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Just returned from working at Glastonbury and wondered if anyone could tell me what these aircraft parts were fitted to?. The whirlwind helicopter was still there but looking in a lot sorrier state minus it`s rotor,enough to make you weep.

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By: Creaking Door - 28th June 2010 at 23:40

I reckon the double engine pod is ex-VC10…

That was my other thought too but I had a look at the Bruntingthorpe VC10 scrapping thread and couldn’t see any obvious similarity.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 28th June 2010 at 22:42

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I agree with pagen01, those could be ex-DC6 intakes. They are too big for Dak but look like some DC6 ones I used to have.

I remember the carb intake assemblies were a large and very complex affair with a cast inlet ring. These could well be the oil cooler intakes from underneath the engine.

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By: ian_ - 28th June 2010 at 22:36

Could well be Pagen, I’ve run out of photo room to post a more detailed pictures unfortunately.

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By: pagen01 - 28th June 2010 at 21:56

The intakes look like oil cooler or carb intakes for large radial engines

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By: ian_ - 28th June 2010 at 21:53

Thanks Lee, I was thinking of something that went the other way round.

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By: Lee Howard - 28th June 2010 at 21:48

Green section in the last pic is the rear part of that transmission deck/rear panels from a Gazelle AH.1.

EDIT – and the fuselage of one too! (previous set).

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By: ian_ - 28th June 2010 at 21:44

A couple of intakes and composite bit..

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By: ian_ - 28th June 2010 at 21:40

Recovering from an atypically scorching weekend myself. Lots of bits to identify and a bit of minor souveniring. The Andover was part of air crash installation, with suitably weathered flight attendents. There was also a Gazelle pod on stilts.

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By: zoot horn rollo - 28th June 2010 at 21:15

Isn’t the Andover XS641?

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By: Arabella-Cox - 28th June 2010 at 20:55

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Agreed, CD, could well be Alvis Leonides Major from a Whirlwind.
Not used to seeing one in anything other than all black colour scheme but that double exhaust pipe looks a bit familiar.

I reckon the double engine pod is ex-VC10, either from a scrapper or a NOS ex-stores item.

The scrappies at the yard where the fus is stored have done a lot of aircraft scrapping (I got the cockpit of Twin Pin G-AYFA from there) so, what with some VC10’s getting the chop it’s possible the engine pod is from an aircraft they have processed.

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By: Creaking Door - 28th June 2010 at 20:39

The engine looks like a helicopter powerplant. Don’t recognise the type but could be Russian.

Agree helicopter; could it be Alvis Leonides?

Twin engines Sea Vixen?

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By: Arabella-Cox - 28th June 2010 at 20:08

Aircraft bits i/d

The fuselage is Andover and is an annual participant in the Glasto fun. It normally lives at a scrapyard at Sandbach, in Cheshire. Wreck and Relics will have the serial.

It looks like it has had a “repaint” since last year’s appearance.

The fabric surfaces on the wall are Dak/C-47 elevators.

The engine looks like a helicopter powerplant. Don’t recognise the type but could be Russian. Prop is modern – looks like a wheels-up landing casualty.

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By: ThreeSpool - 28th June 2010 at 19:18

The fuselage in the first shot has to be a HS.748, no idea to anything else 😮

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