Looks a lot like the bucket ram on on an old Massy Ferguson tractor to me?

Bad choice of words on my part, since there is no friction involved at the joint on the ground or in flight! I guess what I was trying to say is the load is taken by the reamed pins, the nut’s are purely there to stop the pins falling out? they would appear not to have a clamping load on the spar carry through? unless there was a method of shimming the shoulder to a set depth through the spar carry through? I’m not a designer I’ll grant you, just a mechanic trying to understand the designers method. Something we mechanics have been doing since designers started designing! It usually starts with “Why the F did they do that”!

Begs the question, If we hadn’t had the Spitfire could the Hurricane have been developed into a fighter capable of fighting off the various developments of German fighter throughout the war? After all, development of the Hurricane seems to have been stopped after the spitfire came along and proved to be more capable?

Holy sh*t batman…………

Back in the 70’s when working for Jack Barclay’s the Rolls-Royce dealer I had to try and fix “the beast” as it had broken down outside the works in Battersea, after cleaning out the inlet filter on the fuel intake of the single puny looking single four barrel Carb. the only way we could get it started was for me to cover the carb intake with my hands and crank it over! when it fired it almost sucked my hand in with it and the noise was so bad/loud I almost needed clean underwear…………I remember that the valve gear made more noise than the exhaust and that it ran like a bucket of bolts. It eventually had to leave on the back of a low loader as it was due at court for an inspection for the Radiator shell copyright infringement. But for a young lad it was a most memorable experience.

Not much chance of a go-around with no oil pressure I would have thought? Must be another reason for it being set that way? most probably due to if it fails it fails in the safer option?

Berlin express is absolutely beautiful, but Oh those whitewalls!

Is the material strong enough to drill and tap threads or will you have to use inserts of some sort? Although expensive this is a very cool way of building what is fast becoming unobtainable!