A new replacement for the A400 has just hit the market
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A new replacement for the A400 has just hit the market
It's bigger and can haul more than a Herc 
Shorts Belfast SC-5 Super Transporter for sale by Flightstar Trading LLC from 1968
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It can't be that slow with only 11200 hours!
Either that or it's not gone far in the 42 years since built...
If the airframe hours are correct, then it's probably fresher than all but two frames in the RAF's entire transport fleet!
Either that or it's not gone far in the 42 years since built...
If the airframe hours are correct, then it's probably fresher than all but two frames in the RAF's entire transport fleet!
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Just 100 hours?
It'd be quicker to ship it back via sea wouldn't it?
It'd be quicker to ship it back via sea wouldn't it?
I think it is the end of the road for the Belslow. There was one at Manston awaiting the magic wand but it did not materialise. Some great loads, railway carriages, etc but never good enough to pay its way.
At the end of the road it was just a big fat Brittannia.
At the end of the road it was just a big fat Brittannia.
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Fareastdriver you can thank that nice Mr Wilson and his cronies for that. Original design was for four jet engines and a high 'V' tail. Ooh look a 42 yr old C-17......................
Flew back from Akrotiri once, in the 60's, in a "Fastback", much more comfy than a Herk.
ISTR that there was a speedo just by the skipper's nose steering wheel.must have been of some use!
ISTR that there was a speedo just by the skipper's nose steering wheel.must have been of some use!
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Joking aside, I think you'll find the interior dimensions of the Belfast are almost identical to the A400 - and the A400 still won't be able to carry any main battle tank (unlike the C17)
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So I take it when you see them throwing stores out of the back of a Belfast in flight, they are simply getting rid of the stuff that has time expired and past it's sell by date since departing ? 
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Remember sitting on the pax deck on a SCT sortie and watching the wing and the two starboard engines all doing their own thing during a practice stall. Nothing, but nothing, was moving in synchronisation with anything else!
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I seem to recall that, shortly after entry to service, the Belslo carried out a non-stop AAR flight to either Singapore or OZ. On arrival the captain sent signal to MOD (or was it the War Office in those days.) "Arrived safely, no signs of scurvy on board". Bad for his career seemingly.