Watched this being rebuilt last year:-

http://intranet.bangor.ac.uk/~pss048/CIMG2495.JPG

 

This is it now:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1177081497/img/1.jpg

 

:shock: :shock: Thank fook the pilot ejected, but only just in time.

Ouch !!! at least he got out ok , metal can be replaced :dance:

before any1 says anything... i didnt touch it!

you sure you din't fasten the wings on?????

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...if it was an easyjet or several other well known commercial and freight operators that i maintain, i would go red from my heart up, my jaw would probably drop, there would be a very high possibility of feinting and an equally high consideration for leaving the country to escape manslaughter charges and god knows what else!

 

and... if any1 on here just so happened to be on an easyjet a319 a few weeks back that had a double engine shutdown in flight and luckily was still just close enough to glide back to stansted and land safely, that was pilot error!

the aircraft was quaruntined by the air accident investigation bureau and we were investigated... i wont go into details but the pilot forgot to select a switch b4 take off resulting in total loss of thrust... which is not too good when your not touching the ground as i dont believe the AA have setup an aviation division yet!! the pilot was 'asked to leave'!

 

this is the first time in 9 yrs of working on these kites that i positively shat myself, hearing that a kite i was working on less than an hour ago nearly wiped out 'lots' of people!

thankfully aircraft are fitted with whats called an FDR (Flight Data Recorder) so the aaib were able to find the offending problem swiftly. these things are practically bomb proof and are almost always salvageable from a wreckage. it will not be long at all before all manufacturers of cars will have to install a similar system in the production. this will be a great advance when it comes to accident investigation but it will probably advance too much and become capable of autmated issue of speeding tickets :(

 

kin ell im waffling on, has any1 actually read this, iv just looked back over it and it looks like an essay

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...if it was an easyjet or several other well known commercial and freight operators that i maintain, i would go red from my heart up, my jaw would probably drop, there would be a very high possibility of feinting and an equally high consideration for leaving the country to escape manslaughter charges and god knows what else!

 

and... if any1 on here just so happened to be on an easyjet a319 a few weeks back that had a double engine shutdown in flight and luckily was still just close enough to glide back to stansted and land safely, that was pilot error!

the aircraft was quaruntined by the air accident investigation bureau and we were investigated... i wont go into details but the pilot forgot to select a switch b4 take off resulting in total loss of thrust... which is not too good when your not touching the ground as i dont believe the AA have setup an aviation division yet!! the pilot was 'asked to leave'!

 

this is the first time in 9 yrs of working on these kites that i positively shat myself, hearing that a kite i was working on less than an hour ago nearly wiped out 'lots' of people!

thankfully aircraft are fitted with whats called an FDR (Flight Data Recorder) so the aaib were able to find the offending problem swiftly. these things are practically bomb proof and are almost always salvageable from a wreckage. it will not be long at all before all manufacturers of cars will have to install a similar system in the production. this will be a great advance when it comes to accident investigation but it will probably advance too much and become capable of autmated issue of speeding tickets :(

 

kin ell im waffling on, has any1 actually read this, iv just looked back over it and it looks like an essay

 

I did the first line and the last cos I guessed you were waffling :tongue:

They didn't do a very good job on the Rebuild. Did they take it to Grass Hopper by any chance.

They didn't do a very good job on the Rebuild. Did they take it to Grass Hopper by any chance.

 

Yeah but they got sick of waiting and took it to C&S Woods to be finished :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

PMSL!

 

This is what it looked like without the engine.

 

http://intranet.bangor.ac.uk/~pss048/CIMG2496.JPG

http://intranet.bangor.ac.uk/~pss048/CIMG2497.JPG

 

This may aswell have been put in my Zed lol!

http://intranet.bangor.ac.uk/~pss048/CIMG2486.JPG

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...if it was an easyjet or several other well known commercial and freight operators that i maintain,

 

 

You dont work for SRT do you fella?

thankfully aircraft are fitted with whats called an FDR (Flight Data Recorder) so the aaib were able to find the offending problem swiftly.

 

 

I like the way Easyjet hide some of the data on these though so you cant see all of the bad/hard landings etc. :xxx:

You dont work for SRT do you fella?

sure do boss!

 

was at singapore technologies at bournemouth airport for 3 years... but b4 that i was @ fls aerospace, stansted, the very same hangar srt bought off them!

sure do boss!

 

was at singapore technologies at bournemouth airport for 3 years... but b4 that i was @ fls aerospace, stansted, the very same hangar srt bought off them!

 

 

Ah wicked, know most of the people at diamond hanger and on the line. was fixing their computers for a year.

Ah wicked, know most of the people at diamond hanger and on the line. was fixing their computers for a year.

 

aaah cool, iv only been there since jan now but i knew most peeps already from fls days. i work nights in the hangar on the a check team :)

 

i hope you werent involved in the sap system we have recently got as its costing us 250k a week lol!

aaah cool, iv only been there since jan now but i knew most peeps already from fls days. i work nights in the hangar on the a check team :)

 

i hope you werent involved in the sap system we have recently got as its costing us 250k a week lol!

 

 

Ha ha ha! No I was telling them not to be such idiots and the systems they had and were putting in were kack! They kindly asked me to leave July last year.

 

Ah so your working for old what's his face in his office on the mezzanine floor. Ah cant remember, always reminds me of a London market trader, good guy thugh.

Ha ha ha! No I was telling them not to be such idiots and the systems they had and were putting in were kack! They kindly asked me to leave July last year.

 

Ah so your working for old what's his face in his office on the mezzanine floor. Ah cant remember, always reminds me of a London market trader, good guy thugh.

 

you might be referring to sam samad, or perhaps jim kirby?

you might be referring to sam samad, or perhaps jim kirby?

 

 

Jim! :smash: Tell him Nick the old IT guy wants to know if his colour printer is still working lol

Jim! :smash: Tell him Nick the old IT guy wants to know if his colour printer is still working lol

 

lol ok... i always remember jim from the old days... iirc correctly he started out cleaning aircraft @ fls.. he then ended up being employed as a painter with them as his brother was a painter there too.. somehow he managed to work his way from there to a management position and now he is uk line manager for srt!

i wont go into details but the pilot forgot to select a switch b4 take off resulting in total loss of thrust...

 

:shock: :shock: :shock: Isn't that what pre-flight checklists are for?

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thankfully aircraft are fitted with whats called an FDR (Flight Data Recorder) so the aaib were able to find the offending problem swiftly.

 

we have the same sort of thing fitted to Trains can be your saviour or your enemy. Reads what position you have the speed controller in how long you had it open for, what speed your doing what speed your doing over a cautionary signal magnet when you cancelled the AWS automatic warning system horn over a cautionary signal magnet otherwise the emergancy brakes come on automaticlly or if you gone over an over speed loop brakes come on then too, also records what step you have the brake in when braking etc etc records everything, they can tell exactly what speed you been doing at any point on the line. Cant get away from it, if you fook up its all recorded, sometimes they randomly down load them, find out if you fooked up that way as well

Yeah but they got sick of waiting and took it to C&S Woods to be finished :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

Ya joking there wouldn't have been enough left to make an aerofoyle never mind a plane if it had been at Grass Hopper. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: