Short Stirling part

HI Alec

John has passed on your message. Happy to chat, for some reason I can’t IM you on this site, but do contact me on coop81899@hotmail.com.

Cheers

James

Hi John,

Could you please let him know that there has been renewed interest in Dry Drayton in WW2 crash sites including the that of the Short Sterling. I would love to talk to him again having met him briefly several years ago.

Thanks,

Alec

Hi Alec

I’m in touch with James if you need to contact him

John

I am hoping to contact the James who visited Dry Drayton several times in connection with the crash of Short Sterling N6012. 

Thanks James the drawing confirms that 17 is virtually at the wing tip which fits with the reduction to such a small piece.

Nice work with the paper.

Hi

Attached is what might get you to rib 17 just for your information. While I’m not suggesting that you are planning to have the part unwrapped, I had a situation where I wanted to unwrap a crushed part of a Stirling that I am interested in personally. While I wanted to leave it ‘as is’, I still wanted to know what part of the aircraft the part was from. So taking a piece of card I pushed, inserted and wrapped it around the flat parts such that the card followed the metal in its crushed shape. At the same time I trimmed the card to the outline. I also marked the rivet holes and fold lines. Attached is what I got when I extracted and unfolded the card and I believe that I found the bracket that it would have been before the crash.

Cheers

James

James the piece I have – when straightened would have the same structure as those in the first image.

The two arms with opposing top hat profile – the reinforcing plate at the front and the flanged edge all round for rivetting to the external skin. I assume bolted to the main spar at the top and bottom.

There is one pencil text on it which implies rib 17  so I assume a long way down the wing.

Unfortunately unbending it to confirm would require complete disassembly and straightening each component separately before re-rivetting together – the sort of task only experts at the Stirling project would undertake..

Hi

Here are some pics of the ‘leading edge’. I assume that the design changed along the length of the wing.

Cheers

James

John/James thank you to you both.

Hi FA

As James states it’s mainplane although I can’t identify the individual parts from the Vol 3. I suspect it’s a leading edge rib; there should be an assembly number on there somewhere though.

Nice find

BR

John

Thank you James.  It is beautifully over engineered.

I assume it is leading edge from the outer wing given its height.

Hi

3297 parts are stated as ‘Main Plane’

Cheers

James