standing next to the Heavylift was probably the moment that turned me onto planes forever and sent me scrambling looking for aviation jobs, so I'd have to say a second airborne one would be absolutely WONDERFUL!
Failing that, I'd like a nice little diecast model one for my desk at least..sigh..what I'd give to go for a fly in that thingy! What are the rules about shipping yourself as oversize cargo again....
Toast.
The current one seems pretty busy, though a little notorious for delays due to engine troubles. I've seen it go through Perth a couple of times in the last year and I've stood next to it once in Port Hedland (presumably dropping off mining supplies, it's a mining town). Last time I saw it in Perth, it stayed on the ground for 3 days due to engine problems.
My first encounter with the belSlow was stepping off a 146 one morning at a normally empty airport, looking up and discovering that you can put turboprops on something bigger than a fokker 50 and that there was a plane even cuter than a quadrapuff (I think I have a thing for fisher price looking planes). The guy sharing my taxi that day couldn't shut me up about it the whole ride!
Standing next to the Heavylift was probably the moment that turned me onto planes forever and sent me scrambling looking for aviation jobs, so I'd have to say a second airborne one would be absolutely WONDERFUL!
Failing that, I'd like a nice little diecast model one for my desk at least..sigh..what I'd give to go for a fly in that thingy! What are the rules about shipping yourself as oversize cargo again....
Toast.
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From: Stockport MAN/EGCC
Found this recent shot of 'PS at SND
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5838155
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5838155
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David
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From: Montsegur
On an admin issue how does the aircraft stand in respect of its registration. Who is the AOC for it and will it have to leave the UK on another register?
It would make sense for her to go 9L- Sierra Leone like her sister.
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From: essex
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From: Stockport MAN/EGCC
Be lucky
David
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From: Gt Hockham
AVG-D, I was involved with the original Sierra Leone registration and the short answer to this is that I doubt if any other country would licence her. If they did then they would be a similar-type AOC "licencer". ie: most things go! It has been asked how they can get her out of Southend; this was a similar problem we had with FT before I flew her up to PIK for work before she went to Oz. Basically there was a back way that overcome CAA objections.
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From: UK
Belfast 9L-LDQ
'Belfast 9L-LDQ departed Cairns for Brisbane on November 23 and after over-nighting continued as flight HVY461 to Fua'amotu, Tonga. It then returned to Brisbane as flight HVY462 on November 25.'
http://www.ausaviation.com.au/Online...ic/traffic.htm
http://www.ausaviation.com.au/Online...ic/traffic.htm
