might seem a silly question but a genuine one. talking of Mosquito’s do we know any current status of the attempt to build/rebuild such an aircraft in the UK ??. I don’t seem to be able to find any current reference to the project.Last i recall was being involved with the indepth exchanges re the merits of the projects materials,source of aircraft to rebuild,the CAA’s view of the project how it was going to be done to conform etc,etc,etc.

Apart from some of the scurrilous comments and mutterings the thread did have a lot of serious input but I might be wrong but did we not ruffle feathers because of our input and even the constructive comments from those with experience and in the know ??.

Is it another subject that the persons involved seem over sensitive and have become a club of recluse’s I am sure the input for the most part was well meant.

Mike E

http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

as I understand it if the previous ones are anything to go by its a shame they are unable to fly in Europe or for that matter the UK because of changes they have made to the material specs and glues used in the rebuild process.thus making it technically a new design aircraft. Other than that I would think the price is not to far off the mark if it could fly in the UK.

Mike E

I guess the Hunter owner isn’t in any rush – somewhat defeats the arguement however by repeatedly advertising it if he isnt!

if I m not mistaken he has also put the price back up by £5k.

By the time he has finished he will probably have spent a fortune on advertising before it clicks it cant be returned to the air there is no paperwork and no engine spares and very little chance of anyone giving him that sort of money for a static museum display.

Of course it was not the only incident as I think it was either a Shackleton or a Lincoln that was shot down around or just post Berlin airlift.

Mike E

Eh? How much!?!?! 😮 😮

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lancaster-Operations-One-Squadrons-Contribution-to-the-Bomber-Offensive-/321288569874?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item4ace4a8412

Perhaps its the only copy in existence or it has gold leaf on every page and a tooled leather binding ??. But I very much doubt it on all counts perhaps he has just put the full stops in the wrong place and its $41.60

The Hunter is a Sapphire powered example – so any ideas of putting it anywhere in the air is a non starter.

The seller does not seem to understand the relevance of paperwork etc he claims there are lots of sapphires in Australia and as the aircraft has cold war history its worth a fortune at least he has lowered his price to £45,000. Like you I will wait to it comes down to sensible levels and the seller comes out of his hallucinations stage and gets into the real world. Sadly I can see him ultimately chopping it up and selling the cockpit section off or trying to for daft money. Good for the cockpit collectors I suppose but not for what the aircraft really needs a good home for such a significant airframe but as usual the seller does not understand the realities of paperwork value verses value with just history and a nice paint job.I have lots of pics including the cockpit area that is complete if anyone wants to try to talk him into the real world but best of British.

Switches from left to right on bottom row are as follows in our T22 at least.

On
@
PITOT
HEAD

ON

@

NAV
LIGHTS

SUNNY

@

CLOUDY

NOSE
FUSED

@

SAFE

TAIL
FUSED

@

SAFE

PORT
SELECT

@

OFF

STBD
SELECT

@

OFF

RPS

@

SINGLE
&
SALVO

ON

@

CAMERA

CAMERA
TEST

@—–@

NORMAL

RPS
SALVO

@

PAIRS

MASTER SWITCH RP
TO BE KEPT AT OFF

@ OFF

BOMBS EXCEPT
WHEN AIRBOURNE

Hope these help

Mike E

XG743 restoration project

http://www.aircraftrestorationgroup.org

I will look at see if they are in our lady in the morning for you Bruce

but as our T22 has been modified in the past for chase and prototype stuff

not sure if it will be the same. Give me a ring about lunch time and I will

let you know also helps me not to forget to look.