Hi guys i’m a newie.
I dont know if you are aware of the Horsa project at Shawbury but when I heard that a few surviving one way ticket army glider jockeys were going to build a full-size replica I almost fell over laughing. When they then said that after finishing the Horsa they would go on to build a Waco and a Hamilcar then I did end up on the floor.
Six months on however, the laugh is definitely on me.
Inside the hangar next to my office is the almost complete fuselage frame of an Airspeed Horsa.
These guys are doing what they promised. Working three days a week on a limited budget and the use of an original horsa fuselage section as a pattern, they hope to have a complete airframe on display at Cosford Museum in 12 to 18 months time.
I take my hat off to them – this is one big aeroplane.
No engine rebuilds to worry about though.
Anyone got any Horsa Bits?
Rotorhead
By: miltransuk - 4th August 2006 at 13:44
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By: Rotorhead - 6th February 2002 at 08:17
RE: Airspeed Horsa Project
Nope. Definitely no plans to build a DFS.
Photo very soon.
By: Ja Worsley - 5th February 2002 at 21:55
RE: Airspeed Horsa Project
Rotor, Don’t suppose you could get any photos?
Do you know if they will also do a DFS-9? (The German glider)
“We who grew up tall and proud, in the shadow of the mushroom cloud.
Convinced our voices can’t be heard, we just want to screem it louder and louder”! – Queen from the song Hammer to Fall
By: SADSACK - 5th February 2002 at 16:46
RE: Airspeed Horsa Project
I would guess it would be of such basic construction that they would take a lot quicker than most restorations.
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February 5, 2002 at 3:22 pm