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User currently offlineUnited727 From United States of America, joined Nov 2010, 380 posts, RR: 1
Posted (6 months 2 weeks 2 days ago) and read 1299 times:

Any RR Spey MX's out here in a.net land? Wondering how fussy these little devils are and what it would take to inspect and power up an original engine? Strictly for display, no intention for flight.


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User currently offlineViscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21488 posts, RR: 24
Reply 1, posted (6 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

Re the thread subject, the Spey is a turbofan, not a turbojet.

User currently onlineN243NW From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1492 posts, RR: 21
Reply 2, posted (6 months 2 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 1300 times:

This guy is pretty knowledgeable and has some good videos featuring the Spey:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ/videos?query=spey


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User currently offlinemffoda From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 908 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (6 months 1 week 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

It would be more helpful if you were more specific on which Spey series you are referring to? Military or Civilian? A/C type etc...


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User currently offlineFabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 1111 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (6 months 1 week 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

I will hazard a guess that this has something to do with the BAC1-11 discussed next door.


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User currently offlinemffoda From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 908 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (6 months 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

Quoting United727 (Thread starter):
Any RR Spey MX's out here in a.net land? Wondering how fussy these little devils are and what it would take to inspect and power up an original engine? Strictly for display, no intention for flight.

You could probably contact http://www.dallasairmotive.com/ and get some answers.

I believe they still do Spey's? They overhauled a couple of 555-15's for me, although that was 12-14 years ago.  


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User currently offlinetb727 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1375 posts, RR: 4
Reply 6, posted (6 months 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

How simliar are the Spey's on the BAC to the G-II and G-III Spey's? There are a lot of those still flying so I would imagine there is still some support in some way or another.


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User currently offlineMHG From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 670 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (6 months 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

Quoting United727 (Thread starter):
Any RR Spey MX's out here in a.net land? Wondering how fussy these little devils are and what it would take to inspect and power up an original engine? Strictly for display, no intention for flight.

Well, I´m not involved in MX ...
But I know that in South Africa there´s still at least one Blackburn Buccaneer airworthy (and active) which has the military Spey engines. The Buccaneer is operated by "Thunder City" and it has a civilian registration.
If your bank account allows you can get a ride on it ...

Might be a good idea to contact them to get more detailed infos regarding maintenance of the Spey´s.


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User currently offlineZKEYE From New Zealand, joined May 2005, 234 posts, RR: 2
Reply 8, posted (6 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

Quoting MHG (Reply 7):
But I know that in South Africa there´s still at least one Blackburn Buccaneer airworthy (and active)

Unfortunately Thunder City closed down in late 2010.


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User currently offlineSpacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2738 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (6 months 1 week 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1300 times:

Quoting ZKEYE (Reply 8):
Unfortunately Thunder City closed down in late 2010.

Thunder city or not, the Bucc was flying as recently as last week.


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