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 [...]
We have produced an e-booklet on the Hawker Siddeley Trident, entitled Tridents 2010. This is a global round-up of the type, listing all known locations of preserved and stored Tridents, including all those in the UK, China and Cyprus. The booklet is fully illustrated with colour pictures of the remaining examples, as well as a [...]
The RAF museum at Cosford have kindly donated a set of aircraft steps to our project which can be used to enter and exit the aircraft when it is open to the public. Cosford was formerly the home of the only preserved Trident 1C, G-ARPH. The nose of this aircraft is now at the National [...]
Members of the Save The Trident team visited Belfast International on Thursday 20 May to strip useful parts from Trident 2E G-AVFE, which is owned by the airport fire service there. Tony Jarrett and Neil Lomax took a van, kindly supplied half-price by Intack, across to Belfast on a donated ferry crossing with Stena Line [...]
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 [...]
Neil Lomax’s talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society covered the Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident aircraft, his work on preserving G-AWZK at Manchester, and introduced the campaign to save G-ARPO. The talk was enjoyed by all, and to top it off the organisation donated money from a raffle held at the event to our project, which [...]
The Save The Trident project will feature on the breakfast show of BBC 5live radio station on the morning of Sunday 7 March. Tune in to hear exclusive interviews with our own Matt Falcus, and Chris Brown of the International Fire Training Centre. Neil Lomax may also feature on the show. The interview will take [...]
Tony, Jill and I had a great day at Belfast International on Friday 5th Feb courtesy of the Belfast International Fire & Rescue team. These guys treated us incredibly well, spending time shuttling us around from terminal to fire station, to Trident and back again. They really were friendly and helpful, so a big thank [...]
Ideal World Shopping has donated a number of ladders to the project which will be shipped to the North East Aircraft Museum to enable a lot of work to be undertaken on G-ARPO when she arrives. This is an incredibly generous offer, so thank you! Ideal World is a fantastic online and TV shopping company [...]
We have had some great news today from the Belfast International Fire Service. In a corner of Belfast International Airport is the complete Trident 2E G-AVFE, which has been used by the service for non-destructive training. The fire service has kindly allowed us to use this Trident as a parts source for our restoration of [...]
