Wellington In A Lake In Norway

Good luck in trying to get the various parties with bits to combine them for a more complete project.

I’ve waiting for years for the Stirling community to come together. 🙂

??? They are all together in a workshop in Alconbury. You are more than welcome to visit, if you wish.

If you take a close look at Wellington R-Robert at Brooklands, which is possible thanks to the brave decision to leave the majority of the airframe uncovered, it is obvious just how much of the fuselage geodetic structure is completely new-build; the specialist rolling equipment does, or fairly recently, did exist to produce most of the major components for a ‘complete’ new-build fuselage. And I believe one of the strengths of the Wellington geodetic construction was the fact that it was made-up from relatively few simple pieces repeatedly built-up in various configurations to form the whole airframe.

Good luck in trying to get the various parties with bits to combine them for a more complete project.

I’ve waiting for years for the Stirling community to come together. 🙂

Attempting to stitch together yards of corroded geodesic sounds like a challenge. From memory there is a chunk of one sitting in the deep stores at East Fortune, and small geodesic sections occasionally wash up along the Moray coast after storms. There is probably a lot of constituent Wellington material out there, but I imagine reconstructing it all would be akin to trying to piece together a smashed honeycomb. As such there might be more of a compelling argument for building a new one from scratch?

The ‘second fuselage at Brooklands’ is a walkthrough exhibit that incorporates some bits of leftover material and some new-built bits but is nowhere near a complete fuselage. It dates back to the original restoration of R for Robert.
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Hi All,
Scotavia – Link US…:eek:

As for the thread I remember asking about a Wellington that is apparently in some marsh (London area) that keeps appearing from time to time did that
ever have a recovery operation ? Then there was the one posted on the forum a while back that was in remarkable condition condition discovered by
divers in the Mediterranean somewhere.

Isn’t there a second fuselage being worked on at Brooklands ? If as suggested it’s a relatively easy construct why has nobody ever tried to restore one to airworthiness ? Would that be another case of finding the correct engines similar to the Beaufighter not being completed ? or is that old sticking problem
funding and the will to do it ? Having said this couldn’t you just plum in others i.e. Sea Fury with Curtis wright engines.

Geoff.

Wellington BK309 was piloted by ‘Great Escape’ tunneller Ken ‘Shag’ Rees.

Theres enough bits to put together to make a third one for sure and yes a Canadian one would be great!

The construction principles required special tooling used by no other aircraft company before or since. “bits kicking about” don’t add up to an entire aircraft.

You would have thought, given the construction principles used, it wouldn’t be that difficult to produce another Wimpy from ‘bits’ kicking about – and I’m not just thinking of the sections around UK museums that get mentioned here from time-to-time

https://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/langavatnet.html

It would be good if the Canadians could get a Wellington Peter

The only Wellington I have knowledge of lost in Norway is Vickers Wellington B Mk.III of 150 Sqn BK309 coded JN-N lost and crashed at Langavatnet, Tysvær Rogaland 23.10 1942. Large parts recovered and in the Sola museum.

FB