Aircraft Engineering Drawings

Kenneth,

Just a quick post to say that contact has been established in Denmark and it looks likely that they may be able to help as you suggested. 🙂

Mike,

I have sent you a PM as suggested and thanks for the offer of assistance.

In a similar vein, I know of a dedicated set of volunteers who’d be delighted if anyone could turn up a set of drawings for a General Aircraft Monospar ST12 – even with a well restored set of parts the challenge of refitting them in a functioning manner is enormous!

Progress is being made thanks to their ingenuity and some photographic input from a co-operative museum curator in Denmark!! 🙂

PM please with their contact details as we may have some stuff in archive not sure how detailed or how usefull.

Mike E:cool:

Kenneth,

Many thanks for agreeing to look for the Monospar items – there’s no rush but any input would be appreciated. 🙂

I don’t believe that they have been in touch with the other organisation that you mentioned but I will make sure that they do so.

The KZ reference is interesting because I remember an ‘invasion of Winthorpe Airfield’ back in the late 1970s / early 1980s :confused: by the KZ Club; a wonderful group of aviation enthusiasts – including at least one pilot who wore a ‘traditional Viking helmet!’

@twinotter: I’ll see what I can dig out of the basement, may not get around to it this side of Christmas but won’t forget…!

For the Monospar team in the meantime:

The museum displaying the aircraft was not involved in the actual restoration of the aircraft. This was done essentially single-handedly by a former employee of Skandinavisk Aero Industri (who built the KZ range of light aircraft), the late Ove Alexandersen, as a member of Dansk Flyvehistorisk Forening (Danish Aviation Historical Society). Have they been in touch with this organisation? I wouldn’t be surprised if they have something relevant in their archives. Contact them at info@danfly.dk

I notice that in Aeroplane monthly that the Sandy Air Corp have recreated a Heinkel 162 and very good it looks too.
My question is did they have the full engineering drawings to build the parts they didn’t have?
I know that the cockpit and some parts were recovered [ amazingly] from the former factory sites that built them.
For example if you look at a surviving aircraft for reference its very difficult to come away with accurate drawings unless you could dismantle it, so in reality if you could take a part off this new recreated aircraft and matched it to an original it probably wouldn’t fit?

Graham

No, they had very few drawings. They had enough structural parts to ‘fill in the gaps’ using photos and museum originals as references.

Dave

Kenneth,

I have now received some feedback from the volunteers at Newark and specific assistance is required in the following areas:

Any internal views of the cockpit, in particular the opening roof

The tail trim wheel – together with details of the other end showing the tail plane jack, although this may not be relevant on a different Mk of Monospar :confused:

Views of the underside of the front fuselage

Details of the cockpit access walkway over the port inner wing

If you were able to put any photographs onto a CD and send them to the following address I would ensure that your postage costs etc were reimbursed in some way.

Monospar Restoration Team
Newark Air Museum
Drove Lane
Winthorpe
Newark
NOTTS
NG24 2NY
UK
Thank you for your potential input to this project!

Kenneth,

The most recent request was for detailed shots of the cabin roof hinges, door hinges and wing folding mechanisms. This involved using a hydraulic platform to access the airframe, which I believe is suspended from the museum roof in Denmark.

I will make the restoration team members aware that you may have some useful photographs and ask for their current requirements.

Thank you for indicating that you may be able to assist! 🙂

Just exactly what are the Monospar restorers looking for? I have a few pictures of the one in Denmark, taken during the restoration process before it was covered in new fabric.

In a similar vein, I know of a dedicated set of volunteers who’d be delighted if anyone could turn up a set of drawings for a General Aircraft Monospar ST12 – even with a well restored set of parts the challenge of refitting them in a functioning manner is enormous!

Progress is being made thanks to their ingenuity and some photographic input from a co-operative museum curator in Denmark!! 🙂

Have a look at the Whirlwind Project to see how things are coming together. But I’m sure some experts will be along to explain how they cope.