Here is a video of engines start and taxi of a flyable BAC 111, with Rolls-Royce SPEY engines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-CNrtQpXWs
Putting the aircraft back in flyable status would be Huge$$$ undertaking. If log books could be found for that airframe, and for the engines, landing gear, control surfaces, flight controls and servos, pressurization systems, wheels, brake system.. and the myriad of other items that must be certified to be "in specification".... and you could find repair stations still certified to test and overhaul each component. The Rolls-Royce SPEY engines, inclusive of all variants, only accounts for 2,768 ever produced. So the supply of flyable spare parts after the airframes were flown to the end of service life and retired, is likely now tiny, if any even exist. The RR SPEY engine failed to meet noise abatement regulations in EU and all models were decommissioned and removed from service. US Carriers soon followed. So, win the lottery, spend a few decades trying to find spares and log books, bring it into FAA compliance and inspection, and you still have a ramp dog that can not be flown, even if you could find an ATP flight crew that were type certificated in one... Scrap.... On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 8:50 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I flew a VAC 111 to IAD from Heathrow back in the late 60s. The landing > was unbelievably smooth and the cabin very quiet. > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 8:34 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > NO TITTLE FLEW WHEN PARKED NO LOBALLERS HMU WHEN YOU READY TO FLY > > > > --FT > > Sent from iFōn > > > > > On Nov 14, 2021, at 7:58 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < > > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/686845188953034/ > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
