Yet the Pegasus used a totally different fuel system to the Orph, for some reason, with a big, complicated Dowty setup on top of the engine rather than the usual Lucas bits and bobs. Wouldn't mind a Pegasus to play with, there's always a few for sale. That would do interesting things on our test rig!And what a debt we owe the Harrier, with its Orpheus-derived Pegasus
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Renegadenemo
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I'm only a plumber from Cannock...
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Yes, we could move it between workshops without having to go round the long way via the street 
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Renegadenemo
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Now just how much fun would that be!Yes, we could move it between workshops without having to go round the long way via the street
I'm only a plumber from Cannock...
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The world is full of Kings and Queens; who blind your eyes, then steal your dreams..
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interesting wreck to dive on
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I'd noticed this piece before coming on here today. Awfully nostalgic to view all those pix.
I've great memories of seeing the QE2 being built, as I was living in Glasgow at the time. And then I saw it at very close quarters when it first left John Brown's, at the dry-dock at Greenock for fitting-out, 1968.
Just fabulous, at a time when it seemed Britain could do anything it set its mind to.
Nigel
I've great memories of seeing the QE2 being built, as I was living in Glasgow at the time. And then I saw it at very close quarters when it first left John Brown's, at the dry-dock at Greenock for fitting-out, 1968.
Just fabulous, at a time when it seemed Britain could do anything it set its mind to.
Nigel
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Used to travel a lot by sea when I was a kid. Many trips on the old Canberra, a few on the original Oriana or any other ship we could get a berth on and now and again we'd fetch up in the same port as the QE2. It was like coming across a spaceship - such was her aura and reputation. A beautiful vessel to say the least. So what's she doing in Dubai when there's plenty of space in trendy London dockland?
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So.... the boffins dried the wood out and now its changed shape...... and they didn't expect this ????? REALLY ????? there is a reason old wooden boats are best kept wet and that is if they are allowed to dry out too much the wood shrinks.
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Hardly surprising her shape is changing considering half of her is missing.
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