Classic British Flight Sim

Hi guys,

Just thought I'd pop a couple of snaps on of the Fire Service Trident at Manchester whilst I was out and about the other day.

Gave me an excuse to try out the camera on my mobile.

Certainly looks like its seen better days.

Note the new Control tower in the last snap rising up from the ground. Its being built at a staggering rate.

Every day seems to be another 10-20 feet. Its much higher than this now.

Thanks for that Eddie

Interesting shots.

I doesn't look like the Trident will be flying out any time soon

Indeed mate.

In fact I always think its comical that the poor tatty Trident is a kind of unofficial gate guardian to Air Livery workshop.

Always made me wonder if they plonked it outside their hanger as a joke.

Who knows

Just looking at it...a clean up and a bit of panel patching and filler it could be resprayed and look quite decent.

A good training project for the apprentices and a worthwile sign for the shop.

Like that, it's just a piece of junk sadly

Poor thing.

Brian

Can't they just swap the textures for new ones?

Nigel²

nigelb wrote:Can't they just swap the textures for new ones?

Nigel²

Yeah, ones without all that bump-mapping below the cockpit.

Brian

G-AVFG was fully green last I saw it! The red and white livery is from when it was destroyed for use as a crashed airliner for the TV drama "Always and Everyone" (I believe). What you see today is actually two broken sections panelled back together. Inside it contains some very large blue "first class" type seats that obviously came from another type.

The sad part was for many years after withdrawal it was complete and able to be powered up at Heathrow. It was the first aircraft painted into the Landor scheme.

I used to see it at LHR often and thought it such a shame that well after the type had gone such a complete and active specimen should end up as it did.

Just as well for 'FB at Duxford.