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Brian

Did the Hercules engines in the Hastings suffer from high oil usage in service?

I’ve also heard that the Bristol Centaurus engine in the Beverly suffered from high oil usage but seem to remember that low oil consumption was a feature of the Bristol sleeve-valve engine designs.

I think the term low may have been a relative term. Low by the standards of other engines of comparable power? Mind you there wasn’t that many other piston engines around of that sort of power to compare with as far as I remember.

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Great stuff Adrian seeing 528 airborne way back when……….

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John, that’s T.5 TG518, not C.1A TG528!!

Sorry Adrian

One (more) of those Senior Moments:rolleyes:

[QUOTE=John Cooper;1098329]Great stuff Adrian seeing 528 airborne way back when……….

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John, that’s T.5 TG518, not C.1A TG528!!

Great stuff Adrian seeing 528 airborne way back when……….

This one June ’04 of 528 where I definitely gave the thumbs down, but today give a thumbs up!:p

I checked as well, not sure why I thought that, except that I did find a photo of a dayglo Hastings flying at a Staverton airshow. Perhaps that’s what put it in my mind.

As soon as you mentioned it, I knew exactly which one you were thinking of, as I was there and took this shot of TG518, a T.5 of the Bomber Command Bombing School that took part in the flying on 31st March 1968!

Nope! Here she is at Staverton in’69

I checked as well, not sure why I thought that, except that I did find a photo of a dayglo Hastings flying at a Staverton airshow. Perhaps that’s what put it in my mind.

This thread has made me recall comments from my old flying instructor, a former Beverley pilot, he often commented that they used almost as much oil as fuel and that he was always in constant amazement they did not take to flames on a regular basis from the amount of the stuff sloshing around… :diablo:

On the subject of colour schemes, didn’t it have dayglo panels when delivered to Skyfame?

Nope! Here she is at Staverton in’69

TG

TG503 Alliierten Museum Berlin 23 March this year

It is all so long ago now but the Hercules on Hastings was quite a serviceable engine, there was a problem in the very early years with oil gulping through the breather system, I seem to recall that when they changed over from the 101/106 to 216 engines that a new cooler/intercooler was fitted which eliminated that problem. I can only recall one Pre Flight where there was no oil in one of the tanks (25 gallons??), that was after someone had done the afterflight!:confused:

I’m sure some of you Bristol Boys will correct my errors but someone asked about The Centaurus, on a Bev that was a pigs ear to re-oil, as one guy used to connect the oil bowser by Zwicky Nozzle, pump the oil up to a reservoir behind #3 engine whilst another bod got into the wing root and pumped the oil from the reservoir to the other engines. No Health & Safety Executive Act in those days, if it was your turn to pump the oil out in the Libyan Desert temperatures in the noon day sun you got on and did it 😮

It was like being in a sauna, but stepping out in the cooler temperatures of the lower 100’s degrees F was like walking in to an icebox. But that was easy compared to what the guys went through 20 years before us in The Western Desert.

Their names will live for ever……………

It looks good. I would really like this aircraft to be opened to the public, I have a fading memory of going on board at a Staverton airshow in the sixties. I’m sure there were seats & a vertically mounted stretcher complete with mannequin. Some seats could still be seen during this restoration.
On the subject of colour schemes, didn’t it have dayglo panels when delivered to Skyfame?

…but seem to remember that low oil consumption was a feature of the Bristol sleeve-valve engine designs.

Perhaps they consumed so little because most of it leaked away! 😀

TG528 looks very nice in Berlin Airlift colours. As for survivors, don’t forget half of one in New Zealand,(ok its a C.3) and maybe 1 slightly flatter C.2 in Greenland, if you dig deep enough.

Tim

My main memory of my one and only excursion in a Hastings (Lindholme to Scampton and back), was the copious amount of engine oil streaking back from all four engines and disappearing off the trailing edge! 🙂

Did the Hercules engines in the Hastings suffer from high oil usage in service?

I’ve also heard that the Bristol Centaurus engine in the Beverly suffered from high oil usage but seem to remember that low oil consumption was a feature of the Bristol sleeve-valve engine designs.

the gap around the door, varied from interesting to frightning!

In service all an engine bod needed was a ‘rag spanner’ to keep the engine oil smears away and a Hide Faced Hammer and a General Service Screwdriver for everything else!

My main memory of my one and only excursion in a Hastings (Lindholme to Scampton and back), was the copious amount of engine oil streaking back from all four engines and disappearing off the trailing edge! 🙂

Mmm Hastings indeed

Lancaster ——-> York

Halifax ———–> Hastings

British creativity at it’s best:D

Cheers

Cees

I hate to say it but I think I preferred TG528 in her previous guise. Were these the colours she wore when she left military service?

She is sporting the 24 Squadron Logo, cheat line and colour scheme as she was when in service, obviously her condition over the past few years has changed considerably.

In service all an engine bod needed was a ‘rag spanner’ to keep the engine oil smears away and a Hide Faced Hammer and a General Service Screwdriver for everything else!:p

Some more of TG628 in her previous colours, haven’t made up my mind as to which I prefer yet.

“](TG528) 9th November 2005 #01
(TG528) 9th November 2005 #02
(TG528) 19th February 2003

Richard

I hate to say it but I think I preferred TG528 in her previous guise. Were these the colours she wore when she left military service?