Recent arrival with Retro aviation, ZD938 from Shawbury.
Regards
By: bloodnok - 28th November 2006 at 10:21
gillings army surplus yard in Diss,Norfolk has a few of the small gauges (accumalator/hyd pressure etc) that go on the external fuse in case anyone needs them, alond with tornado groundcrew head sets and a few other odds and sodds like tooling.
By: MerlinPete - 27th November 2006 at 23:36
For those of you interested I am restoring a Tornado cockpit myself, if anyone has parts to swap or sell please get in touch, I will be displaying at this years cockpit fest….
Simon
[email]simon@macpud.freeserve.co.uk[/email]
Hi Simon.
Welcome to the forum! 🙂
Pete
By: FMK.6JOHN - 27th November 2006 at 20:29
Holly hell!!! can’t wait to see that one at cockpitfest 😮 .
John.
By: Dave T' - 27th November 2006 at 19:57
Would that be the one at Boscombe Down?.
John.
No, its this one…….
http://www.northwestaviation.org.uk/
.
By: FMK.6JOHN - 27th November 2006 at 19:47
Would that be the one at Boscombe Down?.
John.
By: pully113 - 27th November 2006 at 19:26
Tornado Parts wanted
For those of you interested I am restoring a Tornado cockpit myself, if anyone has parts to swap or sell please get in touch, I will be displaying at this years cockpit fest….
Simon
[email]simon@macpud.freeserve.co.uk[/email]
By: Chris B - 27th November 2006 at 18:54
The airwork fiasco – see earlier discussion at ………..
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=52817
In particular AgCat’s reply around posting 20.
Regards
Chris
By: JagRigger - 27th November 2006 at 18:32
From what I understand once retired the F2’s, of which this is one, went into storage. Airworks had a contract to carry out work on the F3’s, and during this damage occured to the wing pivot box on several airframes. The solution was to utilise the F2 centre sections to rebuld the F3’s.
By: FMK.6JOHN - 27th November 2006 at 16:31
He said that none of the wiring had been butchered when the nose was removed at the transport joint so it would be safe to say that most of the cockpit lighting would be servicable, he is going to try it and see what happens.
John.
By: Phantom Phixer - 27th November 2006 at 16:24
Did he give any indication of what and may not power up once completed?
By: FMK.6JOHN - 27th November 2006 at 15:43
Just had a very interesting phone call with Retro Aviation and they are currently re-building the Tornado to a more desirable condition.
He was not able to give a price for it yet as there is still some work to do to make it safe (det cord in canopy etc.), one thing he did say is that it was from the Airworks fiasco where some perfectly good airframes were damaged due to incorrect maintenance?, someone please shed a bit more light as I have no idea what he was talking about 😮 .
The key parts of the conversation I do remember were that it was dismantled properly and is totally undamaged, the radome and canopy glass/windscreen are all there he is just trying to source the front screen frame to put it all back together.
The interior will be 70% complete and have some ground power (possibly), also he is trying to get hold of two seats ready for the sale.
It goes without saying that with all this work to do before the sale it might not be on the market just yet.
Regards,
John.
By: Phantom Phixer - 27th November 2006 at 12:16
I’d be interested to know the cost of the section. The Hunter also on offer at £9K seems a little steep even to my untrained eye 🙂
By: FMK.6JOHN - 27th November 2006 at 11:46
Looks like the front screen is missing and both seats, odds on that the interior is totally gutted for spares too, would make a good project though if the price is right.
Shame cos Mr piggy bank aint fat enough yet !!!!.
John.
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