Anything from ARCO…

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If the nose is a write off as you say then maybe this will lead to the installation of the mk 1 nose section that was mentioned on a earlier post??
Good luck Arco… Hope you guys work miracles and the blenheim is back flying next summer!

The lataest news from The Blenheim Society.

At approximately 18:30 hours on Monday 18th August, the Bristol Blenheim suffered a landing accident at Duxford. Thankfully all on board were uninjured, but the aircraft sustained quite severe damage. Her undercarraige is severely damaged, together with irreparable damage to her nose. Both engines have been stressed, their propellers bent and the starboard engine has beendislodged from its mountings. Repairs will be costly both in terms of time and money. Some of the funding will come from her insurance – the rest must be raised. At this time, supporting the Grand Flying Draw is an ideal way to lend your support, but any donation would be most welcome and earmarked for any repair costs the aircraft may require. Of course this is very early days as the Blenheim will be subject to close inspection in the coming weeks before the full extent of damage can be established. Only then can costs in time and money be weighed up before further decisions can be made.

Thanks for the advice Geoff, lets see if it works….

The picture that Robbo has posted of the IWM airframe is almost the same state as the airframe currently looks. They have started more work on the mid turret now.

Thanks for the update Cas. I’ll be getting my raffle tickets at the weekend as I’m sure your chaps will be about at Duxford.

More importantly – Happy Birthday!!

with regards to ARCO decision.

The team are still in the process of examination of the airframe so that a realistic time scale can be given,
many factors have to be taken into account such as prop and engine examination, source of spares , financial restraints ect..

the team ask you to please be patient and and promise that as soon as a decision is made it will be posted here

you can help support the blenheim by joining the blenheim society and then receive regular news updates

or if you see the sales team at the shows then buy a raffle ticket or two

thanks for your support..

To reduce the ‘size’ of an image in kb, right click on the image & selct ‘edit’. Click on ‘image’ and then ‘stretch/skew’. To reduce the size of an image, you will need to enter a number below 100 in the boxes ‘Horizontal’ & ‘verticle’ in the ‘stretch’ box. What number you enter depends on how big your original image was, it’s really a matter for trial & error, but you will need to get it below 100KB. Once you’ve entered the same number in the two boxes click ‘OK’ and then save the image as a jpeg. To find the size of the new image, hover your ^ over the image for a couple of seconds. If it’s the wrong size, delete it & try a higher or lower number in the two boxes, according to whether it’s too big or too small, but remember to always enter the same number in the two boxes, otherwise the image will distort.

Well, that’s how I do it….

Geoff.

I was at Duxford today and the Blenham was covered up, engines and wings removed. A very sad sight.

On a more positive note, the airframe that is being restored for the IWM, is looking good. I will try to post some pictures, if I can work out how to reduce the file size!

Another good point was that Carolyn Grace was running up ML407 today, She can’t be too far off being back in the air.