The Bluebird Project

This week.. Oi are mostly bin....

Trying to wrap my head around the rather surreal circumstance of being a feature on ITV News!

http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2014/07/tick ... colnshire/

There are still a few slots left but they're going fast!

Mike Bull wrote:Seems that the eyes of the world made her No.2 engine go shy- she's still in her hangar tonight...

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I don't know what the fuss is about - she still has two spare! It's not as though she'll be carrying 10 tons of ordinance.

Gremlins aside it should be a relative doddle- Lancs were of course designed to eat up the hours and there's a huge redundancy left in the machine if she lost an engine. One thing I've read reckons that she'll be met and escorted in not only by our Lanc, but also by the Red Arrows, trailing red, wh...

It's a man's life in the BBP!

It'll fix.

Although half-joking, my thinking was along the line of what was built first (the crane jib), knowing that it wasn't quite as straight as it could have been and everything thereafter having to be adjusted accordingly.

Renegadenemo wrote:Then we fitted a sponson only to discover that we're missing a quarter of an inch of boat somewhere. Hmmmm.

Given that they' seem to be about the only bits built 100% to spec, I wouldn't rule out you having 'gained' a quarter of an inch of sponson (x2, of course) over the originals.

It could be argued, quite reasonably, that every ounce of support for Bloodhound SSC is the product of well over 30 years of relentless campaigning on the part of the man behind the 31 year British domination of the record (where the hell is his Knighthood??!): Every scrap of support for Thrust 2 wa...

...as an enthusiast I'd still rather that the ROYAL AIR FORCE museum spent its efforts on recovering lost RAF types, or restoring more of the ones they have... And perhaps not completely smashing up and destroying one of only two complete surviving examples of a type, right outside the front door o...