I’m not to sure actually if Malcolm redone all the wireing on our Canny. I know he had a few headaches with some of it, but she pretty much works ok now. We had quite a few hydraulic leaks to content with, but the two of us worked at it and stopped them. The hand pump in the cockpit got quite stiff once all the fluid was circulating around the system………..you could get in trouble saying things like that to often 😮

Wow they have their work cut out for them if they do anything to that plane….

It can be saved Pete to be honest. It’s not in that bad a condition considering where it’s sat.

A few panels are dented and the cockpit is stripped but it can be rescued. 😉

Well Heidi wont be with me so I will do my best, give me something to fix or build Im ya gal but er give me a camera im worse than an ash tray on motorbike!!!

To be honest Bex, thats more the case with me and Martin. He is good at photography but I do the restoring of the airframes.

I’m showing him the ropes with working on our aircraft as he’s still a virgin at it but at the same time he’s showing me a few things with camera work and articles, but both together we are an unbeatable duo. We’ve done loads for the museum and we have excellent ideas that have fallen into place.

Well Rob, Phantom did say u were his “partner in crime”

What’s that supposed to mean?!!!

Gents…is another scrap yard thread really necessary?

😉

If you see these airframes as scrap then you are most certainly not an aviation lover or restorer!!!!

This is what we are all about!!! 😉

These pictures we took on this day were good I admit, but, it was cold, raining, miserable………..we both came down with man fleu a day or so later 🙁 Was it worth it?……………….

it was worth every nose dribbling moment!!!!! 😀

Ah cheers – how’s the Whirlwind coming along? Will definitely go along to see that when it’s finished. Great work you guys are doing at Cov, if only I had a bit more spare time and had transport to get there i’d be mucking in too. Maybe in a few months time, fingers crossed

We’re doing quite well on her actually.

She’s been rubbed down and is ready for painting, but, we are still undesided on the colour scheme.

The Bristows markings you see in the picture above are not the only colours she had on. We have a B&W picture of her in a different colour, albeit still working for Bristows. This is the colour we want to do her in for a change. The problem we have, is we don’t have a colour picture of it in this other scheme to identify the shade of blue.

So until we come up with one. we’re stuck 😀

Has to be the Flea for me! 😮