We currently operate G-BNPH here at St Athan and i am urgently looking for some paperwork or manuals that could help. I need to find some notes or training manuals for engineers on the Pembroke or Sea Prince. This is to satisfy the CAA. Any help in tracing this information would be gratefully recieved. I have been in touch with Hendon and Bae Systems already.
By: TonyT - 20th November 2012 at 12:07
Possibly other people that may have archived training material is Cosford, but don’t hold your breath, I sadly skipped all of my course notes at the end of all my RAF training courses, there was so much of the stuff and I just didn’t have room to store / move it all around the country, I have some of my mechs course stuff from Saints up at Carlisle. My VC 10 course notes were used on LSS and whoever last completed the courses replaced the previous users notes in the filing cabinet, to be dragged out when we had the weird and wonderful problems the manuals never covered in detail.
By: pagen01 - 19th November 2012 at 20:18
Try Rolls Royce Historical at Derby, they might hold engine manuals…
Alvis was a subsidiary of Rover, maybe their archive will hold something, HFL have engine manuals.
Much of the Hunting Percival archives are with the BAe collection at Farnborough, I can’t think why they would have the course notes but maybe worth a try.
On the service side of things, the RAFM would be the first place that I would have tried, but maybe the AHB at Northolt might hold these notes?
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th November 2012 at 19:38
doesn’t PK at bournemouth have the stuff, he was doing maintenance of them in the past
By: TonyT - 19th November 2012 at 19:12
Out of interest if your engineers have 6.3 surely they would be covered for the engines.
By: Seafuryfan - 19th November 2012 at 18:58
Didn’t Classic Flight operate a Pembroke/Sea Prince at one time?
They still do: Pembroke XL954.
By: TonyT - 19th November 2012 at 18:18
My RAF basic training although we did pistons etc and covered the Pembroke, they wouldn’t cover it to the depth you require, you would want someone’s type course notes from their course when they were posted on them.
Or another possibility is Huntings as they absorbed Percival.
Red Bull operate the Sycamore, that has a variant of the engine in it.
By: Wyvernfan - 19th November 2012 at 16:26
The Rural Flying Corps operated the Sea Prince for a number of years. They might be worth a punt.
http://www.rfcbourn.flyer.co.uk/Rural_Flying_Corps_-_Bourn/Home.html
Rob
By: John C - 19th November 2012 at 16:20
Didn’t Classic Flight operate a Pembroke/Sea Prince at one time?
By: Resmoroh - 19th November 2012 at 16:07
And I’ll bet there are no SOPs for the Pembroke in either its ASR role, or its Stores Para-Dropped re-supply role?
HTH
Resmoroh
By: HFL - 19th November 2012 at 15:50
Manuals
Thanks for the info so far. I have the aircraft maintenance manuals. I am looking for training sheets that would have been issued to engineers when they started work on the aircraft or at basic training
By: Thunderbird167 - 19th November 2012 at 15:43
Rotol Accessories gearboxes and Drives Air Publication AP 2240A Vol.1 Book.1, General & Technical Info Manual ( For Firefly, Brigand, Attacker, Hastings, Lincoln, Meteor,
Pembroke, Prince, Provost, Sea Fury, Sea Prince, Shackelton, Sturgeon, Varsity, Wyvern———-254 pages—-379 meg
Available from [email]sales@military-aircraft-photos.com[/email]
By: TonyT - 19th November 2012 at 15:12
Try Rolls Royce Historical at Derby, they might hold engine manuals, also classic flight, they have the Twin Pin, though I different variant of the engine, they may have something.
Also ask in the military pilot section of pprune.org, some may have the pilots course notes etc.
By: Newforest - 19th November 2012 at 15:02
Presumably the owners of G-BXES and SE-BKH, both reported as being airworthy would be able to help? 🙂
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