WD-40 is also a very temporary way of making aircraft appear clean. A couple of rain showers later and your aircraft is covered in black streaks.

I would certainly agree with HFL, PX-24 is top stuff for many and various tasks. It is wax based so much more reslient to weather and drys to a thin film rather than just washing straight off. It is also much less volatile than WD, especially if applied using a hand operated spray bottle, cutting out all the solvents and propellants used to get oil based lubricants to spray.

We used it extensively on the Canberra fleet on 39 (1PRU) Sqn (though for preventative corrosion treatment rather than cleaning) and it left me with a healthy dislike for WD-40 to this day, especially seeing it being chucked over lovely original aircraft finishes! I still use PX-24 today in my aircraft preservation work and would love to see it used more.

Just give it a couple of squirts, a wipe over and she’ll look a treat!

Oh and PX-24 smells better than WD-40 too :p

They are certainly present on the likes of the JP and I know how much you love them! 😀

Sorry, I do not agree. I see that you are a volunteer at the Newalk air museum, and very commendable too.
What if all the aircraft in your museum had crashed and been totalled prior to being put in your museum, by an enemy.or fire or something else?.
Would I be correct in saying there would be no use for you at the museum?.

It’s not as if they do not have enough, they have some still in mothballs or so I am led to beleive.So I am sure she would not be missed.

Lincoln .7

Speechless!! 😮

Maybe it would pay to have a read of this link, admittedly from a couple of years ago now, but indicative of the current state according to those who are/have been serving – but one of several which nothing more than a quick google search will find relating to the desperate shortage of helicopters (Chinook in particular) in theatre..

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/CUT-SHUT/article-1174145-detail/article.html

Maybe it’ll make you think a little longer?

Thankya kindly!

ahh thanks Alan. I was aware they were disembodied in a gruesome fashion for transport to Millom but was picturing them having been cut up further for transport to wherever “abroad” is on the gist of that last post..it’s all a bit grim!

There’s a few of us would be interested to know the actual fate of the old “7” so if anyone does hear of anything, keep us posted!

EDIT – Anon’s post answered my question..ta!

There used to be one in the hangar at Bournmouth where the Vampire’s and Venom’s were kept, what happened to that one??

The Jet Age example BAPC72 is the very same, though I seem to recall when the museum rescued it, we found it in external storage, the wings having been driven over by a fire engine 🙁

As Graham says, the wings are of a far inferior build quality which is a shame as the fuselage is much closer to the original than you’d expect.

Oh and yes in reply to your question Graham, it did have a few different motors in it’s time – mini starter motor, electric garage door motor..all set to turn very slowly as we didn’t really employ barriers or walkways at the Jet Age back then!

The prop blades were modified modern(ish) Dowty jobs, fashioned by a very skilled chap by the name of Martin Clarke (ex Dowty) who spent an age profiling them to as close to the original as possible. They look just the job!