Thread: Who else has ordered a limited edition?

Originally Posted by Avion8

Considering it was ordered on January 12th it seems to have taken for ever. The Asian King is just passing Gran Canaria & stopping at a few places enroute to Fremantle. It will be a very special day indeed.

Cheers Nigel

We tracked ours too. I took prints of the progress of the ship during the voyage, I also googled the name of the ship, where details of it were discovered,.....& I took prints of that too!
Gotta be crazy, Pickles.

I've always had a love of ships having grown up on the coast, & nearly went to engineering school in Liverpool, but Derby won out, so aviation for 38 years. Just a little concerned with these car carriers after the Hoegh Osaka incident So one voyage I will be following closely. Even cleaned out the space in the shed, swept, no spiders, crickets or mice!

My Grandad was a "lagger" on the docks, brought up in Bootle, I too went the aviation way and ended up in the RAF as a propulsion tech! Joined when the old school jets were just being phased out, worked in Hunters, Buccaneers, Tri-stars, Tornados and Hawks. Now sell forklifts in Brisbane, how life changes!

We sat up until 3am watching the vessel unload in Port Melb to see Mrs Tombies new toy unloaded

Helps I have an account with a global vessel tracking company (I host the regions Antenna from my house) and was tracking it's every move with notifications to my phone!

Originally Posted by Is Vic There

My Grandad was a "lagger" on the docks, brought up in Bootle, I too went the aviation way and ended up in the RAF as a propulsion tech! Joined when the old school jets were just being phased out, worked in Hunters, Buccaneers, Tri-stars, Tornados and Hawks. Now sell forklifts in Brisbane, how life changes!

Hi Vic, I worked new Buccaneers at Holme Upon Spalding Moor & Phantom F4K's post major service - I was the RR FSR at Hawker Siddeley. Then Nimrods at Kinloss, then Buccaneers 15/16 Sqns, Hawker Hunters at Laarbruck, & Phantoms 19/92 Sqns at Wildenwrath, based out of Bruggen. Then AM-X in Brazil, then got my 2nd career for 20 years with P&W worked most from PT6A-20 through PW4098, and pretty well all between including R2000 with the RAAF & JT3D's! Amazingly I can still hear

Originally Posted by Tombie

We sat up until 3am watching the vessel unload in Port Melb to see Mrs Tombies new toy unloaded

Helps I have an account with a global vessel tracking company (I host the regions Antenna from my house) and was tracking it's every move with notifications to my phone!

Hi Tombie, I'm as bad as you & use VesselFinder https://www.vesselfinder.com they have a free AIS Ship Tracking system & the Asian King is just approaching the coast of Mauritania. Looks like a busy seaway! I probably won't get up at 3am, but will definitely be at the showroom the day the vehicle turns up in it's dirty state!

Originally Posted by Avion8

Hi Vic, I worked new Buccaneers at Holme Upon Spalding Moor & Phantom F4K's post major service - I was the RR FSR at Hawker Siddeley. Then Nimrods at Kinloss, then Buccaneers 15/16 Sqns, Hawker Hunters at Laarbruck, & Phantoms 19/92 Sqns at Wildenwrath, based out of Bruggen. Then AM-X in Brazil, then got my 2nd career for 20 years with P&W worked most from PT6A-20 through PW4098, and pretty well all between including R2000 with the RAAF & JT3D's! Amazingly I can still hear

That explains your user name!

Ex RAF me! But just 'quiet' Hawks at Valley... then noisy RB211's on some civvy Boeing's!

My Dad was at Laarbruck on the Canberra in the 60's however! Sorry, what did you say!

I was at Valley, it was my last station prior to getting out in 1997, was on 74.