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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th May 2017, 16:02
Replies: 60
Views: 12,465
Posted By tristar 500

Rear facing seats on BEA aircraft

The main reason for the seats that faced the rear on the BEA (British European Airways) aircraft was that you had a table between the opposing seats. this was for baby carry cots.

There were no...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Oct 2016, 14:22
Replies: 4
Views: 3,459
Posted By tristar 500

Thanks very much for the replies. I did realise...

Thanks very much for the replies.
I did realise I had made an error when I forgot to identify it as a Vanguard cockpit.
It looks in a very sorry state at the moment, but hopefully we will be able...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Oct 2016, 16:08
Replies: 4
Views: 3,459
Posted By tristar 500

TCA wooden cockpit trainer

As part of the hangar project at Brooklands Museum (www.brooklandsmuseum.com (http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com)) we are starting to renovate a wooden cockpit trainer that was produced for TCA when...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
14th Jul 2014, 13:59
Replies: 13
Views: 4,175
Posted By tristar 500

Farnborough 2014

Can anybody tell me what frequency they are using for the display this year?


Thanks in advance tristar 500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Feb 2014, 18:33
Replies: 123
Views: 41,816
Posted By tristar 500

757 reg

Shaggy Sheep Driver, it was not BA who decided not to take the registration of G-BIKE.


We were told that Raleigh Industries had pre reserved it, for obvious reasons, so we had to miss it out.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Feb 2014, 18:12
Replies: 7
Views: 2,177
Posted By tristar 500

Servo tabs

Jhieminga, are you looking for info on servo tabs or just the Britannia?


If it`s servo tabs the Vickers Vanguard used the same method for flight controls & we have all the manuals for that at...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
26th Feb 2013, 14:30
Replies: 16
Views: 3,241
Posted By tristar 500

G-BOAB moving under it`s own power would be a...

G-BOAB moving under it`s own power would be a miracle as it has not had any engines in for most if not all of the last 10 years!!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Jan 2013, 16:57
Replies: 43
Views: 10,927
Posted By tristar 500

quinkytube, I will get the steps & open the...

quinkytube, I will get the steps & open the cowlings ready for you to do the boro & if they are good avionic type & I wil run them for you!!!

tristar500

Sorry for thread drift. 500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jul 2012, 16:53
Replies: 5
Views: 2,213
Posted By tristar 500

DaveReidUK, David, your link fails to show...

DaveReidUK,

David, your link fails to show anything, but, the caption refers to the derelict aircraft at Nicosia in Cyprus.

I think you will find that that aircraft is a Trident 1E which was...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Jul 2012, 19:36
Replies: 5
Views: 2,213
Posted By tristar 500

Save The Trident » Preservation of Trident 1C...

Save The Trident » Preservation of Trident 1C G-ARPO (http://www.savethetrident.org/)

Contact these people in Sunderland, they are robbing bits of G-APFV in Belfast.

tristar 500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Jul 2012, 19:32
Replies: 68
Views: 46,803
Posted By tristar 500

Post 1 said, 199?: Also at Farnborough In the...

Post 1 said, 199?: Also at Farnborough In the mid-1990’s, an Su-27 ran off the end of the runway following an instruction to land by the Flying Control Committee because the practice display was...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Apr 2012, 14:19
Replies: 9
Views: 2,198
Posted By tristar 500

As far as I remember BA pulled the plug on...

As far as I remember BA pulled the plug on support for Cosford, including the working parties that went there to carry out maintainance tasks.

Two of the aircraft G-ARGU the Viking & G-ARVM ended...
Forum: Tech Log
28th Feb 2012, 13:20
Replies: 26
Views: 7,245
Posted By tristar 500

The doors on a Trident were different from the...

The doors on a Trident were different from the rest of the type. so it could be this door which is being shown.

The center door was a detactable type, in an emergency it was opened & dropped out....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Feb 2012, 13:50
Replies: 53
Views: 19,049
Posted By tristar 500

ColinB said, Does anyone know what became of the...

ColinB said, Does anyone know what became of the one at Halton?

I will ask what happened to the one at Odiham, did it get scrapped?

tristar500
edit same comment written twice.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Feb 2012, 15:46
Replies: 62
Views: 36,767
Posted By tristar 500

Gary West

Question is why?

Send me a PM & I will talk to you.

tristar500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Sep 2011, 16:37
Replies: 399
Views: 193,181
Posted By tristar 500

VC 10 Wing tips

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp259/tristar500_2008/th_A40-AB1.jpg (http://s417.photobucket.com/albums/pp259/tristar500_2008/?action=view&current=A40-AB1.jpg)
...
Forum: Tech Log
5th Sep 2011, 16:48
Replies: 65
Views: 19,496
Posted By tristar 500

Hawker 750 says It was not a great aircraft in...

Hawker 750 says It was not a great aircraft in it's day it was a dog.

As a ground engineer with a global airline, I worked the Tristar through out it,s, life before they were sold to various...
Forum: Tech Log
30th Aug 2011, 15:02
Replies: 26
Views: 6,873
Posted By tristar 500

L1011 crew

In British Airways the normal operating crew within Europe was three pilots.

I wasn`t until we started operating further a field that the third pilot was surplanted by a flight engineer.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Aug 2011, 19:47
Replies: 62
Views: 36,767
Posted By tristar 500

G-APEP

Props, you have private mail

tristar 500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Aug 2011, 15:03
Replies: 62
Views: 36,767
Posted By tristar 500

scotbil said The massive props on the Vanguard...

scotbil said
The massive props on the Vanguard had an important role in stopping. In a strong headwind Ground Idle alone was like running into the proverbial brick wall.
Normal landing technique...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Jul 2011, 18:38
Replies: 45
Views: 10,648
Posted By tristar 500

Ejector seat rides

One of our chaps on the Vanguard at Brooklands has just produced a personal film of the Farnborough Airshow from 1957 to 1966 which he took with a cini camera.

The event you talk about is on...
Forum: Tech Log
17th May 2011, 19:15
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,680,260
Posted By tristar 500

ZimmerFly said I cannot imagine any requirement...

ZimmerFly said
I cannot imagine any requirement for more than one engine (with or without reheat) to be run at full power when parked in the detuners. Thus there would be very little chance of...
Forum: Tech Log
13th May 2011, 15:13
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,680,260
Posted By tristar 500

Quax .95 Looking at the pic of G-BOAB in the...

Quax .95
Looking at the pic of G-BOAB in the detuner brings me to the question how they performed the run-up. No brakes, just chocks?

What makes you think they would not have any brakes?? When...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Apr 2011, 18:07
Replies: 17
Views: 2,433
Posted By tristar 500

Tagron said "it must have taken ten years to get...

Tagron said "it must have taken ten years to get the two companies properly together"

Ten years??!! It`s still us & them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEA & proud.

tristar 500
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
20th Mar 2011, 11:56
Replies: 2
Views: 2,031
Posted By tristar 500

BA Engineering day

I havn`t heard of one this year, but the last one tickets were so scarce that retired staff could not get them let alone people not connected with thwe airline.

So I think the answer will be no....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2011, 15:50
Replies: 63
Views: 34,846
Posted By tristar 500

Winkle Brown

Contact FAST Museum www.airsciences.org.uk/ (http://www.airsciences.org.uk/) at Farnborough for info regarding Winkle Brown.

He has recently been interviewed there & we have been waiting for the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Feb 2011, 16:36
Replies: 39
Views: 17,463
Posted By tristar 500

The record breaking Swift has just turned up at...

The record breaking Swift has just turned up at Brooklands.

Very little of it, only fuselage, no wings etc.

tristar 500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Feb 2011, 13:35
Replies: 359
Views: 160,285
Posted By tristar 500

I worked on the civil version at the Best Ever...

I worked on the civil version at the Best Ever Airline 100 & 200 series.

One of the overriding memory was it was the only aircraft that I have worked on where you had to lie on the floor, to...
Forum: Tech Log
6th Feb 2011, 15:27
Replies: 19
Views: 12,730
Posted By tristar 500

When a colleague of mine was told after he had...

When a colleague of mine was told after he had stuffed a Comet through the Hangar doors at Heathrow "why didn`t you have the Red pump on??!!!

It was a standing joke at the Best Ever Airline which...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Feb 2011, 15:00
Replies: 12
Views: 5,182
Posted By tristar 500

Phil Lo Bao's "Illustrated History of British...

Phil Lo Bao's "Illustrated History of British European Airways" was MUCH better.

Got that one, but couldn`t find it on that well known South American web site!!!!

tristar 500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Feb 2011, 16:27
Replies: 298
Views: 110,042
Posted By tristar 500

Got married in March 1966, (best time for tax,...

Got married in March 1966, (best time for tax, remember that!!) & lived for a time in Vickerage Farm Road, just by the A4 Bath Road.

Having worked a night shift at Heathrow, I got home & took new...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Feb 2011, 16:15
Replies: 12
Views: 5,182
Posted By tristar 500

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KF45F1MPL....

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KF45F1MPL._SL500_AA300_.jpg (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/1844151867/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books)


You forgot the best one!!!!!...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Feb 2011, 18:48
Replies: 12
Views: 5,182
Posted By tristar 500

Historyresearch. I worked for the Best Ever...

Historyresearch.

I worked for the Best Ever Airline from 1963 until 2003 as a ground engineer, what do you want to know?

PM me if you wish.

tristar 500
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Jan 2011, 18:54
Replies: 10
Views: 6,617
Posted By tristar 500

You all want to think yourselves luck!! In...

You all want to think yourselves luck!!

In the UK we probably wouldn`t have been able to deport him due to "infringing his human rights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tristar 500
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Jan 2011, 15:59
Replies: 73
Views: 35,939
Posted By tristar 500

Vanguard Airstairs

ATNotts asked a long time ago Did BEA have the airstairs removed at some stage?

All the BEA Vanguards had front & rear airstairs fitted right from the start.

They stayed fitted until the...
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