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October 19, 2006 at 12:02 am in reply to: Four bladed wooden propellor Identification Help #1247838

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Not a Fury/Sea Fury – all had five bladed duralumin props.

Also you’re assuming it’s a Centaurus prop.

Could still be Hercules (Halifax)?

WA$.

October 18, 2006 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Four bladed wooden propellor Identification Help #1247900

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Hello Martin,

Forget serial numbers, count the bolts.

Count the ring of bolts/studs round the outside of the big gear. If there are 14 it’s a Hercules, 18 and it’s a Centaurus.

If you count the teeth on the three different sized gears you can work out the reduction ratio and get a clue to the aircraft type.

No offence intended by the p^ss-taking but the eBay posting did sound like the unscrupulous trying to trap the unwary and I for one am genuinely interested to know what this relic is.

It may turn out to be more interesting that some boring bit of a Spitfire…oops, what am I saying!

WA$.

October 17, 2006 at 10:43 am in reply to: HP Hyderabad Prop Hub Clock – nice but costly? #1249769

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So we know what it isn’t…

WOW L@@K! MEGA-Rare Hawker SPITFIRE PROPELLER from the actual plane used by DOUGLAS BADER (who was born with TIN LEGS) to shoot down RUDOLF HESS flying HITLER’S personal Messerschmitt 109…THIS IS TRUE ‘cos I’ve got a MAGIC telephone that you can ring RAF DUXFORD in 1941 and they say it’s TRUE!

So what is it?

Farman reduction gear, radial engine, probably Bristol.

The ratio looks more like Centaurus than Hercules.

Centaurus and four bladed prop…

Tempest II, Buckingham, Buckmaster or Brigand?

Any educated guesses?

WA$.

October 12, 2006 at 11:33 pm in reply to: HP Hyderabad Prop Hub Clock – nice but costly? #1253287

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Cheap at half the price?

…a helicopter that is!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=020&item=300037534094&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

WA$.

October 12, 2006 at 1:25 am in reply to: . . .and Spitfire relic trawled from the Channel #1254757

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The Farman reduction gear made me think Bristol too.

The ratio looks more like Centaurus than Hercules (but I could be wrong).

Centaurus and four bladed prop…possibly Tempest II, Buckingham, Buckmaster or Brigand. Did any of these have wooden props?

WA$.

October 10, 2006 at 9:22 am in reply to: What do you collect? #1257278

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How much??

Free to a good home.

PM your address and I’ll post it to you.

WA$.

October 10, 2006 at 12:01 am in reply to: What do you collect? #1257570

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Some Blackburn Skua ‘artwork’ for XN923.

October 8, 2006 at 10:00 pm in reply to: Airfix in trouble… #1259303

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It’s like Messerschmitt taking over Supermarine!

Don’t you mean BMW taking over Austin…

…or MAN taking over Napier?

germans or americans in charge of airfix u choose

Germans please.

WA$.

October 4, 2006 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Funding to restore Cardington hangar? #1264477

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So two sheds:

Number 1 (northern shed) erected in 1915 and extended in 1924 to 1926 to build R101. This one is grade 2 listed.

Number 2 (southern shed) originally erected in Pulham, Norfolk to build R100 and moved to Cardington in 1928. This one obviously in considerably better condition.

So number 2 shed was the one used by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and then Warner Bros.

Anybody know why only shed number 1 is listed?

WA$.

October 4, 2006 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Funding to restore Cardington hangar? #1265054

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Amazingly good satellite imagery on Google Maps of Cardington. Not sure how old these are as I thought the site was flattened except for the hangars.

http://maps.google.com/maps

Is that a scrapyard along the disused railway line to the east?

WA$.

October 3, 2006 at 11:15 pm in reply to: Funding to restore Cardington hangar? #1265606

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Not sure about the status of Airship Industries but I don’t think there is any production activity at Cardington.

The other hangar is rented to Warner Bros to shoot a Batman film.

One hangar was listed for sale recently…..only four million quid.

I notice that the Cargolifter shed at Brand in Germany is now some Center Parcs style venue called ‘Tropical Islands’ with 850 sun-loungers.

Get those towels ready!

WA$.

October 3, 2006 at 10:31 pm in reply to: Funding to restore Cardington hangar? #1265743

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And the distance between Duxford and Fowlmere is?

Moggy

About two and a half miles at a guess?

Actually I was thinking more as a commercial viability for basing warbirds than from any physical limitation.

This part of the country is well served already but I still dream about airships every time I drive through Cardington.

WA$.

October 3, 2006 at 4:34 pm in reply to: Funding to restore Cardington hangar? #1266242

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Airships not Fighters.

Too close to Old Warden and Duxford (and Cardington village) for aircraft other than airships.

Not sure about the housing. Depends where they build it. On the former technical site is probably OK so long as the green fields to the south and east are left intact there is still the possibility of airship use.

WA$.

September 26, 2006 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Aircraft part numbers #1278398

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Bristol Part Numbers

Does anybody know what the ‘S’ prefix on Bristol part numbers signifies?

For example SFB59109 which is a Ransom & Marles bearing from the reduction gear of a Hercules engine.

I know what the ‘F’ and ‘B’ stand for and thought that ‘S’ may stand for ‘shadow’ production by others than Bristol but then why mark a bought-out component in this way unless Bristol made their own (unlikely)?

Also do Bristol airframe components carry the ‘FB’ prefix or is it just their engines?

Be gentle…..it’s my first post.

WA$.
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