Hi Ken,
Just a thought…have you tried contacting any of the companies at Duxford (or any other simiar operation)? They have aircraft shipped back and forth and may be able to point you in the direction of someone they use or if you are lucky you may be able to be included in their next shipment.

Good luck

From the research I have done (although the numbers of Typhoons seems a bit high) there were in excess of 900 Typhoons, 1500 B-24’s & B-17’s and unknown number of Mosquito’s and various other types. The site was very active with training and maintenance…this is probably where many of the Wellington parts came from.

Would be very interested for a further chat….sent you PM

cheers
Dave

As it is part of my interest I always have to stick up for the Sabre…no other engine was rushed into service as quickly as the Sabre (you could probably include the vulture in that category but look what Rolls Royce did with that!!). It needed at least another couple of years of ‘shakedown’ (for the want of a better word). Testing was basically completed in the field in combat…eventually the problems were overcome and I have been told that the Sabre was as reliable as the Merlin. If you then move onto the Sabre engined Tempest there were not that many engine failures outside of combat damage and they soldiered on well into the 1950’s with the TT.5’s. Can’t have been that bad if the RAF carried on using them.

I couldn’t resist answering on my favourite subject…Typhoons & Sabres. There are a couple of dozen Sabre engines in existence (that I have conformed so far that is). From the ones I have seen (in person and in photographs) there are at least 7 that could be considered suitable for rebuild with time, knowledge and of course cash!!

The RAF Museum have 3 RR Vulture engines…2 from the same Manchester (dug up from somewhere in Lincolnshire if I remember correctly). 2 are in store and a third (I presume the best of the 3) is on loan to Rolls Royce. I saw the ones in store and they are not bad….in fact I would love to see one in a Tornado recreation 🙂 even though there are far fewer vultures than sabres there may be a better chance if these seeing the light of day!!!

Picture is labelled Typhoon…it isn’t typhoon (no space for the oil cooler in the centre of the radiator….and it look way too small!!)

did I remember correctly that this happened in the 1990’s? what were they thinking when they got rid of all those items….I would have thought that at that time they would have been worth more to the museum being sold to collectors than the scrap man