Rolls Royce for sale; never raced or rallied.

[hidetheelephants]

The college I'm attending ATM has an RR Avon turbojet for disposal; any takers? They don't seem to have a clue how to get rid of it, so suggestions silly or otherwise invited.

[Oily Nails]

Does your College have a Automotive Department?
Do they have a spare 'scrapper' chasis?
Do they have a hammer wielding Chav Eejit on the City & Guilds course?
Does the College want to improve thier 'scores' for the year?

If they can answer YES to any or all of these...I think we have the makings of the UK's best chance for the Darwin Awards in years!

[Eric Mc]

What's it out of?

[Shar2]

Which college? We're looking at getting another engine for our students to work on.

[navier_stokes]

Would make one very interesting garden ornament... how much do you want for it

[hidetheelephants]

It bears the mark of RNAY Fleetlands, so my educated guess is that it was out of a DH Seavixen or a Supermarine Scimitar. The story is that the college obtained it to offer GT maintenance tuition, to take advantage of the increased use of GT gensets on oilplatforms and the like in the 1980s. However, for some reason the additional cost of obtaining the right tooling necessary to do the work made them give up on the idea. It all sounds a bit half-baked to me. Shar2, PM for details.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Monday 18th May 10:33

Edited by hidetheelephants on Monday 18th May 10:39

[Eric Mc]

My guess would be a Sea Vixen then.

[Shar2]

HTE, having looked at your profile, I think that it would be quite a task to get it down to London. May be of some use to the Newcastle Aviation Academy though?

Eric, could it not have come from a FRADU Hunter? Fleetlands used to keep spares for them as well.

[Eric Mc]

I'm sure it could as well. I suppose it depends on when they acquired it.

[Shar2]

Thinking about it, the Avon could also have come from a Canberra. It's amazing how many aircraft were powered by this type of engine.

[john_p]

I want it, just to put in my garage and annoy the neighbours.*





* for five miles around.

[Taffer]

Oily Nails said:

Does your College have a Automotive Department?
Do they have a spare 'scrapper' chasis?
Do they have a hammer wielding Chav Eejit on the City & Guilds course?
Does the College want to improve thier 'scores' for the year?

If they can answer YES to any or all of these...I think we have the makings of the UK's best chance for the Darwin Awards in years!

If this is the engine that's at Glasgow College of Nautical Studies, I call dibs - I've been on course there for 16 weeks and live 5 miles away!

Does your College have an Automotive Department?
No, but there's plenty of marine and mech engineers

Do they have a spare 'scrapper' chassis?
The department's Transit Connect would be perfect!

Do they have a hammer wielding Chav Eejit on the City & Guilds course?
A suitable ned could be found

Does the College want to improve their 'scores' for the year?
Well, they could just scrap the beauty therapy and sports 'science' courses and move several places up any league table, but that's beside the point

The Museum Of Flight at East Fortune or Perth College (which runs aircraft engineering courses) would probably be the best bet for a proper new home.

[hidetheelephants]

Taffer, what phase are you? I'm just finishing up; cramming for the EOOW exam in Greenock.

[Taffer]

hidetheelephants said:

Taffer, what phase are you? I'm just finishing up; cramming for the EOOW exam in Greenock.

Post-grad course, so I've just done all the workshop stuff in one chunk. I then do my sea time in one chunk (looking like it'll be 6 week trips with one or two weeks off in between), so I should be sitting my orals Feb/Mar next year. Good luck with the exams - got a job lined up or are you taking a break before venturing into the world with your EOOW ticket?

[hidetheelephants]

Snap! Postgrad also. Are you (un)lucky enough to be with Clyde and (dare I say it) Zodiac? Have you got a ship yet? We should mebbe have a pint and I can tell you some tall tales.

[spitfire-ian]

Shar2 said:

Thinking about it, the Avon could also have come from a Canberra. It's amazing how many aircraft were powered by this type of engine.

According to Wikipedia...

CA-27 Avon-Sabre
de Havilland Sea Vixen
English Electric Canberra
English Electric Lightning
Fairey Delta
Hawker Hunter
Ryan X-13 Vertijet
Saab 35 Draken
Saab Lansen
Supermarine Swift
Vickers Valiant
de Havilland Comet
Sud Aviation Caravelle

The engine in the OP is not, however, from a Lightning

[Taffer]

hidetheelephants said:

Snap! Postgrad also. Are you (un)lucky enough to be with Clyde and (dare I say it) Zodiac? Have you got a ship yet? We should mebbe have a pint and I can tell you some tall tales.

I am with Clyde Marine, but Zodiac? Hell no! I've heard a lot more bad than good about them - I put my preference in for three offshore supply companies and got Trico Marine (2nd choice). First choice was Acergy, but Trico seem alright (not done a trip with them mind) and apparently view cadets as potential fourth engineers rather than tax breaks/cheap labour. PM me if you want to meet - I'm probably heading down to Cumbria to visit some mates on Thursday, but will be back on Monday.

[Eric Mc]

spitfire-ian said:

Shar2 said:

Thinking about it, the Avon could also have come from a Canberra. It's amazing how many aircraft were powered by this type of engine.

According to Wikipedia...

CA-27 Avon-Sabre
de Havilland Sea Vixen
English Electric Canberra
English Electric Lightning
Fairey Delta
Hawker Hunter
Ryan X-13 Vertijet
Saab 35 Draken
Saab Lansen
Supermarine Swift
Vickers Valiant
de Havilland Comet
Sud Aviation Caravelle

The engine in the OP is not, however, from a Lightning

And the Lighning having the only variant of the Avon with reheat.

[Nick_F]

Where did that whole rivers thing come from?

Edited by Nick_F on Monday 18th May 17:52

[FourWheelDrift]

Nick_F said:

Where did that whole rivers thing come from?

Something about a rivers running water being a good description of the smooth flowing performance of a jet engine.