Beautiful aircraft awful paintjob (especially the interior green), but a magnificent achievement anyway. Top marks for bringing back the Hampden.
Would make a nice example for East Kirkby and the RAF Museum to follow on.
Give them all the help they can.

Cheers

Cees

Was it on the ally sheet cees or on a casting?

Elliott,

On the sheetmetal cover only and the stamps were all over the place

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Cees

Moggy,

It doesn’t look to be wartime but if it is, 52 is the prefix for the HP Hampden.

My first impression though was Hawker Hunter.

Just a guess

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Cees

I wasn’t involved in ‘finding’ them, but at Skysport we had a couple of gems which turned up out of the blue.

First one was a stash of Bristol Hercules cowl gill rings which were discovered buried in a scrapyard. By the time I’d finished with them we’d got two and a bit engine’s worth of airworthy goers, and had also managed to supply the Nanton Halifax boys with some nut plates suitable for their static.

Second one was an old rusted Beaufighter cockpit frame which on closer inspection yielded an early gunsight arm, correct for our Mark 1F, and when treated and inspected, it was also found to be a goer for the aeroplane.

Always felt rather special to have been involved in bringing a bit back from the dead as it were. 🙂

Ahem,

Trenton Steve.

I knew you wanted me to correct this :p

Cees

Steve,

That’s fantastic news,

Cheers

Cees

Mike
This doesn’t sound like SX336 to me.

Cees
There have been ‘jigging problems’ with both RX168 and PP972. I favour the latter for your Warbirds World Wide shot but you would have to direct me to the issue for 100% confirmation.

Mark

Mark,

I would have to dig out the issue when I get home from work but IIRC the shot was taken from the rear of the starboard side with the fuselage formers and stringers in yellow primer. I seem to remember that Ralph Hull was working on it as well, or it was his workshop the photograph was taken.

These jigging problems were they caused by the same jig?

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Cees

Did I say sixteen? Probably nearer…

Ah ‘slow time projects’ – a new category definition.

‘RX168’ – a very impressive collection/kit, with most of the ‘tricky’ engineering bits acquired and restored. I saw it fully laid out in plan form for inspection at the back end of last year. It could well be on the move in the short to middle term.

Mark

Mark,

Isn’t this the same airframe I saw a photograph of the jigged fuselage in a Warbirds World Wide issue many years ago? It looked well advance then. Or is this a mix up with PP972?

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Cees

Looks like it, but the pitch can be set at the desired angle anytime. The propblades for the A VII are a bit longer and broader at the root than normal Hally’s.

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Cees