Ian…

Thank you again, what a wonderful day it must have been!

Brilliant to see these photo’s, very much appreciated…;)

Stuart

That’s a wonderful piece of work, your very lucky to have found someone so skilled… Beautiful, do you think the better of the two Peregrines Steve Vizard found would be able to be stripped and documented in that way to produce a working replica…

This report says that one of the Peregrines found was in ‘superb condition’ 30 years is along time to have an engine, plenty of time for a wealthy, resourceful chap to be able to perhaps build a new Peregrine… 😉

Stuart…

I believe Dave Gibbings (judwin) has taken on Fred’s role at Westlands.!

Oh, thanks WF will need to speak with him in the new year. On another point just ordered my copies of the Whirly repair manuals from the RAFM and enquired how much they had on the Whirly – 1012 items listed… 🙂

Fred did say that there were some microfiche that had Whirlwind data, but Westlands would not pay for it to be converted to digital at the time. Where is that now and wonder if it’s not long gone past it’s shelve life…

Isn’t it about time to pool the information we have collected in the one place and see what we have to play with? Perhaps then we might find enough to back engineer a 1/4 scale or better replica…

For instance would it be possible using these few images, the repair and parts manual and some decent photo’s to recreate a good facsimile of our beloved Whirlys tail plane in AutoCAD and then to reconstruct a full size tail plane in real life from scaled up measurements, using the virtual model as the template…?

Have we found the name of the Camp Commander that had the Peregrines taken out for his speedboat yet? Would the aircraft have been struck off charge, if so what documentation would have had to be filled in if any? Who would have taken them out, the camps technicians?

So often information hard gained never see’s the light of day, one can only hope someone will see this thread and that it might lead to new information about the whereabouts…

Oh that reminds me, where would you go to get my Whirly replica ‘Operational Limitations Plate’ made up for real…

We’ve up dated it from this image, lost the “C’s”…

Stuart

Hi
personal theory only,
But my bet for a holy grail would be the florida area.
P6994 went to a scrappie there and the peregrines went into a speedboat, after the USN finished with it.

Jerry…

Did you find out or enquire which Base/Commander it might have been and follow up the trail from there… There’s probably an album with a picture of the boat with its proud owner showing off it’s Rolls-Royce Engines…:)