Hawker Hart restoration projects

Australian Demon

Can’t upload images from phone as they are too large but a virtual Hawker Australian Demon is coming together in Solidworks, 2,000 odd drawing files after 5 years of forensic reconstruction,this to support an Aust Demon Trainer project which is starting as a bag of sun bleached bones. Will no doubt FB once there is bikini model material to post into that goldfish bowl. For the serious punter here with leather elbow patches on a houndstooth jacket, always happy to share details on octagonal spars, DTD54a and whether single gun variants had assymetric fairing. Jack’s Demon is in Caboolture, I am in Melbourne, so that’s two Demons in Oz, and it will be good to see some of these flying in the Antipodes, as Shuttleworth doesn’t have a good range of crispy, chilled beers.

Thanks for that Andy. I was at Vintage Wings in September for the B of B commemoration but I didn’t notice it in their hangar

Bill

de Havilland Canada test pilot, George Neil was working on a Fury.
This project has been taken over by Vintage wings of Canada.

Andy

Are there any active Hawker Biplane restoration projects? I believe there was an Audax project in the works a while back.

Don was very generous with his time when I visited to look over his collection a couple of years back.

It is indeed.
Podcast by Dave Homewood with Jim Mungall and Don Subritzky
http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2012/04/episode-12-rnzaf-hawker-hinds-and-more/

My Photos

I had a couple of these photos mis-labelled as Harts previously.

You can find more by searching at Wings Over NZ – the Subritzkys organise a Forum Meet there occasionally.

Is it not one of Don Subritzky’s RNZAF Hawker Hinds?