It was 9th January 1962 that John Cunningham captained the first ever Trident flight in G-ARPA at Hatfield. That momentous day saw the start of a special aircraft that went on to revolutionise autoland technology, the three rear mounted engine design, and became one of the fastest subsonic airliners ever produced. With only a handful [...]

Rik Taylor took this video of G-ARPO arriving at the North East Aircraft Museum in Sunderland on 31st July. You can see how delicate the operation was, and how we had to get the landing gear lowered and wheels reattached before it could sit safely on its own. Click the link below to view the [...]

Today there was a sight not seen for a long time… a Hawker Siddeley Trident flew again. OK, admittedly it wasn’t under its own power, and it certainly wasn’t operating the British Airways Shuttle flight into Heathrow, but Trident 1C G-ARPO lifted off the ground with the aid of two cranes from MSD as we [...]

Day 5 came and went today. The team assembled at G-ARPO again for another day of cutting, and we were joined again by yesterday’s contractor, and another person from MSD Cranes to help us. They brought an impressive crane with them! The day got off to a great start, with the crane attached to the [...]

Flight magazine has run a small feature on our project in a recent June 2010 issue, showing a picture of the team when they began working on G-ARPO recently. It also encourages people to donate. Thanks very much to Max Kingsley-Jones for this, and Flight magazine.

Spacewise have kindly agreed to help us out with a container which we can use to store parts in until they are used on our aircraft. We will be bringing many parts back to Sunderland from Belfast, and these will need long term storage until we are ready to fit them into G-ARPO during its [...]

St. George Hotel at Durham Tees Valley Airport have come to the rescue of Tony and Neil by offering free accommodation for the night whilst up in the area in May. Following an arduous journey across to Belfast and back, via Sunderland to drop off parts into storage at the North East Aircraft Museum, the [...]

Our return trip to Belfast has been scheduled for mid-May to pick up parts from the Trident 2E G-AVFE there. We have had a generous offer from Intack Self Drive in Blackburn for half-price hire of a Luton van over the four days we’ll need it. Tony and Neil will take the van over to [...]

HSS Tool Hire have agreed to sponsor us again by putting Neil Lomax, a member of the Save The Trident team, through an abbrasive wheel course in April. Neil will be cutting the Trident prior to the transporting of the aircraft and it is the stipulation today with Health and Safety rules that this course [...]

On Thursday 11 March, Neil Lomax (team member, and Trident expert) will be doing a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society at the Community Learning Centre, BA Waterside. The talk will be on the Trident – From Then to Now, and will go into details about his work on G-AWZK at Manchester, and his hopes [...]