Cobham Hall Open Day 1st April 2005

The wreckage outside to the right of the Skyraider came from LS931 and the wreckage to the left of the Skyraider is made up from the remains of the Albacore that was not used/used as a pattern in the rebuild of ‘N4389’ and various other odds and sods. The intention with the Barra is to lay out the wreckage to see what is present/missing, what can be used or used as a pattern.

Barracuda

I was talking to the Curator of Aircraft at the recent Cobham Hall open day and he mentioned an intention at some stage to layout the various Barracuda remains against the outline of a complete airframe to indicate what proportion is available. I don’t know if this is an assessment exercise or a planned display pending further restoration. While I was there, I noted two centre sections in the hangar. Outside, stored in two distinctly separate caches either side of the ex Helston Skyraider were other Barracuda remains from two airframes including substantial fuselage elements and wings. The one set of wings (at least) came from a machine in the PM*** serial range. The full serial was very clearly visible on the inside of wing root but I can’t recall it – I’ll look on my shots to see if I captured it.

Stringbag – it is a Supermarine 510: the Attacker is on display in the museum in FAA colours.

Ooops. I meant to type 510!
Sorry for the confusion guys.

Forgot to mention that following some repairs the Sopwith Triplane will return to the main exhibition hall to replace N500, the flying Triplane replica which departed from FAAM today for its usual summer season of show dates

The centre section from DP872 has been on the yellow stand for many years, the ‘other’ centre section is from an unknown aircraft. The next open day is on Sunday 24th July from 1200 to 1600

Stringbag – it is a Supermarine 510: the Attacker is on display in the museum in FAA colours.
Stuart – the wreckage is from a Barracuda. Since I saw it last year it appears to have been put on a wheeled yellow trolley (see Michel Lemieuxs picture), but otherwise it looks to be in exactly the same place. There is the restored nose of DP872 on display in the museum, and W&R19 says that the rest is in store: this it the rest.

Flood

Barracuda….

This is what they show in store

However, the opening below the wing on both side is consistent with the windows below a Barra wing root.

I’ll try to answer my own question, is it the fuselage of the Barracuda? The high wing and undercarriage position looks right for this type. I thought this was under restoration at the moment rather than in store. Anybody know any details? Anybody wish to point out that this isn’t, in fact, the Barracuda but something completely different!

Thanks
Stuart

Interesting photos, could anybody tell me what the pieces in photo 1 of batch 1 are from? Don’t recognise them. Must make a point of going to the FAAM on a day that Cobham Hall is open.

Thanks
Stuart

I believe it is the only Attacker.
The FAAM also have the sole surviving Hawker P.1052 left in existance (3rd row, extreme left of spey111’s first post).
Hopefully one day there will be enough time, space and money to put the aircraft back together.

I take it that was the only Supermarine 510. :confused:

Great pics SPEY111

is this an Attacker ?

Its the Supermarine 510, based on an Attacker but with swept wings.

Flood

Hadn’t heard when it was going to open, should have known better of course.

What is the dismantled airframe in picture 8 of the first batch, please?

In May last year it was:

Bits and pieces – a Venom boom, Sea Hawk tail (from WF219, apparently), the wings from the P1051…

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=26259
The tail and rear fuselage are all that is left of WF219.

Flood

Great pics SPEY111

is this an Attacker ?

Ah Papa lima, another trip! 🙂 Wil you bring a lot of pics and maybe a few unidentified planes? 😉

It’s a great review Spey! A nice selection of pics.

Thanks,

Stieglitz

Thank you, dhfan, I really must start organising a trip for myself to all these southern sites, possibly in June or July, anyone willing to be a guide, please PM me!

With the assistance of low cunning (checking the file name), Google and Damien’s site, it appears to be the tail only of Sea Hawk WF219. No idea what the rest of the bits are. 🙂

What is the dismantled airframe in picture 8 of the first batch, please?

Thanks anyway Spey111
Exactly the same reason why I never got a photo of the Corsair either !

TMN

There have been a few moves round since I was there last year. I went to the open day on 29th May last year. The Triplane has moved over from the museum. The Wessex XP142 Humphrey has been swapped for the Wasp XS527 between the store and the museum.

I haven’t any pictures of the museums Corsair as that was still in the restoration area at the museum very cluttered behind glass so sorry no picture.