Surprise surprise, it didnt sell, mind u neither did his Phantom Fin (Oh well wheres Phantom Phixer when u want him LoL)

Bex

Somebody mention me? 😀

Personally Bex there’s a few things Id rather spend £2K on than a Phantom Phin. Sorry.

£28,000 for an engineless Shar? They must be joking. Look at the sale prices qouted by BuccSociety in a recent thread for Buccanneers that have been sold of late. Albeit by disposal.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=73583

In Rugby at the minute (at work) and can hear the engines been ran up at Brunty. Wind must be blowing the right way or they are running them with the taps wide open. :diablo:

“sprung vertically upwards whilst the jet was inverted”

Maybe I have a differant image in mind to the one your describing but as the weapon falls away from the pylon as gravity takes effect would that not be impossible to do? :confused:

… From little acorns! 🙂

And in Bex case it will be………………………

grows a replica of a long lost Canberra variant. :p

The Canberra was a nice picture but for me the best picture at the show has to be this one below of a Dragon Rapide. The artist is Roger Murray. Very much in the style of the old railway posters. Now if only I had some spare money in the bank…………..

The same artists Hurricane was rather nice as well.

Pics taken from the Guilds www. Im sure they wont mind me posting them here 😀

http://www.gava.org.uk/

Let your fingers do the walking to the Sign Makers section in the Yellow Pages. These companies do the stickers that white van man and the like put onto their vans so can clearly print/cut to order.

Unsure what colour repro would be like on the colours for the roundals bit no reason why it shouldnt work. The Vampire has flush skins/rivets and the dayglo markings in service were large stickers anyway. 😀

Eyeball/ballpark guess: a 70% metal replica should come in at around 1100 – 1400 lbs empty weight. By comparison, it’s about the size, perhaps a little smaller, than an SF-260 which is about 1500 lbs with a max gross of around 2500 lbs.
If you build it to 2500 lbs you’ll never get it off the ground unless you shoehorn a real Merlin into it!
Size the spar. Then try to figure out how to build it. How can you decide on the construction/size without knowing what the loads are? Before you can size the spar you’re going to have to size the aircraft in order to obtain the wing span/area and wing loads.
Without doing that first, Tom, you’re going to be running around like a chicken with it’s head chopped off. Try starting from square one. I’d like very much to see you eventually not only build this replica, but to successfully get it off the ground.
BTW if it were me building it (which it ain’t) I’d be thinking of composites – fiberglass and carbonfiber.

Article about 80% Spitfire for inspiration:

That Spitfire is simply stunning. What plan is it from? They mention in the article they were thinking of making it available. Did they?

Here you go Peter this is a link to the Guilds website. If you click on the galleries section it will show you some of the great work done by the guilds artists. Some of which I think may possibly be at the event.

http://www.gava.org.uk/

Below is a link to the Midland Air Museums site that gives the dates and also some more up to date happenings at our lovely museum.

Many of the museum members are spending a lot of time preparing the Robin hanger for the display. Ive spent a couple of nights with a paint brush in hand already and I think a few more will be coming up for all involved.

http://www.midlandairmuseum.co.uk/events.php

Ps for those interested the monday to which Ben refers is invitation only. After that though all are welcome.