Dan Dare!! I've taken my 707 and 727's into Lasham at DA for maintenance back in the early 1980's. Tony
I think 111s were good...in their day. All of Dan Air's ones had about 4,000,000,000 miles on the clock, tho'.
All this modern stuff.....can't beat the sound and vibration of four Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors cranking up prior to letting the brakes off. Wings flapping, exhaust flames, deckhead linings rattling about and all before moving ......converted me to Christianity as a child.
I flew in an Argosy once, jeez that was hair raising, we went on an air test I swear the jockey thought he was driving a crop duster.
This is what I do we had to test a pin on the bogie to establish if it would achieve 30 years service without failure, we did just that!
I beg to differ. As a wee nipper, we went off to Spain in a Super Constellation - the weird-looking thing with three tails. Everything, but everything vibrated all the way to Alicante. I still have several fillings missing. Gas turbines are the best things ever invented
Where in your picture is THE pin? I saw an aircraft wing break, while being fatigue tested, it rained rivets for quite a few seconds!! Tony
Lucky guy, I would love to fly in a 'Connie' nearest thing I got to that was an Olympic Airways DC6 from Athens to Heraklion on my honeymoon. Gas turbines..................Heartless things, you can't do anything to them, not like a piston engine. Tony
If you look at the arch where the wheel set sits on the right hand side of the frame, look to the left & there's a pin with a steel plate over the top, it's mirror imaged on the left out of camera shot - this is where we connected the actuator & applied tensile & compressive loading
We used to build sub assemblies for the Argosy when I was an Appy at Hawker Aircraft Co in Kingston in the '60's. Tony
Close Snotty, known affectionately as the whistling tit, so youre on the right lines with Bristols. Its an armstong whitley argosy.