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Forum: Fragrant Harbour
22nd Aug 2015, 14:16
Replies: 23
Views: 15,342
Posted By cithos

F Street Station? Still going? It opened maybe...

F Street Station? Still going? It opened maybe thirty five years ago just in time for the first CX freighter services. The girls at that time were about twenty five years old ... presumably they are...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Dec 2014, 18:49
Replies: 243
Views: 267,256
Posted By cithos

Thank you ... yes, it must be the outer section...

Thank you ... yes, it must be the outer section of the door that has fouled the tilted gear. Which can happen during emergency extension if the door release does not function.
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Dec 2014, 09:51
Replies: 243
Views: 267,256
Posted By cithos

If you look carefully at the photograph of the...

If you look carefully at the photograph of the under-belly of the aircraft you see that three gears are extended normally but the right hand wing gear is blocked in the wheel well by what appears to...
Forum: Fragrant Harbour
27th Nov 2012, 16:42
Replies: 23
Views: 10,480
Posted By cithos

Sector Hogs

Chic was a pussycat compared to the Angry Ant. And how about "Wonder Boy Gibson" of BOAC who gave away one sector during his long career and resigned after a very near miss with the ground at...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Jan 2010, 20:17
Replies: 17
Views: 4,251
Posted By cithos

The VC10 and the Hoover Hose ...

1970 or '71. It was true. Well, I think it was 'cos I was with BOAC at the time (on 707-436s) and the story came to us from the VC10 fleet. F/E had bought a vacuum cleaner. Attached hose to sextant...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Dec 2009, 04:45
Replies: 130
Views: 72,183
Posted By cithos

Khormaksar over-run

I seem to recall a conversation with one of the crew members many years ago in which he explained that everyone had evacuated O.K. and only later was it realised that the engines were all still...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Nov 2009, 09:59
Replies: 18
Views: 6,372
Posted By cithos

buried treasure

When Dunkeswell packed in operational flying the Americans buried a stack of P&W radials, still in their crates, on the land to the north west of the airfield boundary. Well, that was the rumour...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Nov 2009, 12:23
Replies: 57
Views: 19,328
Posted By cithos

croydon - airways beacon

Pobjoy (lovely little engine) mentions the Croydon beacon ...

There was an airways beacon light located on the west side (but maybe the east) of Grant's Lane, about half a mile north of...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Nov 2009, 10:53
Replies: 1,274
Views: 652,074
Posted By cithos

644 and 621 G/S at Spitalgate and Weston -s-Mud

I don't know whether it might help those interested in the history of the ATC gliding movement but I see from my log book that I flew T21 WB959 four times at Grantham on the 4th April, 1958. The...
Forum: Fragrant Harbour
5th Mar 2009, 09:31
Replies: 5
Views: 1,319
Posted By cithos

Home status for students ...

Good evening D.B.er

Cathay used to give a letter to you stating that you were employed in London by John Swire and Sons and temporarily posted, by nature of your responsibilities, in Hong Kong.
...
Forum: Fragrant Harbour
11th Mar 2008, 22:21
Replies: 322
Views: 111,057
Posted By cithos

fly-by

surely ...? If you perform a fly-by at 500 feet you are showing off the aircraft but if you perform it at 30 feet, you are simply showing off?
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