Also, 26WW Whirlwind Helicopter.

Summer 1980 in a Westland Whirlwind HAR 10 from Shawbury. Don’t know which a/c but the pilot was Flt Lt ‘Chas’ Chubb and I got a severe headache because my bone dome was too tight. Good fun though, an hour at low level following roads, canals, railway lines and then landing in a forest clearing six inches bigger than the rotor diameter.

A labour of love….and money I would have thought ….excellent work !

Here is an overview of the build.
http://www.largemodelassociation.com/keith_mitchell_hunter.htm

And whilst we’re on the model theme, here is another big one to look forward to. An SR71 Blackbird.

http://www.mmrca.org/lance/sledframe.html

I believe the VC10 tanker had a mahogany strip on the mouth of the HDU fairing.

I was also told that years ago the BBMF fighters had the prop leading edges painted with nail varnish to prevent erosion.

Last year was excellent! A couple of incidents though, a Chinook wheel fell off and more seriously a burger van caught fire…after I’d been queuing for 30mins !

Here’s to a good one this year.

Hi folks,
Just looking at a set of pilot’s notes for the Lysander, and there’s a reference to an “I.C.W. Switch”, which I think is something to do with the wireless, but as I haven’t the faintest what it is, I don’t know. Anyone know?

Incidentally, Item 70 is an “elastic band” – not part of the engine, but perhaps for flicking at annoying 109s?
TIA

Item 70 – in lieu of bicycle clips for short field landings at night perhaps 😀

No pictures but an interesting story:

Whilst working in the prop shop at Oxford Airport we had a prop sent in for ‘severe vibration’. On initial assessment it was seen that the blades had taken on a gull wing shape. On contacting the aircrafts owner he stated that he had hit a chock whilst taxying and bent the blades. He had a local blacksmith beat then straight, refitted it to the aircraft and flew it back from Germany to the UK !

The whole prop was wrecked and subsequently scrapped.

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