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December 30, 2007 at 9:15 pm in reply to: Anson Survivors (Zombie from 2004) #1323802

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Bill Reid of RR Aviation in Wakefield, Nelson, New Zealand is working at getting a Mk 1 in the air in 2008. It will have Cheetahs.

This pic was taken some months ago.

December 26, 2007 at 9:10 pm in reply to: Conventional and Nose Gear #1328076

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Early nosegear aircraft.

It seems to me that the General Aircraft Cygnet and the Owlet, from the early WW II era, were some of the earliest nosegear jobs that I can remember.

October 29, 2007 at 12:50 pm in reply to: What was really wrong with the Supermarine Swift? #1302710

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Swift in Squadron service.

We had Swifts on 56 Squadron in the ’50’s, the first squadron to be equipped with the aircraft. They had a bunch of teething problems. Power control problems etc.

I seem to recollect that they had the problem that when the guns were fired at altitude that the muzzle blast from the Adens caused the Avon compressor to stall. This was quite a problem for a high altitude fighter!

October 22, 2007 at 6:34 pm in reply to: Lavendon airfield? #1310995

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Lavendon airfield.

Have you tried under another name?
Airfields were not always known by the name of the nearest village if that name was close enough to another airfield name such as to create confusion. In this case Lavenham in Suffolk.
I lived in the area during the war years and the only one I recollect in the area was at Denton, just a few miles up the road towards Northampton and that was a Relief Landing Ground used by the Sywell aircraft.

August 25, 2007 at 6:44 pm in reply to: Wartime use of primer in British factories #1288809

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Paint colours.

I seem to recollect that the earlier zinc chromates were a much yellower colour.

NA 337 rear fuselage and rear bay areas were not painted, they were bare metal, but we elected to paint them aluminum. The interiors of the wings were finished a greenish colour, might have been a zinc chromate.

Original paint in the Cockpit area? I cannot say, I did not work on that end! They are greenish right now.

August 14, 2007 at 11:06 pm in reply to: Does anyone know what happened to the Raf forum? #1301613

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Victor accident at Hamilton

Hi Peter,
Now you have got my attention! Where is this thread about the Victor prang at Hamilton?

I was Air Boss at that show and am interested in the sequence as we were told very little ‘officially’.

August 4, 2007 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Need some help with Halifax hydraulics. #1313855

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Halifax Hydraulics.

Hi Cees,

Yes, I could take some shots of our problem areas.That might help us!

We have installed video cameras at various locations throughout the aircraft, Pilot’s cockpit, Rear Turret, Center fuselage etc. This will allow the public to view the interior without the potential for damage to the aircraft or to them selves!

It is a bit disconcerting to hear the cameras scanning and zooming when you are working away at a tricky little problem, you also hope that no one has activated any microphones without telling you!

We have four viewing stations where the public can select the areas they want to view. No indication that they will ever allow Internet connections to the cameras.

August 2, 2007 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Need some help with Halifax hydraulics. #1315535

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Halifax Hydraulics.

Hi Cees,
Yes, you are quite correct. However, we started the project in the summer of ’95 with loads of enthusiasm and too many volunteer workers, generally skilled workers with military maintenance skills, working on too many parts without close oversight over a period of some 13 years! And with no Curatorial oversight!

Since I had been exposed to some restoration work at Canadian Warplane Heritage I tried to get them to photograph and tag everything and much of it was both tagged and photographed, but, over the years, the tags came off and the volunteer workers came and went and their work spaces were cleaned out and the remaining parts thrown on a shelf with similar parts.

The photographs now number in the thousands but they were never sorted out to enable them to be used as a reference.

I also tried to get all new parts that had to be made to replace corroded parts stamped as “Fabricated during restoration by the RCAFM” and the date. Everyone thought I was nuts!

However, replacing the original hydraulic piping and all the valves was never in the original plans. Nor was replacing the wiring! So I guess no one bothered too much about the associated parts.

I mean, how on earth could we lose the parts of an elevator trim position indicator, that was recently broken!

Why can’t everyone be perfect like you and I!!!;)

August 2, 2007 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Need some help with Halifax hydraulics. #1316315

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Halifax Hydraulics

Thanks guys, all good ideas.

I had forgotten that Hendon’s W1048 would probably still have them in place, hopefully in a photograph-able state.

Yes, we do have a “Halifax Explored” somewhere in the group. I must see if I can borrow it.

If PN 323’s cockpit does go back that far, I might be able to get someone at IWM to take a picture for us.

Actually I think the valves are in the shop but I do not know quite what I am looking for! I did find a connected pair of simple 3 way valves which could be two of the missing items and they are the current candidates for being installed in the space that Cees has described.

A photo from the past would be ideal but the valves are not in an often photographed area.

Cees, With regard to Elvington, were you not planning a vist to take some pictures? Maybe you could add one more to the list.

(Cees, your drawing was sent a week ago.)

Thanks again, guys.

July 22, 2007 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Anyone out there with firsthand knowledge of skinning an Anson? #1327139

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Anson tailplane rebuild.

Thanks Mark, the pics should help a lot.

I will take them to the shop and ask if there is anything further that they require.

Cypherus – We agree with your second para, that would have been the way we expected that it would be done. Failing that the method described in para 3 would have the the fallback, but it seems likely that it was done by tacking and glueing and then sanding it down to a smooth transition.

We can do it either way, we would just like to be authentic.

Richard – Yes we do have the complete airframe and we are currently re-building the tailplane as a prelude to re-building the wing. The 60 foot spar table is in place. It looks like nothing from the original tailplane will be reusable and very little from the wing with the exception of the metal fittings.

Wolfgang – We are pretty close to the Carlaws at Campbellford.

Thanks everyone for your efforts, I will pass it along to the wood butchers.

Deryck

July 3, 2007 at 1:43 pm in reply to: Anyone out there with firsthand knowledge of skinning an Anson? #1253623

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Anson Tailplane photos

Mark, were you able to get any decent pictures of the tailplane you have?

Thanks Mark.

Deryck

July 2, 2007 at 11:37 pm in reply to: Blind Landing Vulcan (old thread) #1254455

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Blind Landing Vulcan.

A friend of mine, Bob Westley, was involved with the BLEU for many years. I checked his log books and he had something like 600 blind landings. He would go from the Vulcan to the Canberra on the same day.

He was not the pilot, he was the boffin.

He lives outside of Ottawa and still visits England regularly.

June 30, 2007 at 5:06 pm in reply to: Anyone out there with firsthand knowledge of skinning an Anson? #1256950

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Anson plywood covering.

Thanks guys,

That should be enough info/leads to get us started.

Deryck

June 28, 2007 at 6:45 pm in reply to: RCAFM Museum – Halifax NA337 Interior #1258989

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OK, Cees, I will see what I can find.

The cockpit area was not in too bad a shape so we may have been able to just clean the bits up and restore them, so this means that we may not have any drawings either.

If Harry can’t find them they probably do not exist!

I will not be back there until next week.

Incidentally, we did contact the supplier of the Lanc. ammo trays and the company that roll formed them for the supplier has gone belly up but the supplier does have some roll formed material on the shelf! So this might work out OK.

Deryck

June 27, 2007 at 8:53 pm in reply to: NAFM Canada/RCAFM Museum Restoration Projects #1260120

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Dear Old Annie!

The Anson was about a 1936 acquisition by the RAF. It was the first monoplane acquired by the RAF and the first RAF aircraft with a retractable undercarriage.

In Britain the Annie was used for coastal patrol, but not for long, as it was overtaken by progress.

The Anson in Canada was used strictly as a training aircraft, some for pilot training and some for Nav and wireless training. The training of gunners was soon dropped as the basic manually operated turret and handheld weapon in the Anson had bore no resemblance to any other turret in use at the time, most of which were power operated.

We are about to do some skinning of tail surfaces and we are mystified as to how the 1.5mm (1/16″) ply skin was terminated at the leading and trailing edges. We have a streamlined solid wood leading edge and similar trailing edge. Common sense would dictate that the exposed edge of the ply should not be exposed to the airflow, but the drawings we have do not indicate that any recess was called for in the leading or trailing edges in which to terminate the ply. Anyone out there with any experience or access to any information on the subject?
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