Now this guy in the pub last night dont quote me like but straight up he is dead on .He was telling me about these old aeroplanes down a mine shaft somewhere in Asia and some buried in a crate in Australia. Really I says never heard of that right on he says so it must be right !!!!!.Then there is this other one he is telling me about some American fellas have found or they think they have or at least a friend of a friend of a mate of theirs says that they have !!!

Really ???????;);););)

Hey this has got some aviation content Allegedly ?????

Hi Guys

If I may put my input in as the project leader and also the person behind the web site.

Some of the points raised so far have some merit and will be considered but there has also been some comments about not being able to access stuff and people being dissapointed that we are not sharing material.

Can I just clarify a major point please.

We have built up over time a good working relationship with Augusta Westland and this involves a certain amount of trust on their part.Not many companies will give you unlimited access to their archives we have earned this trust and on certain proviso’s.

1) What ever we build does not fly.

2) we do not share,publish or distribute for gain or otherwise material obtained from AW for the project without their express permission.

The latter is the main one the jargon basically means that they do not want us putting stuff on the web site tomorrow and the next day its on a dvd and for sale on ebay from some one only interested in making a fast buck and not interested in the least in the project.

Thanks guys for your continued interest when a project such as this gets started their is an awful lot of information to be collected,collated and researched before it makes startling progress.Members of the site get access to special offers and discounts on whirlwind related items and also where possible we direct serious researchers to material we can share and to AW for their permission for material we do not have permission to share.Also to point out nearly 50% of the material we have so far has not come from AW but from other national collections and archives again with copyright and none disclosure agreements.

There are a number of excellent detailed books on the Whirlwind for modellers and very shortly a new release book will be hitting the market based on 10 years of research on the type.

Mike E

http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

Beech C45

We have tried off and on for two months plus to get a response re the Beech and to make offers but no one seems interested at the other end as they do not respond.So I would not hold your breath for anything ending up as other then tin cans.
This aircraft was once well known on the show circuit as Southern Comfort and used to be maintained at any expense by the owner based in Hollywell.Very sad if this old lady follows the catalina we would deifnately find a home for her but no one will speak to anyone.Perhaps they cant be bothered and just going through the motions.

mike E

Malta

Final reminder if there is anyone who needs a photo of the final resting place of a loved one or friend in Malta we leave in 7 days time so please let me have your request asap.

Mike E

http://www.aircraftrestorationgroup.webs.com

http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

space

Its not a critisism but felt we where a bit out of the way .I know it was our first time and the Kraguj is not exactly small and with our display stand it made us a bit of a mix between cockpit display and aerojumble.

perhaps if we had been more onto the end towards the aerojumble we may have been slightly better.I know the weather was really crap but i think we saw a total of twelve people on Saturday. A great even and we certainly will be bringing something next year.Some very worthy winners of the trophies an injustice if the Phantom cockpit and the P51 hadn’t won very well done.

Perhaps an idea has thought been given to perhaps moving the three aircraft from the end of hangar two to the side and then that would give more room for the cockpits to be displayed and also give the aerojumble access direct with the cockpits and still preserve a big part of the over flow car park ?. It seems for the event that a large area behind hangar two was dead when it could easily have been utilised the only things in it appeared to be a couple of glider trailers and a pair of wings?.

Great event.

Mike E

http://www.aircraftrestorationgroup.webs.com

Final Approach

The Kraguj is all loaded and ready to go just packing the trusty Discovery with all the other stuff.

Should be landing at Newark around 12.00 hrs tomorrow.

Mike E

http://www.aircraftrestorationgroup.webs.com

http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org