Blackburn Buccaneer Society

Good progress was made yesterday, ( Saturday 4 August 2007 ), with Nige G, Stuart, Keith, Dan Knight and Dave Moore in attendance, the work load broke down like thus:

Keith & Dan - Service weapons loading unit, service both 10 ton jacks, remove panels, retaining nuts and bolts from port flap in readiness for removal.

Dave Moore - Loom identification in port wheel bay and removal of loom retaining clamps.

Stuart - Clean and polished canopy and blast screen, in fact, once Stu had finished, I had never seen a blast screen looking so clean. Removal of masking tape from starboard nose area.

Nige G- Re-attached starboard flap actuator, repainted and fitted starboard D panel, reconnected all hydraulic pipes in the airbrake area, cleaned and lubed tailplane pivot bearings, removed tailplane loom for remanufacture.

Lastly, even though the starboard centre engine access door is damaged, we managed to put it back on, this leaves just the tailplane to put back on, this should have been done yesterday, but the telehandler never showed up, so that scuppered that job for now.

Please see Gallery 4 for the pictures.