Does anybody out there know the tyre size for the Bristol Beaufort. Main wheel and tail wheel. I have an aircraft wheel that is supposed to have come from a Beaufort that was recovered from the beach at Donna Nook many years ago. The tyre size is 29×8 .00. Given the number of aircraft both allied and axis that crashed in that area in WW2 it could have come off anything WW2 or even post war
By: airfield - 9th June 2023 at 21:03
Nope
You obviously dont read Flypast, Three Lightnings at the last count. Javelin and if its still there a Vampire T11
By: cabbage - 9th June 2023 at 12:07
You’ll have a hell of a job. As far as I’m aware, the only airframe at Binbrook is a E.E. (BAC) Lightning.
By: airfield - 8th June 2023 at 22:38
I hope to get up to Binbrook next week, there is a Javelin there, If I can get access it will be easier to compare rather than rely on a photo but comparing both photos it certainly looks to be the best contender
By: radarsdesk - 8th June 2023 at 13:17
Managed to find another Dunlop brochure which does have Javelin having nose tyre size of 29×8.00-16 so has probably narrowed it down a bit more with the photo of the landing gear/wheel above.
By: dhfan - 8th June 2023 at 09:16
It seems to be of bolted-up construction with separate wheel centre and rim.
Was that common in the 50s or does that narrow it down a bit?
By: airfield - 7th June 2023 at 22:25
Also looks like the nose wheel of a Javelin as this photo shows and a Javelin did crash into the sea off Skegness,not that far way
By: dhfan - 7th June 2023 at 16:01
As radarsdesk said, “could also fit others”.
By: Aerotony - 7th June 2023 at 11:49
The wheel does not match the picture of a Swift wheel on this site.
https://www.herefordvoice.co.uk/forums/topic/2404-restoration-photos-of…
By: airfield - 6th June 2023 at 21:49
Supermarine Swift going by the chart supplied by radarsdeck
By: airfield - 6th June 2023 at 21:47
Apologies the tyre size is 29 x 8.00-15
By: airfield - 5th June 2023 at 21:36
I think I have figured it out
By: airfield - 5th June 2023 at 21:20
I have always been of the opinion that it is post war but the person who gave it to me was adamant it was from a Beaufort. I have no idea why he thought that though. I do a photo but have no idea how to post it
By: dhfan - 5th June 2023 at 11:37
So definitely deck/hard runway type and not grass so it seems to me pretty certainly post-war jet, rather than WWII piston.
Lightning wasn’t a serious suggestion, more an indication of the sort of wheel and tyre.
By: radarsdesk - 5th June 2023 at 11:14
No info on sizes for Lightning tyres, but a Dunlop Aviation Equipment (not dated but 1950s) brochure has that size for Supermarine 535 & Swift, could also fit others.
By: Dave Hadfield - 4th June 2023 at 16:35
Lysander?
But the rim should be a giveway.
Picture?
By: Aerotony - 4th June 2023 at 08:36
Airfield, you say that you have a “wheel” rather than just the tyre. A picture of the wheel would help us identify it.
By: dhfan - 4th June 2023 at 00:36
A big wheel yes, but also extremely narrow I would have thought.
I have absolutely no idea of the Lightning’s tyre size but that sounds like that sort of ratio rather than an aircraft expected to use grass runways.
By: Arabella-Cox - 3rd June 2023 at 22:35
That sounds like a big wheel?
The Beaufort mainwheel was Dunlop AH2166 and the tailwheel AH2038.
The tyres were 14in x 14in (main) and 9.00in x 5 3/4in (tail). That last fraction may be a bit out as I was reading from a very poor photo.
On the tyres you’d expect to see markings I.W.11, I.W.12, I.W.14 or I.W.16 on the main and W.N.11, W.N.14 or W.N.30 TC on the tail.
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