11/01/2014 Spice Group Visit

The Spice Group must like us, because they keep coming back! Being a national group, it does tend to be different members on each visit, however.

They did bring glorious winter sunshine with them, which made a nice change from recent Saturdays, particularly the previous one where the pan was partially flooded!

This time we had 20 members come to visit us. For the systems demonstration we had to omit operating the bomb doors, as the hydraulics system is currently drained following the temporary removal of the No.1 Olympus engine for servicing.

Eric acts as Crew Chief during the systems demonstration.
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For the now mandatory group photo, they had even brought their own poster to advertise the group!

Spice Group pose for the group photo along with Charles and Damaris.
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The party did have the opportunity to get up 'close and personal' with the No.1 Engine which is currently out of the aircraft undergoing routine maintenance.

Spice Group members inspecting the No1 Engine.
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Meanwhile the engineering work on the No1 engine continued with Roger and Ben getting it ready for re-assembly.

Roger and Ben prepare the No.1 Engine for re-assembly.
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