Hi all

[Steven000]

Welcome Ed!
Engine men are awesome.
Steven

[AlanG]

Welcome Ed!
Engine men are awesome.
Steven

Duel-trade (cross trained) rigger/sooties are even better lol

[Del640]

Welcome!

You're going to love it here..... I've learnt so much it's unreal.

Del

[papa 695]

Hi and welcome to the forum Ed

[Andy the Sheep]

Ed,
a warm welcome from Italy by someone who re-started after 35 years. It's a complete new world, as someone has already pointed out.
Your mentioning the RB199 brought to my memory a Varsity test I had to pass: the input data where those of an endothermic engine and at the end of my calculations the outcomes where so high I thougth I completely failed the test until the day after, when the professor told us we worked on the RB 199 data :cold-sweat:. Of course, my career went in a totally different direction, but that's life...:thinking:.
Welcome again.
Andrea

[AlanG]

My loving memory of the RB199 is wearing the kidney belts on engine runs, the smell of the burnt avtur (lovely) and watching the diamonds in the reheat at night (joyous)

[AlanG]

Ed. Just notice you worked on 3 Sqn Majors. Was that at Saints?

[EdStep]

Morning

Welcome aboard sir!!

Bob

Thank you Bob

[EdStep]

Hi Ed
Welcome to a very friendly, helpful forum.
Jim

Thank you Jim

[EdStep]

A warm welcome to the forum, Ed.

I think you are very greedy now that you have TWO bridges to use!

Join in and have fun - We do.

Ron

Thank you Ron

Only one bridge is open to traffic but that's a sore subject to locals and I rarely use the new one as my work takes me to Manchester when I'm not working from home.

[EdStep]

Welcome!

Thank you

[EdStep]

Hi Ed welcome to the group. I'm a big fan of Jags and the Kitty Hawk builds up nice but does put up a fight. Look forward to seeing it. My effort but still needs a RAF pilot

Thank you and that's a great looking model. I saw groundcrew in the cockpit of Jags more often than jockeys as they were always breaking them.

[EdStep]

Ed,
a lot has happened in the last 30 years to the modelling world - new materials, new makers and a choice of subjects that is truly amazing.
There's a wide range of modellers here, and just a query will give you friendly advice & help.
Welcome to the forum!
Dave

Thanks Dave. I have to admit, the models I'm seeing today are something else. The one thing that I have noticed more than anything is the weathering techniques. My models used to look like they just rolled out of the painters, but I'm ok with that as most of the jets I worked on were in for majors and had a refinish programmed in. The accuracy does blow me away though I have to say.

[EdStep]

Welcome Ed :thumb2:

Thanks Si

[EdStep]

A warm welcome from Germany from me Ed. Dive in and have some fun. A great bunch of folks here too!!!

Prost
Allen

Thanks Allen