er… conrod ?

100% correct, so far…..engine type?

That’s the vickers viking on Irish Law near Largs.

Bristol Hercules then…..thanks for that…..I would never have guessed.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1218606

Does this count?

Acquired via eBay. Apparently the father of the man who sold it recovered it from ‘a Heinkel’ that was shot-down and crashed ‘near Tangmere’ where he was based.

I would love to know the full story…..any takers? 🙂

The original spinner from the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ had a ‘swastika’ painted on the inside…

…I think this was painted there as a Native American good luck symbol.

I don’t see how anybody, but the very narrow minded, could object to you posting about this project; it even has an historic aviation theme.

The ideals of the railway preservation movement are identical to those of the aircraft preservation movement and the railway movement were perhaps the trailblazers in this field.

The replication of something of this scale shows what can be achieved…..well done!

You could try the word ‘Sturzkampfflugzeug’ to illustrate your point. But, we digress…

English language is made up of words from just about every language on the planet, long may it evolve and…

…measuring stick? :confused:

Sorry. 😮

German (and I don’t speak it) has some illogical elements too. For example all things in German are either male, female or neuter (?) so this unnecessary additional information must be remembered, whereas in English we just say ‘the’.