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DT_Xtremez_41: :0Soon To Leave
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Most definitely!
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The Good Old Days? HELL YES
The Good Old Days? HELL YES
Top find. I remember watching all this and getting a fearsome b@ll@king for sitting on my ar$e and watching as well as getting the p1$$ ripped out of me for.....well sitting and watching really. My first posting, left not long after this and still the benchmark by which all postings are measured. RIGHT, now we have an organisation willing to do what it takes to get the Vulcan flying again, we some one with a shed load of cash and enough cahoonas to argue with the CAA to get the Aluminium Death tube in the skies over the UK. I mean, the South Africans have some flying and SURELY you cant let THEM get one over on the pride of England...............D'OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(MAY be construed as slightlyOff Topic )
The Good Old Days? HELL YES
Top find. I remember watching all this and getting a fearsome b@ll@king for sitting on my ar$e and watching as well as getting the p1$$ ripped out of me for.....well sitting and watching really. My first posting, left not long after this and still the benchmark by which all postings are measured. RIGHT, now we have an organisation willing to do what it takes to get the Vulcan flying again, we some one with a shed load of cash and enough cahoonas to argue with the CAA to get the Aluminium Death tube in the skies over the UK. I mean, the South Africans have some flying and SURELY you cant let THEM get one over on the pride of England...............D'OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(MAY be construed as slightlyOff Topic )
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As I said before on here , there is one in the States which is being restored to fly! A few misguided Goaters work on it too( hello Tankerworker!!) Most of the Spams think its a Mig!!!
They won't do when it turns up in formation with a P-38 and F-35A at some USAF Airshow, The logo for the 'Lightning 2' roll out shows what it would look like.
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Don't forget the F53 at Gatwick Aviation Museum - the engines have 0 hours and are straight out of the box! I've done some work on the old girl myself - its a great machine!
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Ahhh! ...the old 'diamond nine'....I left Binbrook 10 years earlier!
I remember leaving the PAR after servicing it as a 2-ship were taking off on reheat.
Ear drums nearly split - made me feel bl00dy ill!
I remember talking to some guys from the Lightning Appreciation Society about 10 years ago who said that they had an airframe fully serviceable and ready to fly WITH a pilot. The only problem was getting the licence. Heard any more?
I remember leaving the PAR after servicing it as a 2-ship were taking off on reheat.
Ear drums nearly split - made me feel bl00dy ill!
I remember talking to some guys from the Lightning Appreciation Society about 10 years ago who said that they had an airframe fully serviceable and ready to fly WITH a pilot. The only problem was getting the licence. Heard any more?
My understanding of the subject is this (civil aerospace engineers correct me if I'm wrong). CAA will not give the type a permit to fly without the OK of the design authority. As a complex type the aircraft requires a design authority, which in this case would be BAe. BAe not interested, and not prepared to pass it on to another organisation (like they did to Marshalls as in the case of XH558). Even then CAA may not give the type a clearance due to the Lightning's poor safety record (1 out of 3 crashed in service). Rules in the US and SA allow the Lightning to be flown as an expermental aircraft (ones in SA are operated by what is a test pilots school).