Hi Jerry…

I’ve always had a hankering to get a one off wooden Whirly made, but as yet have not actually got around to enquire how much it would cost.

There are a few who say they will make you a museum quality model starting from £300… I would be willing to spend around the £1000 mark to have a scale 1/48 – 1/24 Whirlwind made – After all, I have alot of material to make sure its accurate… 😉

I’ll post some of the sites…

Capt. Midnight

The book in question is: British Experimental Jet Aircraft, By Barrie Hygate, Argus Books, ISBN 1 85486 010 0

I always use AbeBooks their site is here: http://www.abebooks.co.uk

It took over a year to find the copy…

A search only returned one available at the moment and that’s in San Francisco… Here:

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=BARRIE+HYGATE&bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&sortby=3&sts=t&tn=BRITISH+EXPERIMENTAL+JET+AIRCRAFT&x=28&y=14

Perhaps we could send her to skim Russia’s borders and see how they like it…;)

Sorry Bruce.

Wonderful news to think we will soon be able to see and hear XH558 in the sky again after her long absence…

It would be nice to see her eventually with the BBMF as stablemates… 😉

Jerry.

No pictures…

I checked the book in question – British Secret Projects Fighter & Bombers 1939-1950 By Tony Buttler

Westland P.13
Westlands submitted two proposals. The first was a highly experimental arrangement of typical single-engined layout but in which two Merlin XXs in the nose were coupled in tandem to drive a pair of contra-rotating airscrews through a common gearbox. It carried six 20mm cannon, three in each wing, but was disliked by the Air Staff, partly because of the very poor view for the pilot and also due to some questionable handling qualities for fighting. Time to 20,000ft (6,096m) was estimated to be 9.3minutes and to 30,000ft (9,144m) 16.2minutes, service ceiling 37,000ft (11,278m). It does not appear to have been examined in detail and no drawing has been found. Both Westland designs had the second crewman sitting with his back to the pilot…

Sorry Jerry…

After the war the United State cancelled all lend-lease debts except that of the USSR. In 1972 the USSR and the United States signed an agreement that the USSR would pay $722 million of its debt by July 1, 2001.

Hmmm… Strange, what was it then we had only last year finished paying the Americans for…:rolleyes: Club Membership perhaps…