Happy Bristol

[Gavin Conroy]

Here she is now running both engines together and it was very noisy.
We are at this poihnt now and a lot of happy helpers around at the moment.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

It's gonna be great to see her next easter!
I can see Ian Garlick's car in the background, what a surprise he was there.

[beaufighterguy]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Sep 2 2008, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's gonna be great to see her next easter!
I can see Ian Garlick's car in the background, what a surprise he was there.

Nice as always Gavin.
How do you know Ian?I'm friends with his son Reece Ian's a great guy .

[Daniel]

Man thats cool Hey are they going to put a spinner on the number 1 prop?
Shame I can't go there at easter Too hard to get there for myself.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (beaufighterguy @ Sep 2 2008, 06:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice as always Gavin.
How do you know Ian?I'm friends with his son Reece

Yeah Reece is my best mate from way back! Small world aye?

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Ian's a great guy .[/quote]

I think absolute legend is the correct term. Almost in Ian Warren's league
Isn't he famous for taking one look at a Piper he was asked to fix and saying
"F**k, the f**king thing's f**ked!"

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[beaufighterguy]

Hey your not Tom are you?I think he said something onece like my friend Tom in Wellington.
btw I've known him from when I was like 5.

[bestpilotindaworld]

I think absolute legend is the correct term. Almost in Ian Warren's league
Isn't he famous for taking one look at a Piper he was asked to fix and saying
"F**k, the f**king thing's f**ked!"
[/quote]

Na thats an engineer's saying in NSN

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Sep 2 2008, 10:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ian Warren's league

GO BRISTOL ! never played the game , don't no the rules , have,t even been been on a paddock

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (beaufighterguy @ Sep 3 2008, 08:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey your not Tom are you?I think he said something onece like my friend Tom in Wellington.
btw I've known him from when I was like 5.

Yea that's me

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Sep 3 2008, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

GO BRISTOL ! never played the game , don't no the rules , have,t even been been on a paddock

It's not a game Ian, it's just how ya roll

[Njbb1995]

Look forward to seeing this @ classic fighters. how much work would it be to get it flying?

[Yak52aholic]

QUOTE (njbb1995 @ Sep 3 2008, 06:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

how much work would it be to get it flying?

My guess is the state of the airframe it would take alot of time and money to get that going. It's a pity I'm never around to see these things. BTW a C-130 just went past my house on approach.

[Anthony]

QUOTE (njbb1995 @ Sep 3 2008, 06:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Look forward to seeing this @ classic fighters. how much work would it be to get it flying?

Good call, back to the topic at hand
I believe the last Bristol thread said that it would taxi but not fly due to the amount of work involved, so I assume it's there's a lot of hard work to make it flyable.
Nice to see the Bristol has both engines going. It does look happy in some kind of way.

[beaufighterguy]

QUOTE (Yak52aholic @ Sep 3 2008, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My guess is the state of the airframe it would take alot of time and money to get that going. It's a pity I'm never around to see these things. BTW a C-130 just went past my house on approach.

Nah it's most unlikely it would fly again as the body has been sand blasted.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (beaufighterguy @ Sep 3 2008, 06:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nah it's most unlikely it would fly again as the body has been sand blasted.

What's wrong with that? Sandblasting wouldn't affect the strength of the airframe.

[Yak52aholic]

I think they sandblasted the rivets and made them useless for flying.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Yak52aholic @ Sep 3 2008, 07:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I think they sandblasted the rivets and made them useless for flying.

Oh yup.. So they'd just fall out aye? Have to admit I did actually laugh after reading that. Cheers for the chuckle, I needed it.

It's just the same as any other derelict aeroplane- it's just the fact heaps of money would be needed to restore and go over the airframe and fix the damage time has done. There's bound to be corrosion etc.

No sand though


Oh and Beaufighterguy what was your name? We might have met one time when I've been down in Blenheim.