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Old January 21st 05, 11:04 AM
Mike M
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Shane,

I love the stories about them - like how the first RAF pilots to fly
them, used to Meteors, would find themselves going supersonic on
take-off! I count myself lucky to have seen their airshow party-piece
of going vertical.


I used to love going to Farnborough on the trade days in the mid 50s
through into the 60s. Some fantastic stuff used to be on display and in
those days their seemed to be new experimental aircraft built each year as
the envelope of what an aircraft could do was explored and expanded. I
remember the flying bedstead that eventually evolved into the 1127(?) and
then 1154 and finally the Harrier.

Yes, Noel and myself not only lived just a few miles apart as he was I
think in Bray and then later in Maidenhead itself not far from where I was
living but we also both went to school in Oxford. A few miles as well as
years apart though.
--
Mike


Shane wrote:

The FD2 had a droop snoop as later used on Concorde. I think one may
still survive at Cosford (RAF Museum).


Mean to go up there one day. I expect you know I live within walking
distance of Hendon. Went there last week, in fact, for the umpteenth
time, but museums are, you know, dead.......

but we lived not far from White Waltham which was a test field used
by Fairey's.


If that was while Noel was at Slough, I can understand why you moved!
rofl.....sorry Noel, you know I can't resist!

Oh - in case you're wondering, my father was an aircraft designer and
worked on the Gannet, Rotadyne, Airco 121 (better known as DH121 or
Trident). Airco was a short lived partnership of De Havilland,
Fairey and Hunting - he was responsible for the tail assembly with
the high tail plane, and then Scout & Wasp helicopters after the
merger of Shorts/Fairey etc. into Westland.


Wonderful. You must have had a fascinating childhood! I didn't
realise the Trident started as a DeHavilland. Did he have anything to
do with the one-eleven (first plane I ever went up in)? I always
thought they had a familial resemblance.

I used to live near Lasham airport and wish I'd paid more attention
to their Comets. It beats me why we can't keep at least one example
of these machines in fully-working order!


A flight in a Lightning must be a bit like sitting on the back of a
rocket on bonfire night. :-)
--


I love the stories about them - like how the first RAF pilots to fly
them, used to Meteors, would find themselves going supersonic on
take-off! I count myself lucky to have seen their airshow party-piece
of going vertical.


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Old January 21st 05, 02:02 PM
Joan Archer
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I can't remember that far back what they actually manufactured but I
know there were a lot of different sized turbo's done. I mainly worked
in the fusegear shop but did do a stint in the rewinding but only on
small ones.
One of Franks brothers worked in switchgear and another in with the
big jobs. It was quite a bit place so I never got around the whole place
while I was there, it was fun though g
When you think about fuses now you think of those little things in plugs
but the size of some of the ones I had to make, well, you wouldn't
credit g I used to like it though when working on the soldering line
doing the silver ones.
Joan

Shane wrote:
Presuming the same Brush, they were a major manufacturer of our
diesel-electric locomotives. Didn't know about an HS connection but I
wouldn't be surprised. Their main competitor was English Electric who not
only made the loco that replaced steam on the East Coast Main Line
expresses - the Deltic - but also our first in-level-flight supersonic jet,
the Lightning (which still holds speed records for vertical flight nearly 50
years after it entered service) and the equally old Canberra jet bomber that
is still in service as a reconnaissance aircraft and pretty-much unsurpassed
in it's role. God what an anorak I've become!


Shane

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Old January 21st 05, 02:04 PM
Joan Archer
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ROFL
He must have gone to bed and missed that one Shane g
Joan

Shane wrote:


If that was while Noel was at Slough, I can understand why you moved!
rofl.....sorry Noel, you know I can't resist!

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Old January 21st 05, 02:07 PM
Joan Archer
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lol I'm in too much pain at the moment to do anything else but
*gracefully* it's a good job I don't have to stand to use this thing or
I'd never be here g
Joan

Heather wrote:
Growing old......not quite sure about *gracefully*, lol. But it sure beats
the alternative!!!!

Actually, my younger sister (2 years younger) has more wrinkles than I do,
but she is also a few stone lighter. Pays to have chubby cheeks!!

Cheers.....Heather

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Old January 23rd 05, 06:20 AM
Shane
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My Mum and Dad both used to work for Dowty's, then Smiths. She was certainly
on soldering while he was a turner (made me some great bits for my first
motorbikes!). Dowty's was, afaik, before I was born - my Dad has mentioned
seeing them test flying what sounds like Gloster Javellins next door. When I
took him to Hendon he got a bollocking for walking onto the bit we plebs are
supposed to stay off of, to take a look at the Lightning undercarriage and
confirm that it was Dowty. The era I remember though is when they were at
Smiths in Basingstoke - we lived in a road that was originally built by
Smiths for the workforce (weren't bad houses either). It was a pretty big
factory and they were providing instruments for Concorde and the Harrier.
Now the factory site is a retail park. Of course, the clocks on most of the
British bikes I've worked on were Smiths, but by the mid-seventies Triumph
(well, NVT) were buying Italian.

South-West Trains - who run the Southern Region services out of Waterloo -
are buying a billion pounds worth of new rolling stock, from Siemens of
Germany/Austria.

I think about the only healthy manufacturing industry we have left is
armaments. No wonder Blair's so keen on war!


Shane


"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
I can't remember that far back what they actually manufactured but I
know there were a lot of different sized turbo's done. I mainly worked
in the fusegear shop but did do a stint in the rewinding but only on
small ones.
One of Franks brothers worked in switchgear and another in with the
big jobs. It was quite a bit place so I never got around the whole place
while I was there, it was fun though g
When you think about fuses now you think of those little things in plugs
but the size of some of the ones I had to make, well, you wouldn't
credit g I used to like it though when working on the soldering line
doing the silver ones.
Joan

Shane wrote:
Presuming the same Brush, they were a major manufacturer of our
diesel-electric locomotives. Didn't know about an HS connection but I
wouldn't be surprised. Their main competitor was English Electric who

not
only made the loco that replaced steam on the East Coast Main Line
expresses - the Deltic - but also our first in-level-flight supersonic

jet,
the Lightning (which still holds speed records for vertical flight

nearly 50
years after it entered service) and the equally old Canberra jet bomber

that
is still in service as a reconnaissance aircraft and pretty-much

unsurpassed
in it's role. God what an anorak I've become!


Shane



 




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