Short Belfast anyone?

[FourWheelDrift]

http://www.aviatorsale.com/aix7529/

Rare load lugger (only 10 ever built) currently residing in Australia, ex-Heavylift.

Would be great to see it back here and flying too. We need a Tyne engined aircraft on the airshow scene.

[bob1179]

I didn't realise there were any left.

Awesome plane, such a shame so few were built in the first place.

[Eric Mc]

Give it back to the RAF (from whence it originally came). They are chronically short of heavy lifting capacity.

[Shedofdread]

One wonders why all this mucking about with A400M came about - should have just dusted off the plans for this old thing and got going. I could've stuck a quote in...

[Eric Mc]

Yep - shove on some new generation turboprops and off you go, Belfast MkII - although that wouldn't have created many jobs in Toulouse, Hamburg, Madrid etc - just maybe a few hundred in Belfast and other UK locations.

[Shedofdread]

Eric Mc said:

Yep - shove on some new generation turboprops and off you go, Belfast MkII - although that wouldn't have created many jobs in Toulouse, Hamburg, Madrid etc - just maybe a few hundred in Belfast and other UK locations.

Sir,
You've hit the nail absolutely upon the head. My post was lighthearted but behind it was that particular, serious point.

S

[Eric Mc]

Aye - politics and aeroplanes - it was always thus.

[topsparks]

There was a mock up of the Belfasts fuselage in the Movements training hanger at Brize Norton,it was much bigger than the Herc,we still used it for training but had lines down either side to replicate the smaller size of the C 130!,back in those days having C17's was a Movers pipe dream!

[Simpo Two]

Eric Mc said:

Give it back to the RAF (from whence it originally came). They are chronically short of heavy lifting capacity.

I don't think they have $980,000.

An RAF coffee morning perhaps?

Or we could club together like in WW2 and have a 'City of Pistonheads' Spitfire.

Edited by Simpo Two on Wednesday 25th August 22:44

[Shedofdread]

And when we've got it, drop it off at my shed and I'll take a set a moulds off it. We can get churning them out and hey presto, the RAFs heavy lift solution! What could possibly go wrong?