Trident 3B G-AWZK Move Update
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Trident 3B G-AWZK Move Update
Hi all im back,quick update on Zulu Kilo,she will be moved from LHR on Saturday 16th July @23.00 this is a provisional date and may be a week later on the 23rd when i have more info i will post here.
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Trident 3B G-AWZK Move Update
Hi all just to let you know The BEA Trident 3B G-AWZK will be moving out of LHR on the 16th July @23.00 if all goes to plan, if this date changes i will post the info here.
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We dismantled the aircraft last oct /november she will be on the back of a lorry like this
Please bear in mind we will be reassembling the aircraft to her former glory,here is a pic of the fin being removed.
Wing cut.
For more pics etc please visit our forum
http://aviationphotoarchive.com/Zulu...3d949dfc5d94ed
ps all pics are copyright of myself Neil Lomax
before dismantling.
And finally ZK\'s immaculate flightdeck.
Also once the aircraft is rebuilt she will be open for the genral public for the very first time since her retirement on 1st November 1985.
Please bear in mind we will be reassembling the aircraft to her former glory,here is a pic of the fin being removed.
Wing cut.
For more pics etc please visit our forum
http://aviationphotoarchive.com/Zulu...3d949dfc5d94ed
ps all pics are copyright of myself Neil Lomax
before dismantling.
And finally ZK\'s immaculate flightdeck.
Also once the aircraft is rebuilt she will be open for the genral public for the very first time since her retirement on 1st November 1985.
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Love that BEA scheme (and the one the 1-11 at Duxford is painted in...)
Good luck with the move, you know, twenty years ago I never thought I'd miss the Trident...
Good luck with the move, you know, twenty years ago I never thought I'd miss the Trident...
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As a bit of Trident fan I think it is great that one is being preserved. The T3 made great noise on take off when the boost engine was used. I was thinking about that looking at the flite deck pic and wondered where the controls for the Boost engine are- there appear to my untrained eye only three thrust levers.
Did the boost engine have a 'throttle' I assumed it did or was it a case of on or off??
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Did the boost engine have a 'throttle' I assumed it did or was it a case of on or off??
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Was it really the 22nd Feb 1985 that I last flew Zulu Kilo, back from EDI (and I gave the landing away)?
Back to the question, the Boost engine just had a small switch to control it. T/O and climb if I remember correctly, with a gauge showing the thrust.
Where was it? Well, starting from the top of the throttles (in the photo mentioned earlier) move to the right and the first gauge you come to is the Droop. Next to it, and slightly below is the boost thrust gauge with the control below the gauge.
Back to the question, the Boost engine just had a small switch to control it. T/O and climb if I remember correctly, with a gauge showing the thrust.
Where was it? Well, starting from the top of the throttles (in the photo mentioned earlier) move to the right and the first gauge you come to is the Droop. Next to it, and slightly below is the boost thrust gauge with the control below the gauge.
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Quick update,the move will slip a week or two due to TFL (transport for london) not allowing us to close the Bath Road for 2 hours. The police have suggested that we exit via Hatton Cross and use the southern perry,i will update as soon as i have the info.The wing's and fin will be moved within in the next two weeks.
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I taxied by G-AWZJ in 1994 heading out of GLA on a Monarch 757.
Back then she looked in a right state. I think its better she has been scrapped, rather than sit around for eons slowly falling to bits in post crash like condition.
She was well beyond any viable restoration IMO.
Back then she looked in a right state. I think its better she has been scrapped, rather than sit around for eons slowly falling to bits in post crash like condition.
She was well beyond any viable restoration IMO.
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I taxied by G-AWZJ in 1994 heading out of GLA on a Monarch 757.
G-AWZJ PIK May 1987
G-ARPP GLA Nov 2002
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G-AWZJ was not in too bad condition ,so the fwd fuse was saved G-ARPP was scrapped by a freind of mine ,the cockpit section has been saved and is in the process of restoration in Glasgow.G-AWZO was scrapped at HTF and i have the evidence on film/video G-AWZU was also scrapped around three years ago by a freind again and the forward 20 ft is stored,G-AVFM was scrapped and again a freind of mine has saved the cockpit section and again this has been saved and resides in his garden in Hampshire.G-AWZX was also scrapped by the same guy but the aircraft was knackered and scrapped along with the Comet,the only fire dump Trident's left are G-ARPK at MAN G-SMOKE ex G-AVFG (fuse only) G-AWZS complete half a T2 and a Trident 1.Hope this clarifys the surviviors.
Oh and while i remember another freind of mine has G-AWZI's cockpit at the F.A.ST. Museium at Farnbourgh,there is also a complete Trident 2E located at Belfast Airport.
Oh and while i remember another freind of mine has G-AWZI's cockpit at the F.A.ST. Museium at Farnbourgh,there is also a complete Trident 2E located at Belfast Airport.