Sadly you can't now, since this was it's last run before being retired. It would take a lot of money to get it running again, including fitting a lot of new safety equipment that is now needed.
What he means is not this type of slam door train.this type had to collect the power from over head. as opposed to our old slamdoors this side of the thames that (as they still do now) collect from the 3rr rail. they do look simelar tough
Nice long runway at EMA too, but yes, was a little late, although as Cat10980 said, within the touch down zone. Did require heavy braking and full reverse thrust and we missed the turn off most planes (including most of the heavies on freight) use, but still made the last but one before the end of the runway.
It was at the time owned and operated by First Great Eastern, and used for occasional special workings. They no longer operate the trains in that area, and it's passed to the national collection and is at their Locomotion Museum at Shildon. Sadly it now lacks 2 essential and expensive pieces of safety equipment to run on the mainline, so the chances of it running again are slim, although not without some hope. This was infact the second to last time it ran, due to failing before the next outing.
You can set it in the "equipment failures" options. There are seperate setting for the nose, left and right gear, and they can be set to fail up for down.
Yes, it's quite impressive. I've only done 737s, but my parents had been on a 747-400 a few months before this, and they were suprised at the difference in acceleration. On this flight we were lightly loaded though, probably not even 1/4 full, and wouldn't have been carrying that much fuel (it's only around 40mins flight, and we had a good tail wind), wheras they were well loaded and fueled for Heathrow to San Fransisco and vice versa on the return.
Some acceleration in those 737-500's. I've flown on A320's, 757, 767, and 737-800/300's. But 737-500's takeoff thrust is comparable to a sports car, very nice but not for those scared of flying.
It's nearly 60 years old, being introduced in 1949, and is in preservation, but has been used on special runs on the mainline. On this occasion it was running from Liverpool St to Shenfield, the route that this type of train originally ran. The service was open to all passengers, and many commented how luxury it was compared to the "modern" (1980s) trains used on the line today.
The mark on the the window is just blue paint, it's probably been since it was in British Midland colours, since the only blue on BMI Baby is the BMI and ".com" part of the lettering, but they will be stickers, not painted on. The marks on the wing were just oil and other dirt, nothing to worry about. The plane is early 90's though, so getting on a bit, and Baby like all lowcosts work them hard (especially the 500s which are mostly on UK domestic work).
Mate what are the chances of this- Ive flew to edinbugh today, and came home on THIS EXACT AIRCRAFT!!!! I was sat at the over-wing exit so about 4 rows in front of this shot.
That was a bit fast actually... The hard landing was because he caught a cross wind just before touch down. Watch the planes shadow on the ground, you can see the starboard wing roll up, then the pilot over corrected and bump.
