[simpits-tech] flight yoke dimensions...

[Roy Coates]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:

> > Incidentally.. the HS125 bits I used in my last pit build came from VR-BMB
> > which has an interesting history.
> >
> > At one point it flew as G-AYLI for Martin Baker, and the story goes that
> > later as VR-BMB it was owned by Osama Bin Laden's father and was seized
> > and impounded at Stansted in the UK before being scrapped.
> >
> Was it siezed prior to 9/11?  If so, any idea why?

I know nothing - yet.

But iirc Bin Laden senior was killed trying to land a Beechcraft and I
reckon that was _before_ VR-BMB was built !  So... digging required.


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Roy Coates.

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