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Hi French47,

I wish I had your engine experience, I restore and rebuild aero engine’s for enjoyment, you learn something everyday, usually that the guy’s who designed and built them were way more knowledgeable than me ! you are far from clueless and you can spell, good to see you here, thanks for your input.

Andy

Ive worked in the specialist metal finishing industry for years and I have to agree with mondariz. When we first did something it was an interesting technical challenge. When you got used to doing it,we might as have been stamping out licence plates. We did microwave telecoms gear for satellites,and after the first couple, when we figured out how to put silver down the bore of a waveguide it got dull. Mind you, being able to say that we exported stuff to Jupiter was a thrill

Hi french47 and welcome to the Forum,

I’m perhaps lucky (:rolleyes:) in that I had an inherent interest in aviation all throughout my RAF service, the important thing is that you have an interest now and without that interest the whole historic aviation world would fail. Nobody is ‘clueless’, I wonder how many of us see a toy car sell for huge prices and remember that we had one just like that when…..

John

Clue less, Who me ?

Thanks for the kind words ZRX 61, Perhaps it’s just me, but having spent 50 + years with aviation fuels, lost some of my hearing and damaged my lungs with Jet exhaust fumes, so perhaps you are right and I am clueless. But like all jobs in the end you get to hate them. at the end of the day, did you keep your old school books or records? I doubt it. enough said.

[QUOTE=Mondariz;1305099]I know plenty of people in the aviation industry, that had absolutly no private interest in aviation (including air force pilots).QUOTE]

Now thats shocking 😉

I know plenty of people in the aviation industry, that have absolutly no private interest in aviation (including air force pilots).

As Bruce points out: the lack of certain historic items, simply makes the ones we have more special.

Of course, if nothing was ever thrown away, then the value of the things we hold so dear would be very much lower.

There are plenty of de Havilland manuals in circulation – to lose a few isnt the end of the world in the scheme of things.

french47 – welcome to the forum – I suspect I know, or knew a number of your old colleagues, as a number of them have passed though the museum. Me, I’m much too young to have worked at Hatfield, but I try to keep the dream alive!

Bruce

Welcome!

The highlighted text is going to make a few people cry 😮

Cry? It makes me wonder how the hell anyone could be so bloody clueless:mad:

I should piont out that not only do I use tools, I also collect old ones…

The sad thing is, when I left the game I dumped all my Manuel’s and special tools, the only thing I kept was my CAA license book.
So good luck to all you wonderful people who keep history alive.
Cheers Bill

Welcome!

The highlighted text is going to make a few people cry 😮

Welcome on board, I must admit that im envious of some of the stuff you have worked on yet find it quite refreshing that you can say ‘Gypsy Majors, Queens, Ghost, Goblin, Gyron Junior, Gnomes, Then Speys 505, 512, Rb 211, Rb 199. I have been associated with Mosquito, Sea Vixen, P1 Lighting ( Hatfield 1964) Comet, Trident, Tristar and Tornado., and in all that time I can’t say I was ever excited about any of it, it was just a job’ 😮

Any way welcome again and im sure you will be inline for a grilling about your past experiances by everyone on here.