Hello, I have been asked to put a post saying that the Comet project now has a Facebook page. Not being well up on computers I don’t know how to go direct to it but if you go on the Comet web site which is http://www.cometracer.co.uk there is a direct link from the front page.

Ken

Ken you can only see it if you’e a farcebook user – which not everybody is – or wants to be. Other sites I have seen don’t require you to sign up – I wonder if the settings could be changed.

Erm -I didn’t comment on Mike’s post as it’s clearly tongue in cheek!

As to your ideas of welding- filling and patching . It depends what standard you want to work to !

Bluebird/Barracuda standards – only the best

…cough cough…P-40, Beaufort, Hudson…

Particularly with the Beaufort and P40 – wasn’t that the way they were received – restoration was undertaken by a third party as part of the swap. I suspect they would be to very different standards if restored in house by RAFM – but then we’d probably still be waiting. – which takes us in a circular argument back to where we started.

I personally would love to see a turreted Hudson, rather than just a turret plonked in front of the airframe or a Beaufighter with a restored interior etc etc – the list goes on

Jeepman -indeed it could however why not repair it to the same standard it was built ! We have a little more time now and rivetting a repair to the correct spec isnt rocket science!

DB – before you take a patronising pop at me – you might spend a bit of time re-reading posts 74 75 and 76 above – as it was not I who was suggesting that the Ventura be repaired with some angle iron or some pieces of 4×2. I had suggested that the Ventura was repaired to approved standards and the comment about the Hampden skin being repaired was intended to simply underline and highlight the RAFM commitment to do things properly when it was within their ability so to do. Having said that, presumably you are not criticising this sort of patching work done on the Barracuda – or are you?

My proposal is for the completion of the Supermarine Southampton by building some wings for her. At present she just looks like a big boat with a tail not the majestic air yacht she could be.

Hasn’t it always been said that there were no surviving drawings for the Southampton wings – which was the (convenient given the cost/workload) reason for their continued absence.

I seem to recall that the Ventura is not the easy restoration it seems – haven’t the spars been cut or something similar – although as a static presumably there must be an approved repair scheme. At the time of it’s acquisition, I’ve also heard mention of the point made above that it salted away because of where it came from – it was of course acquired before the emergence of the Rainbow Nation

Thankyou David. Just seems like a neat idea. A Siskin recreation (wooden fuselage variant) similar to say the Dolphin that the RAFM produced, using whatever authentic parts available. Shouldn’t be too difficult and would fill a significant ‘hole’ in the RAFM collection
Bill

Perhaps they could let someone else build it and swap it for a Spitfire instead

Also my vote would go to the Maryland picture in the new Classic Wings it has to be recovered.

Tell me more – it’s not in the Sahara is it………………

One one of the NZ forums, I read that the Subritzky Vincent was rumoured to be destined for the RAFM – but then so was the P-40, A-20 Big Nig and one of the Il-2s currently under restoration at Wickenby.