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Agreed (especially the bit about the wife!!!) I thought Chris was maybe referring to the likes of RWR warnings etc on military winged implements, I'm sure there was an F-16 shoot-down that was partially atributed to the pilot having the volume turned down on the warning horn whilst in "hot" airspace, might have been the Scott O'Grady incident over Bosnia. Irritates the s*** out of me when our "sparkies" pull the CB's for the Capt and F/O Loudspeakers and don't tell anyone! I'm sitting there getting all the visual cues for an op test but no bloody bells n whistles til the penny drops as to what's going on! Can see there point, repeatedly being called "Retard, retard, retard" does tend to upset the sparkies!! Eng

Great pic's love the last one of the Tonka's and all the F-15 start-up/taxi pic's, not to mention the F-15 landing with the tree in the pic and the other F-15 just at the top left of the pic - Superb for a caught off-guard moment!! Grae

If I remember correctly the rear wing body fairings are very slightly different, probably due to the wing changes, but I'm sure the changes in 1/144 would probably be negligible. The profiles on previously mentioned site should show differences. Unfortunately (or fortunately for me!!) BA have no -200's anymore, but 737-3/4/500 pic's shouldnt be a prob. Eng

Looks nice,and pretty good quality to boot, a quick evening build too! Eng

Ref the discussion on 737 differences, I've worked on the -200's and the "classics" (300/400/500), and the primary differences all centre around the wing. Boeing effectively re-winged the -200 when they designed the 300/400/500. The wing to body fairings are different, the span is increased from 93ft to 94ft 10in, and the spoilers on the upper surface were increased from 8 to 10 on the -3/4/500. There is a superb website with more info than you can shake a stick at here - http://www.b737.org.uk/index.htm If there's any info or pic's you want of the -300/400/500, I have daily access to a 1/1 model, just drop me a PM. Rgds, Eng

Sound's good to me! I'm just in from work and have done this on 3 separate items this evening to get our aircraft away, a small pipe clamp, a cargo roller mat and a standby flight instrument. We do 737 and Airbus 319/320/321 maintenance at Glasgow and this sort of thing is really common, most commercial airlines call this "robbery", where a component is removed serviceable from a donor aircraft (usually one already in maintenance or one just started in the hangar) and fitted to another in order to make it serviceable. Although it's removed "serviceable" things like the standby flight instrument still require to be tested on fitment to the receiving aircraft to check the integrity of the system and the operation. For us the limiting factor is the effectivity of the aircraft, i.e if it's an A319 going out and a 320 coming in not all the parts are interchangeable and it may not be possible to swap items. Some of the stranger items I've seen robbed included a complete horizontal stabilizer and a baby change table!! Panels are very common. Eng

Ironically the same aircraft I posted about last night in Real Aviation, see "Top Tonka - Glasgow visitor 7th April"!!!! Superb pic! Eng

Ever been glad you were still at work when you should be in the house? I was this evening! Our office in the hangar overlooks Glasgows main runway to the North and I was just handing over the evenings work to a colleague when we were rather abruptly interupted by some hellish noise from outside. On glancing out the window there was nothing on the runway, but from behind the control tower appeared a 25 Sqn Tonka going hell-for-leather in FULL reheat at no more than 40-50ft off the deck right to the very end of the runway before rocketing skywards until it dissapeared into the rather dull,grey sky!! Damn, what a great reason to be late home, and a great end to my week!! Only the day before I'd been driving to work thinking I'd not had my fill of fast-jet noise for ages and how cool would it be to be passing the runway lights just as a Tonka or Typhoon did an overshoot. I always seen to miss any overshoots and there's never enough anyway. Looking on the web tonight at - http://www.egpf.vze.com/ I found this wee snippet of info - RAF aircraft on Runway 09. ZE969(FH) Tornado 1120/1840 "Savage 2" *1st visit*. Diverted in due to bird strike on the cockpit canopy. Company Tornado "Savage 5" was in the overhead untill this aircraft landed safely.Both en route from Leeming to Leuchars. What I thought was just a really low pass was the aircraft departing. Anyone know any more than this? Eng

GrahamEM, Any chance of a link to the Typhoon pic on your avator? Looks like a stunner of a pic! Eng

Beautiful Oz, was tempted by one of these ages ago but gave it the body swerve as no-one else seemed to be buying them and never saw any built up - will just have to re-evaluate my decision!! Eng

Pic's 2 and 3 are brilliant - looks like somfing from Roswell or Area 51!!!! Eng

Agree that the wing flex is pretty big but the flaps would suggest a landing config! Anyone e-mailed the photographer to ask for more info? Eng

Cool, right where a Bucc should be. Brilliant kit and brilliant display - LOVIN IT!!! Eng

Wicked, that is one sweet build - what a great looking kite too! Eng

Graham, Looks great mate, respect for putting that beauty together so well. I can sympathise with you on this one I've got the same conversion set in the loft and after taking a closer look AFTER I'd bought it I thought nah, no chance, so it's still in the loft to this day and I certainly won't be butchering a perfectly good Hase GR.7 for this T.10 conversion, (sorry Heritage peep's!). A lovely build and you deserve many, many beer tokens for this. Eng

True I'm more concerned about the big bald patches on the main wheel of the real aircraft back on page 1 of the thread - very 1st pic!!! I'd have had my bottom kicked for that, should've been changed days ago!!!! Eng

Looking good, it's just too hard not to add something extra even when trying OoB! I'm just as guilty. Eng

Got this through Amazon yesterday for £11.86 incl P+P (RRP is £12.99), a great follow on to the OIF book with lots more profile artwork's and scrap views, as well as great descriptions of operations from air and ground crews - will get you wanting to build Tomcat's!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Combat-Aircraft-70...2395&sr=8-1 Eng

This landing left severe damage to the aft fuselage frames that reqd the aircraft shipped across the Thames river on a barge to be repaired in a warehouse, as LCY is limited for space. The repairs took approx 3 months! Eng

TwoSix decals already do a sheet for the 101Sqn anniversary scheme on the VC-10 for the Airfix kit, and the Airfix kit now has one of the two options being for the "grey" VC-10 out of the box. Eng

Really tempted to tease the wingleted flier's here but not today! This is pretty scary and I'm right with BusDriver and PHaTNesS on the call for an earlier go-around. From the point of view of an Engineer, hopefully all the damage in this instance has been taken by the winglets which can be removed fairly quickly, and if necessary the aircraft flown without one or both (Correct me if I'm wrong, BD!). The penalty for removal of winglets is usually slightly higher fuel burn and more drag, again BD will know the exact fig's. The procedure for removal and re-calculating fuel is found in the aircraft MEL (Minimum Equipment List - a book listing what systems and components the aircraft can have removed or de-activated without any risks to the safe operation of the aircraft. It also details how this must be carried out, and what the engineers and crew need to be aware of as well as limits as to how long the items can be made inoperative). Doesn't look like a hard touchdown so heavy landing checks probably not required, just a damn good inspection of the wingtip structure...........and cleaning of some pax seat covers! Eng

Nah, orange just isn't my colour! http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Air...next_id=1032785 Eng

Yep, awesome paint job and weathering is spot-on!! Would love to see this PhotoChop'd into some RAF Coltishall backgrounds to see if anyone could pick it out as a model!! Eng

Stunning, a beautiful job. Eng

Lovely Lightning, Bill. Very nice paint job - I like my grey Lightnings! Eng