Whirlwind

if you are thinking of a replica/reproduction, Peregrine engines are going to be a problem – I think Steve Vizard has cornered the market in available engines. They only built a relatively small number – hundreds rather than tens of thousands. The last survivor’s engines were used for propeller testing I think

In the days of the old WIX Whirlwind project I recall there was some debate about substituting modified Kestrels.

The rest of the structure seems relatively straightforward – the wing centre section seems to use the same profile all the way accross . Similar commonality in the aft fuselage IIRC

Wonder if G-AGOI still exists and if there’s anything else down there……..

UHU at NASM

there seems to be quite a bit of debate recently about its colours over on Hyperscale – particularly as the scheme seems to blow existing theories out of the water

Apparently the sqiggle overspay was the controversial light blue-green clour similar to Sky which nobody seems able to agree about – sometimes referred to as “RLM84” – some say it’s a proper RLM colour – for which all documentation has been lost – others say it’s a variation of an existing colour caused by shortages of raw products

that “84” has been replaced by 76 on the repaint, although apparently the wing root areas remain in their original finish – all other areas had been affected by a reaction between the original colours and american paints applied in the immediate post-war era

thought it was the Americans who took a couple of Renault FT17 back to the Patton Museum at Fort Knox

here in Worksop

there’s a new estate where every road is named after a WW2 British aircraft – no aviation connection that I’m aware of…………

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=458500&Y=382000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=pc&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=5000&left.x=4&left.y=141

The poster for the latest incarnation of a well known annual show involving the aerial perambulations of heavier-than-air machines of the aggressive variety (other airshows are available) shows a P-38

might this be TB’s or is it Glacier Girl?

and there’s more………….

three or four more German types to add, courtesy of the new Flypast

all at DTM Berlin

Pfalz DVIII D191/18 and the Jeannin Stahltaube A.180/14 used for recce in the first year of the war

there’s also a Halberstadt CLS.1 Fuselage and another Junkers J4 Fuselage 805/17 or 805/18

RF-C perhaps :diablo:

inspiration from an Airfix kit lid eh? Roy Cross’ artwork I believe – still one of the best.

shades of the RR Spitfire XIV being painted like the Frog kit – or is that apocryphal ?

Seriously – job’s a good’un – looking forward to seeing the whole airframe