Archive for November 2009

HSS Hire to the Rescue

Nov 27th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Project News

HSS Hire have agreed to help us out with tool hire when it comes to dismantling G-ARPO. When the time comes to take the Trident apart, we’ll need to cut the wings, horizontal stabiliser, and the tail fin off, and this needs to be done with all manner of generators, scaffolding and cutting equipment. Therefore [...]



Paintings of Trident G-ARPO

Nov 19th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Other News

Michel Schou is a fantastic aviation artist who creates wonderful paintings of classic aircraft and airlines from days gone by, as well as some modern ones. He has been very kind to our project and is creating a set of paintings of Trident G-ARPO in scenes from its past. These paintings will be used to [...]



Save The Trident Facebook Group

Nov 6th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Other News

If any of you are members of Facebook, we’ve set up a new group on there for the Save The Trident project to save G-ARPO. Please join the group, which has discussions, photos, news, links etc. We’d love you to share your stories, memories, or hopes for the project. The group can be found on [...]



Spares from the De Havilland Museum

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By admin | Category: Project News

Some great news for the G-ARPO project came recently when the De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre (Mosquito Museum) at London Colney agreed to donate all of their spare Trident parts to us which will come in very useful for restoration. If you haven’t been, the De Havilland museum has finished an excellent preservation of the [...]