A note of caution here b!
If you think the cost of the a/c is either your major cost or a significant cost, I’m afraid that’s a big error.
Housing, tools, transport, expenses, parts etc etc – ALL will INDIVIDUALLY total up to more than the airframe will cost you once you get started.
I don’t want to put you off, but regard the aircraft cost as 1/5 of your budget – max.
I’d strongly suggest you get a learning curve by working with some other folks – and if a journey to another group is off putting now, think again about your own project when it’s in a cold shed up the bum of beyond…
Good luck though!

Hi
I’d listen very carefully to what both JDK and Melv are saying here.
Working alone on a project like this can sap the will-power of the strongest of us.
Once the initial enthusiasm is gone it can take real discipline to get up each day and go out to a usually cold and cheerless workshop (during the ten month English Winter) to work on any project, be it car, motorbike, boat or aeroplane.
I’ve had some experience of the first three on that little list and never intend to do any of it again!
My hat is very definitely lifted to someone like Melv who’s just spent four years locked in a Hampshire cowshed restoring his Rearwin.

Very well worth considering before you start.
Cheers
Andy.
PS Melv, sorry about the compliment. I promise never to spoil you like that again. Next post will be back to insults only.
Thought anymore about that money making scheme I proposed for you yesterday?

Sorry – I should say it’s probably an aerial, might be part of the crash barrier, a washing line – but it’s not part of the Avenger (IMHO!)

Hi James
I’ll look for a bit of metal that shape. I agree could be anything–especially on a British carrier. 😉 😉
Might even be a bit Seafire arrestor gear left hanging on a bit of superstructure. 🙂 🙂 🙂

For some reason I have a hunch that this is a fleet carrier which should narrow it down a bit.
Cheers
Andy

I think there was also an instance where a dud German shell was disarmed and found to contain a piece of paper with the words “This is all we can do…”, which was thought to have been put into the body of the shell by a forced labourer. Not sure where I read that,

Steve
it came from ‘The Fall of Fortresses’ by Elmer Bendiner.
He was a navigator with the 379th BG at Kimbolton. Those shells were dug out of the leading edge of the wing of the B-17 he flew in.
I think it was called ‘Tondelayo’–great book. I read it twenty years ago when I was still a student.

Incidentally, the Operations Officer of the 379th at the time was a Lt Col Louis ‘Rip’ Rohr. A relation I believe of a certain member of our little congregation who writes from Maine each evening.
Cheers
Andy