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Post by amarrahh on Dec 10, 2017 20:47:42 GMT 1
You are so right Viscount, one day I will get my sh*t together and clean and scan the slide collection and save for history. Until that happens it's furry slides as my life is just a tad hectic 😉
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Post by viscount on Dec 10, 2017 22:53:40 GMT 1
With a little organisation, I can dust clean the following 4 slides while the previous batch of 4 are being scanned. The difference in outcome is attainable without much extra time being spent on the whole scanning operation.
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Post by radiostationx on Dec 10, 2017 22:55:46 GMT 1
Some greats here,so many livery variants, what a feast ! robaero great gate line ups there earlier on, nice job ! Done a couple of restorations of photos by amarrahh , he has some nice ones too. Watch this space. Still waiting for someone to put up the only "mackky dee" c10 I have flown on, one of the My Travel/Airtours "kestrel 000 heavy" DC-10-30s based at MAN. When I seen this beauty being towed up to the departure gate, that made my holiday ! ..got her on way back as well, think it was FUE for summer that year.
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Post by Beemer on Dec 10, 2017 23:18:20 GMT 1
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Post by amarrahh on Dec 11, 2017 19:44:29 GMT 1
Big big thanks to Mike @ radiostationx for helping to see what a bit of time, effort and some software can do to my damaged slides. Really impressed. before-after-dc10 by Amarrahh Tidacha, on Flickr
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Post by radiostationx on Dec 11, 2017 22:47:22 GMT 1
And the mighty British Cally DC-10...This photo taken by amarrahh and is seen earlier on page 1 of this thread. Here she is cleaned up a bit, a smidgen of "DC jelly" evident under No 3 motor.
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Post by Samba on Dec 13, 2017 10:42:35 GMT 1
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Post by Samba on Dec 13, 2017 10:43:10 GMT 1
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Post by Samba on Dec 13, 2017 10:43:44 GMT 1
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Post by Samba on Dec 13, 2017 10:44:18 GMT 1
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Post by amarrahh on Dec 16, 2017 6:44:55 GMT 1
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Post by acklington on Dec 16, 2017 11:03:24 GMT 1
In the third shot above, why has the NorthWest Orient 747 in the background taken a nose dive???
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Post by ian531 on Dec 16, 2017 13:07:10 GMT 1
In the third shot above, why has the NorthWest Orient 747 in the background taken a nose dive??? Well spotted - I didn’t notice that Something has definitely gone wrong Ian
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Post by northbynorthwest on Dec 16, 2017 15:33:46 GMT 1
In the third shot above, why has the NorthWest Orient 747 in the background taken a nose dive??? A couple of my coworkers are old time Northwest employees, and I will see them when I go to work this afternoon, so I will hopefully get all the details then. I started at Northwest in 1989 and I can vaguely remember hearing about this.
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Post by northbynorthwest on Dec 17, 2017 7:33:12 GMT 1
Ok, here is the story behind the Northwest Orient 747-200 at Gatwick according to a coworker who was very involved with this incident. He believes it was in 1986 or 87, and the aircraft was N603US. The aircraft flew Minneapolis to Gatwick on flight number NW44, and had an issue with one of the two body gear mechanisms which rendered the aircraft out of service. Parts were sent over to Gatwick for Gatwick Handling mechanics to repair. The aircraft was towed over to the hardstands by the freight area, where it was worked on. Part of the maintenance procedure was to have to swing the offending body gear five times, and a requirement was to have the nose gear locking pin in place. Well, the locking pin used was apparently a standard issue Boeing one, whereas Northwest’s locking pin had a large fabric streamer which was supposed to be wrapped around the landing gear to help prevent the gear pin from slipping out. Well, it did slip out and resulted in the nose gear slowly collapsing, damaging the gear doors and very little other damage. However, it meant that the aircraft was stuck at LGW for another week. Apparently, the British Caledonian 747-200 alongside had recently blown an engine.
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