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03 Oct 2016 20:27 - 03 Oct 2016 20:30 #1
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I see that the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency is operating a new aircraft
hmcoastguard.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/coas...search-aircraft.html
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HM Coastguard has a new eye in the sky from September 2016, as a Jetstream 41 turboprop aircraft is being trialled as part of a development to support our search and rescue (SAR) helicopters.
The new plane is painted in red and white HM Coastguard colours and will be patrolling the southern and eastern seaboard.
The aim of the trial is to assess whether a fixed-wing aircraft will provide valuable additional support for our SAR helicopters. The new capability will help save lives at sea by identifying people, boats or ships in distress.
The Coastguard Jetstream is provided by Eastern Airways on behalf of Bristow Helicopters and has a dedicated crew. The aircraft will be controlled through the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC), just like our SAR helicopters, and will be tasked where there is a risk to life and in support of the helicopters.
If the trial is successful, options for permanent provision will be explored, possibly in combination with similar requirements elsewhere in Government.
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29 Aug 2017 21:31 #2
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Encountered 3 and a bit Jetstreams last weekend during visits to AST Perth and East Fortune. Jetstream 1 G-NFLC and parts of another reside at Perth while G-JSSD and Super 31 N14234 's fuselage are on display beside Concorde at East Fortune.
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29 Aug 2017 21:59 - 29 Aug 2017 22:00 #3
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You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
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To me it is the HP Jetsream with Astazou XVID engines, did part of my apprenticeship with Jetsream Ltd at Leavesden in the early 1970s, then in the late 70s to mid 80s with RR testing and passing off RAF Astazou engines for the Jetsream fleet
You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!
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30 Aug 2017 09:45 #4
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Yes, Paul, it was nice to see the example at Perth was labelled as Handley Page HP.137 Jetstream 1.
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30 Aug 2017 16:59 #5
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So the Jetstream is to have a role with the Coastguard. Anyone remember the 748 coastguard variant?
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30 Aug 2017 22:11 #6
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Some commercial Jetstreams are powered with Garrett TPE 331 engines. The two Jetstream 31 sold to the Royal Saudi Air Force had TPE 331 engines with water/methanol injection for take-off boost under high air temperature conditions. Rare and difficult to source resulting in AOGs......
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Good to see G-NFLC in one piece and being well looked after. I had my first flight in it on a short course at Cranfield in 1983, under its previous guise as G-AXUI.
It was re-registered as G-NFLC once the National Flying Laboratory Centre was set up as part of the University.
It was retired up to AST at Perth in 2004, to be replaced by a Jetstream 31 G-NFLA, still in service at Cranfield.
It was re-registered as G-NFLC once the National Flying Laboratory Centre was set up as part of the University.
It was retired up to AST at Perth in 2004, to be replaced by a Jetstream 31 G-NFLA, still in service at Cranfield.
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14 Sep 2017 06:45 #8
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BAe used to operate a fleet of ' Communcations ' Jetstreams for transporting people between sites - they replaced the venerable DH Doves - I see a fuselage in BAe livery is in the background of one of the shots.
Dunsfold's example was leased from the Distillers Group and had the apt reg' G-BWWW ( Whisky Whisky Whisky ) - it had a VIP style interior with less seats, a well fitted coffee making ' bar ' and I believe Garret engines.
I have to say it was a retrograde step for me as a Dunsfold site photographer, as the Dove had a removable wc window and upper escape hatch ( in either case removed before flight ) allowing photography without shooting through perspex, but the Jetstream was pressurised with nasty thick curved distorting windows - then again I don't think aerial photography was in the design brief...
Dunsfold's example was leased from the Distillers Group and had the apt reg' G-BWWW ( Whisky Whisky Whisky ) - it had a VIP style interior with less seats, a well fitted coffee making ' bar ' and I believe Garret engines.
I have to say it was a retrograde step for me as a Dunsfold site photographer, as the Dove had a removable wc window and upper escape hatch ( in either case removed before flight ) allowing photography without shooting through perspex, but the Jetstream was pressurised with nasty thick curved distorting windows - then again I don't think aerial photography was in the design brief...
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After spending a long period of time tucked away out of view at Bruntingthorpe, Jetstream XX494 has found a new home at East Midlands Airport's Aero Park. A nice addition & it will compliment the Aeroparks Varsity nicely (& hopefully it willl finally get some props attached to it) -
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Back in the mid '60s, I was a founder member of Air Britain's Chorleywood Branch.
Johnny Allum, CTP for Handley Page Radlett, was an honorary member and one evening he did a short talk giving us details of the new HP 'private venture' small transport aircraft which became the Jetstream; must've been late 1965.
My main encounter came in 1979 when I attended RAF Leeming for an Air Training Corps instructors course. We visited the main servicing hangar one day and the SNCO i/c mentioned they had just had an 'instruction' from Turbomeca to switch the oil from 90 weight to 80 weight and had experienced several engine failures. He said they weren't permitted to defy the instruction and go back to 90 weight oil.
The aircraft were the T1 Jetsream with Astazou engines, presumably the later XVI version and were operated by METS; yes we did get a flight in one; it felt noisy and cramped.
Johnny Allum, CTP for Handley Page Radlett, was an honorary member and one evening he did a short talk giving us details of the new HP 'private venture' small transport aircraft which became the Jetstream; must've been late 1965.
My main encounter came in 1979 when I attended RAF Leeming for an Air Training Corps instructors course. We visited the main servicing hangar one day and the SNCO i/c mentioned they had just had an 'instruction' from Turbomeca to switch the oil from 90 weight to 80 weight and had experienced several engine failures. He said they weren't permitted to defy the instruction and go back to 90 weight oil.
The aircraft were the T1 Jetsream with Astazou engines, presumably the later XVI version and were operated by METS; yes we did get a flight in one; it felt noisy and cramped.
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