what bits do you need we have a few canopies with one side or other broken so you would have to strip them out yourself.Not an easy jobif you have ever done one.

Mike E

XG743 restoration project.

thanks for the photo mark 12

We are on the doorstep and know this aircraft very well.

Perhaps an on forum syndicate could buy the aircraft or contribute

like the 748 at Liverpool.

She is far from being a potential flyer ,she has a good few none standard bit and pieces and

she was not in fantastic condition.

Mike E

I wonder if he knew someone in North Yorkshire?

That person I understand is out on a good boy license and is down south somewhere as he is not permitted to return
currently to his mothers old house and the place where the incidents he was locked up for took place.

A good bit of his stuff was seized and locked up by the crash and smash team from the MOD as he apparently
did not have much in the way of permits or licenses to recover and some of the stuff he had that had deactivation
certificates for had in fact been re activated. Some of his stuff did not get seized and apparently
disapeared to places elsewhere I know some of his cockpits got re allocated or sold and we where offered two of
them including a Vampire but believe this ended up being scrapped because he wanted silly money.
It would be nice to know what happened to the rest of the Wellington stuff he had to go with the stuff
at East Kirkby as it would go a long way to 60-70% of a whole aircraft being available for a rebuild project.

Besides the other allegations against him some of it was very scary apparently live explosives etc.

I dont know the full details so dont think I will comment further but sadly there are some rather less
than honest individuals still lurking aorund the artifacts world as thefts from museums and collections
in the uk during the last twelve months proves.

Mike E

The Gauntlet one looks fairly original the Spitfire one not so sure about ??.

I am no expert on documents others on here far more qualified.

The P6 compass was also used in the Westland Whirlwind fighter.

But we have one thanks but not sure if the guys want a spare.

Mike E
Whirlwind fighter project.

The Pilots loved the aircraft but the fitters thought it was a little sod to work on in some respects
as Petter used some very advanced ideas for controls.One being the method of pitch change by
throttling up and down to acheive the settings as no direct selection was in place.
The rather risky idea on the early aircraft to direct the exhaust through a duct passing vis the wing fuel tanks
( abandoned after some rather nasty accidents)

One very time consuming construction method we understand from information passed down from production line workers was the method of forming the rear fuselage.It is constructed from magnesium alloy planks,these planks being it is understood hand formed over a large section of steam pipe using hot sand bags.This method of production to make the 116 airframes built was amazing but also perhaps answers the problems with production time for each aircraft.

Mike E

Hmm,

Lets be careful here – I suspect that the two companies are not linked. I also don’t want to cast aspersions on anybody without proof.

Bruce

Was there not a similar company operating with a different name who was using other peoples projects as examples of their work when it wasnt ?? some of our projects and the Malta Museum ones being just an example.I have looked at their site at Tallyho and it seems that U Tube has terminated their links and film footage because of and I quote so there is no misunderstanding ” Numerous complaints about copyright infringements”I would suggest folks visiting their site make up their own minds. Yes the three projects mentioned are registered under G-INFO to another organisation and I wonder if the same has happened to them and they dont yet realise their pictures are being used ??,But that is purely a personal opinion and possible suggestion.

Mike E

http://www.aircraftrestorationgroup.org