Great pictures from a forgotten era thank you for the information. Apparently the building in Ryde was located in Star Street and the Tiger Moth fuselages were towed to Bembridge with a chap holding onto the tailskid !
Ryde former airport site is now a huge 24 hour Tesco store.

I know I have a couple of photos, I will try & dig them out this weekend.

Cheers Brian.;)

Since my only justification for being on here is that I’m mad about flying boats,do I have to make my excuses and leave then?(please say no !)

Hi BB,

Just a thought – have you read ‘Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat’ by Sir Alan Cobham (around Africa in the 1920’s) incredible story, especially the wife’s part!.

Cheers Brian Doherty.:D

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I think “DiveTheWorld” may have had the secret details of an intact one sunken in Lake Windermere, and had side scan sonar and confirmed diver sitings to prove it, and were able to recover it for interested investors willing to fund the recovery – unfortunately that opportunity now seems lost with the principal’s passing.

smiles – grabs his hat and coat and quickly departs

Mark Pilkington

There was a thread on Sunderlands, recently, being sunk in lake windermere, it appears that some guy make claims and also said he had side scans, but it appears to have all been a fake and the guy is now dead, so I think this DiveTheWorld may be part of it, there are members of this forum who know the whole story.

Cheers Brian.;)

Nice Photo of Super Cub N7238X:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1028220/

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mmmm …….. but terrible colour scheme – you could lose it in the grass on a bad day – needs some bright reds and yellows!

Talking of a bad day, that last chap was in a rush – you could smell the material burning – humour has a lot to answer for!

Cheers Brian. 😀

Moggy, their getting there listen to this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylCtXK0z9us&feature=related

I imagine the Chinese fibre glass Lanc’s were built in much the same way as the SU27 I know alot would like to see any replicas built to the very inch an exact match, but it just isn’t every going to happen, the costs are just too prohibitive… I would not mind one little bit to see a full scale Whirly or any other lost aircraft built using these very same techniques, and if it could move under its own power using a Jag V12 or V8 or even a VW rather than a couple of Peregrines I would not care, just to see a full in your face, full scale accurate replica (Exterior) would be wonderful. And something that good for say 25 – 50k or even 100k would be so much more attainable than something costing 1.5million plus…

Stuart

Hi Stuart,

Don’t forget the techniques and time taken to produce this SU27, is to enable future kits to be produced, it does not need these moulds and plugs to be made for a one off, the normal techniques for producing a one off, starts with designing and making the body frames, wing ribs, etc., and going from there, you will be using glass and resins but not as complex, time consuming or expensive. If we are allowed to mention a ‘magazine’ I find the one mentioned on ‘rcjetinternational.com’ a very good guide to the whole area.

Cheers Brian.:D