Whirlwind Fighter Project…
To recreate a full scale stactic replica of the RAF’s first cannon fighter, the Westland Whirlwind…
Site here:
whirlwindfighterproject.org
Drop me aline…
Stuart
As you can see from this image Gunnar has it covered pretty much…
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Thanks Ross…
We’ve already got the full compliment of both the crash photos and the drawings – It’s worrying that data is being misplaced and are not checked that they are placed back correctly, another is that they have been mis labeled and are for all intensive purposes ‘lost’
We’re still waiting for the IWM to turn up some original RAE photos that Farnborough let them have over 10 years ago…
Sorry Andy, I didn’t see it, could I trouble you for a copy of the account please?
Thanks also for the nod to Spitfireman.
Stu…
Thanks Jerry, found this a while ago, but it wasn’t available to listen to it online then…
Nice to hear one of the greatest test pilots of all time.
Stu…
Rob, check your PM’s…
Stu…
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Haven’t a clue, but not nearly as much as a Whirlwind one… :rolleyes:
We are getting pretty good at chipping away… 😉
Don’t quote me on this but I think Gunnar use’s the latest version…
Stu…
Hi Dave…
It’s Gunnar whose making the progress, we just feed him what information our research has turned up and he turns it into Gold, sort of like a high tech Rumpelstiltskin… 😉
But its not all sweetness & light as there are some areas that as yet we just don’t know anything about and we’re not in the guessing game, so those will have to stay blank until information or actual structure can be viewed.
You know only to well yourself how difficult it is to back engineer these projects…
Hi Jay…
Yes a certain amount of material does reside with that someone, we have already been in contact and will be able to view what remains sometime in the spring…
3D Scanner’s at the ready…
Stu…
Another update on the CAD model from Gunnar, internal construction has started on the centre fuselage and tail plane assemblies…
No nothing we haven’t seen before…
Bit of a cheek that they showed 4 images of the Whirly and said Westland manufactured the most iconic fighter of the War, while showing a picture of a Whirlwind on the production line and then blinking said ‘The Spitfire’ :p
Great British Railway Journeys – Series 4 – 17. Salisbury to Castle Cary AgustaWestland sequence starts around the 17 minute mark…
Thank you all for the support, we’re lucky to have Gunnar a highly skilled mechanical engineer with such a wealth of experience in SolidWorks CAD…
Little update…
Thank you Andy, I know he answered a question put by me about the coupe operation in which he described how he had difficulty it getting it open while he fell to earth…
Stu…
Has anybody ever physically investigated and discounted the long standing rumours about the Whirlwind G-APOI dumped on the airfield at Yeovil?
It’s still there and we know where it is as well… 😉
It would be so easy to build a shell that looked like a Stirling but what you are doing is incredibly brave – I wish you every success
oooh, thats a bit harsh mate…;)
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