Memories, what I used to do for a job.

Yep!! and the washing lines flashing past on the other side!!
Tony

 

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'.

 

i recall one of britains worst crashes was a dan air job in the 80's?

 

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.

 

"Real airplanes have round engines and two sets of wings,"............ and open cockpits!!
Tony

 

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.

 

I thought it was another one of your resto pictures.

 

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

 

Is that a Bristol...something?

 

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.

 

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, built in Coventry.
Tony

 

Used to work on these buggers as well