Hendon 7/2/02. Musings, food and Halifax

Originally posted by anneorac
Just to answer Mk.12s’ point it’s PX-32, basically NATO issue Waxall.

Anne

or should that be Waxoll…I can never remember!:confused:

Methinks ‘Waxoyl” ?

Moggy

Originally posted by shorts
All the stuff nicked from Cosford looks good.Would look better back up north.

Shorts:( 🙁

Well done shorts that has needed to be said for a long time, I wonder how many more are in agrement with that statement

Originally posted by shorts
All the stuff nicked from Cosford looks good.Would look better back up north.

Shorts:( 🙁

Originally posted by BlueRobin
Spotted this interesting gadget. No points for guessing on which aircraft it is located. What is it and how does one operate it?

It’s a Mk.IX Bombsight. Basically you set up the speed and drift until the target travels down the wires when you look through the funny bit on the vertical pole, and then you press the button when they get to a certain point. Not sure of the exact method, as you probably gathered 😉

Very fine evocative pictures 🙂

Many years ago flash (and tripods?) was not permitted. How is the situation now?

Best ergardds – Best earguards? – Best regards!
atc pal

Just to answer Mk.12s’ point it’s PX-32, basically NATO issue Waxall.

Anne

or should that be Waxoll…I can never remember!:confused:

All the stuff nicked from Cosford looks good.Would look better back up north.

Shorts:( 🙁

At the end of the day and against a fading blue sky, the setting Sun painted passing, majestic Cumulus clouds blowing away the gloomy, sodden storm; indeed like the light and calm following those dark, sully wars. We stopped there to admire, reflect and remember. Those brave men and women, our fellow aviators who went before us. Then we set off back once more along the congested motorways, back into the here and now.

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Spotted this interesting gadget. No points for guessing on which aircraft it is located. What is it and how does one operate it?

Unfortunately not too many photos from the main and BoB halls due to low light levels. Could be overcome by flash (but that as always is a poor substitute for colour temp of ambient lighting – wysiwyg blah blah etc). Tripod would be useful but cumbersome.
Here’s a photo taken using a handy stair rail and 1.5 sec exposure.

However musn’t grumble; have never seen a 87, 88, 109, 110 and 111 in the same place before!

Across the way, the relocated, reconstructed Grahame-White factory adds an historical period building to the site. Contained within are early examples of aeroplanes, half of which I didn;t know about let alone have seen in person. Educational. Also another building with natural light so some good pictures are possible. If they open up the hangar doors in Summer, I dare say a few could be rolled out adding to the quality of the day out.

..also good uses of dummies to emphasis some action to the display aircraft. The observer in the back was our CFI in a former life.

I imagined him saying something like

“Look, Bismarck 10 o’clock low!”

The new hall features some interesting aircraft. A select selection not exactly following one theme. In any case, a good use of natural light and the ability to view the aircraft from three floors. Plenty of touch panel screens adorn the first floor allowing visitors to view information on the aircraft displayed and watch video footage. Just wish the speakers had more oompf so engine sounds could be recreated better.

My god I look ugly! Even the woman in the stripy top was smiling for the camera.

First time visit at Hendon for me…

Started by gaping at this awesome large plastic Spit (“plaspit”?) and we all resolved to get a wall big enough to do this at home

I don’t know anything about such things, but whatever has been slapped all over the RAFM’s Lanc’s engines is also red, as I got to see one of her Merlins in close up some years ago, when they had a wing off her. The engine- minus pretty much all it’s ancilliaries and even exhaust stubs- was covered by a red stuff not unlike what’s on the Halifax in colour, and it was all drips and runs- no finesse there!

Stating the obvious but….

The ‘red’ interior is the stock military preservative applied post recovery.

Is it PX-3 or was that for inhibiting engines?

mark

Correction

The green “thingy” is actually the mounting for the
compass and which is fitted beneath the instrument
panel. So they are really doing something about the
interior. I wonder what further plans they
have. But after having a newly restored nose turret
a restored throttle box and a newly restored Merlin
engine on an otherwise untouched airframe we now
have a newly restored and bright green compass
mounting shelf in a mostly red interior.

Cees

Moggy,

Many thanks for the cockpit photo’s. They answered some
questions I had, as I am working on recreating a pilot seat
for my cockpit section. Seems that some work is being done
on the interior looking at the shiny green “thingy” in the seat.

Cheers

Cees

Thanks Moggy

Excellent pics of the Halifax Thanks very Much Moggy!
Now wheres that bowl..