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- 28 Aug 2006, 19:17
- Forum: The Virtual Spanner
- Topic: Thinking of buying a faster CPU.
- Replies: 25
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- 28 Aug 2006, 14:28
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Are there any Comets still flying?
- Replies: 5
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- 25 Aug 2006, 19:48
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Are there any Comets still flying?
- Replies: 5
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Are there any Comets still flying?
Twice in the last 3 weeks I have seen what looked like a Comet 3 or 4 in flight.The first time it was northbound through Wallasey at about 8,000 feet, and the second time southbound. The only excrescences were the tank like protuberances half way along the leading edges, and thus it did not look as ...
- 23 Aug 2006, 15:02
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Whats your top three favourite Aircraft of all time?
- Replies: 97
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- 18 Aug 2006, 17:42
- Forum: CNB Forum
- Topic: Some very interesting real world shots...
- Replies: 18
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- 18 Aug 2006, 12:27
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: VC10 picture link
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1179
- 17 Aug 2006, 18:36
- Forum: CBFS Forum
- Topic: HS.748 Flameouts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4380
- 16 Aug 2006, 11:48
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Banned at Santa Monica
- Replies: 22
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- 14 Aug 2006, 15:11
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Anyone live in or near Rugby?
- Replies: 5
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Toby . I haven't lived there for 40 years ( I was at school there) but I still visit it from time to time. It is still a pleasant market type town, with an industrial side dominated by what was GEC ( just by the station, where the very first run of the Whittle jet took place before the move to Lutte...
- 13 Aug 2006, 18:21
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Amazing vortex photo
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4125
It fell onto Queen's . It was a wake encounter as others have said.I have not read the report recently, but IIRC the problem arose from rapid reversals of full rudder at about 250 kts IAS at about 3,000 feet in the climb which exceeded the design load by a considerable margin. Jets are not really me...