English Electric Lightning Rolls Royce Avon Mk209 Jet Engine - Ebay £29,999

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Red998, Apr 22, 2014.

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  1. #1 Red998, Apr 22, 2014
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  2. I wonder if i could get it in an SS frame?
     
    #2 Attila, Apr 22, 2014
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  3. "....we will only ship to certain countries..." wonder whats excluded?
     
    #3 TT600, Apr 22, 2014
  4. apparently you can send it back after 14days. give it a go
     
    #4 finm, Apr 22, 2014
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  5. £30k seems excessive
     
    #5 Mr C, Apr 22, 2014
  6. They have a TSR2 engine currently at £44500 cool as
     
    #6 Baldyboy, Apr 22, 2014
  7. should be ok - it's not rocket science is it?
     
    #7 Chris, Apr 22, 2014
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  8. Just mailed it round the engineering department here in work....let the nerdery commence...
     
    #8 comfysofa, Apr 22, 2014
  9. I've checked with Mrs Rowley... I'm not allowed to buy it :(
     
    #9 pingping010101, Apr 22, 2014
  10. Nope..............jet turbine science........;)
     
    #10 Ghost Rider, Apr 22, 2014
  11. I was looking at my pushbike frame.............I see a lot powered cycles these days........
     
    #11 Ghost Rider, Apr 22, 2014
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  12. what we need here is another Richard Noble nutter/entrepreneur with a passion/vision - sadly a bit thin on the ground these days
     
    #12 Chris, Apr 22, 2014
  13. I'll turn one up in my vice................

    ....although have you ever looked at a Noble car? Much rather have a secondhand TVR (or a TR4) without power steering and IRS.......
     
    #13 Ghost Rider, Apr 22, 2014
  14. Lucky Kaiser was the ozzie bloke that built the merlin bike remember it from I think performance bikes in the 80's
     
    #14 Baldyboy, Apr 22, 2014
  15. Interesting.... I didn't realise it was a RR Avon. I am gas turbine field service engineer and I come across tons of these in the oil & gas industry. Usually driving gas compressors.
     
    #15 Mary Hinge, Apr 22, 2014
  16. Always loved the Lightning personally, I believe they are banned now from flying. Someone in the UK has one but cannot fly! so he pays an ex Lightning pilot to hack up and down the runway with him in it. Each to his own.
     
    #16 Red998, Apr 22, 2014
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  17. wouldn't mind the last one : ) I have seen most of his yes and I think he did pretty well in getting the project off the ground (NPI) at all considering everything he was going through. He gave a lecture at British Aerospace which I went to with my Dad. Not a long time after that it was all reduced to rubble and now it's a massive housing estate.
     
    #17 Chris, Apr 22, 2014
  18. Still in service with the South African Airforce.......
     
    #18 Ghost Rider, Apr 22, 2014
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  19. Yeah, definitely one of my favorites when playing top trumps all those years back.... I went to watch my son wake boarding in Skegness late last year and saw a Lightning parked up in the distance. I wasn't expecting that!
     
    #19 Mary Hinge, Apr 22, 2014

  20. Umm, is that tongue in cheek?

    Do you mean Thundercity?
     
    #20 TT600, Apr 22, 2014
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