Just had the word this morning from a previous employer that my old jobs come up for grabs again and seen as its the only job i think ive every actually enjoyed doing i thought it would be rude not to.
Ill be working back on this beast





only temporary for a start but the chance is there to get my foot back in the door for this show season.
Im really happy so i thought id tell some one.

mark.

 

dam i hate you lol
bet its awsome in the flesh mate

 

It is ausome you cant really gauge how massive the thing is and how many knooks and crannies there is to get stuck in lol

 

so what do you do on it exactly?

yes i am gonna ask you 1million questions lol

 

They have one of these in the RAF museum 5mins from my house. It if fooking massive.


What needs to be done to it?

 

I will mainly be work on all the ground equipment this time but last time i was doing all sorts changing motors and pumps and stuff and even had a hand in putting the engines in
Its just in finishing off its winter check up after last years show season so i think there a couple of engines to go back in after rolls royce have checked them over and gave them the ok then just checking of all the electrical systems over.

 

now you have a dream job mate

stupid question i know but do you get to sit in the cockpit?
i bet its weird aint it?

 

Yeah ive sat in the cockpit theyre abit touchy about it now though because its got the proper ejector seats in so theres a chance you can knock into one of them and set the charges off and before you know about it there scrapping you off the ceiling lol

 

at least you can say that works lol

so its fully functioning i guess apart from weapons of course

 

Yeah it all works like you say bar the weapons systems because they were taken out by the RAF when they used to use it for displays at air shows
And the radar because obviously they dont need it and its about the same size and weight of a small car. You can just about make out where it fits in the nose cone from the pictures the lower half drops away and its mounted up there

 

i was at brunters when they fired the fucker up
i was working on a refrigerated trailer and playing with all the old machines lol
my god it was loud
but so cool
i envy you

 

I would of been sitting in one of the fire engines doing the fire cover
Another good thing is i can go and play on the track on my lunch breaks again

 

WOW thats cool!

Congrats on getting your job back fella.