Tiffy….

When I was doing research on surviving engines I found that the engine at Duxford was a gift from Cambridge department of engineering…there is a high chance that this engine is from a different airframe or it may never have been in an airframe at all.

Out of interest do Duxford find smaller items i.e. the Tiffy cockpit difficult to deal with? I spent alot of time there the cockpit a couple of years ago. I almost walked past it tucked away between the two pillars and only one other person stopped to even read the note on the firewall, and then swiftly walked away!!! Given the history of the airfield I would have thought more emphasis would have been placed on it…almost seems as though it doesn’t fit in with their requirements!! Any plans to restore it in the near future (I noticed it starting to get surface rust on the tubes)?

Sorry for all the questions….thanks for taking the time to answer my others!.

Dave

p.s. do duxford hold any Hawker drawings?

Re: Duxford…

Jonathon,

Sorry to Cees and everyone for hijacking the thread but I was wondering if you may have any history on the Typhoon cockpit you have at Duxford? I have tried writing and calling Duxford on a number of occasions over the years and never got an answer, I think I was contacting the wrong people. I believe it may have been a crashed aircraft that became an instructional airframe when not repaired. I have also been told that the cockpit did include the engine bearers at one stage…these may still be at Duxford!!

More out of hope than anything…do Duxford have archive drawings for any Hawker Aircraft esp. the Typhoon?

Regards
Dave

Hawker Typhoon…

The aircraft in the background is a car door Hawker Typhoon JP961, JX-U. Shot down in France during 1943. There is a clearer picture of it (possibly cropped and blown up version of this) in Hawker Typhoon 126, by Seweryn Fleischer on P58.

DH88…

They have a very successful repair/maintenance facility there so I am guessing that it was another damaged aircraft arriving for work. The Comet has been there for a number of years and is in a dry/warm secure building on site….u can’t see it from the outside of the building.

Comet Racer…

I’m suprised on a wet day like today there wasn’t anyone around to show you the DH88 we are rebuilding there….

Colour photos…

Go to this site and look at the colour photos. Some of them modern, some of them generated images but most of them seem to be genuine wartime colour photos…

http://www.topsitelists.com/tout.cgi?area=bestsites&user=craigiec&nocheat=1086953374&ID=6&url=http://www.ww2aircraft.net

Tempest II

That particular aircraft is Hawker Tempest II MW810 that was once at the New England Museum and as pointed out is owned by Nelson Ezell. When I was in contact with them I was told that the wings had been refurbished but everything else was in store…not sure if they were done to airworthy spec or not but I suspect they are.