Since i started an Auster restoration i was amased how easy it has been since the entire original factory drawings have been preserved in the Leicester Council archives and i have managed to fabricate all of the missing original fittings.
Does anyone know if any rare types of aircraft, factory drawings survive in detail as it would be nice to start looking at future projects….. Supermarine Walrus would be a nice one?
Doesn’t DeHavilland have an archive for drawings?
By: 12jaguar - 25th February 2009 at 13:01
We have a number of Stirling/Shorts standard drawings for the cockpit area which is fortunate considering that’s where we’re concentrating our effort. Rumours of Tea chests full of drawings deposited at Duxford/RAFM have all sadly proved to be just that:(
John
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th February 2009 at 11:59
I know where all the original Airborne Forces Experimental Establishemnt (AFEE) drawings, on tracing paper and linen, for the rotor system and supporting mast for Hafner Rotabuggy are kept.
However, I would love to know if ML aviation’s drawings still survived as one of its early subsiduaries (R Malcom Ltd) produced the drawings for the Rotabuggy’s wooden fuselage and tail. I have the drawing numbers but not the drawings.
By: Mark V - 25th February 2009 at 10:17
Does anyone know if any rare types of aircraft, factory drawings survive in detail as it would be nice to start looking at future projects….. Supermarine Walrus would be a nice one?
Most of the Walrus draings are deposited on microfilm at the RAF Museum. They are very interesting and of really high quality being pre-war, its fascinating to look through them. Most of the US aircraft manufacturers deposited drawings with the Smithsonian.
Doesn’t DeHaviland have an archive for drawings?
Yes – de Haviland Support at Duxford
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February 25, 2009 at 9:55 am