Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: de Havilland Comet at ORD? Message-ID: <683@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 11:34:17 EST Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.683 Posted: Mon Oct 28 11:34:17 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:48:55 EST References: <338@ektools.UUCP> <33300001@hpfcmp.UUCP> <2987015c.1de6@apollo.uucp> <1305@poseidon.UUCP> <7234@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 14 There is a Comet at London Gatwick near the usual taxiway into the new terminal. The aircraft is white, labelled "TRAINING" in large letters and has the outer 50% of each wing removed. In the October "Airport" (a Heathrow/Gatwick freebie - "The World's First Pre-Flight Magazine" - it says so on the cover) it is noted that a pair of kestrels and their five young lived in the wing root of this aircraft for a while, but have now departed, "...presumably heading for higher horizons". The Comet is unlikely to follow. Bob Langridge ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl (UUCP) Computer Graphics Laboratory rl@ucsf-cgl (ARPA) University of California +1 415 666 2630 San Francisco CA 94143 +1 415 666 1540