Looks good enough to make a coupla coke runs before getting abandoned --FT Sent from iFōn
> On Nov 15, 2021, at 12:59 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > It could make a motor home or two --- > >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 11:11 PM G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> > > -- > OK Don > > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to > pause and reflect." Mark Twain > > “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher > Von Braun > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > 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
