Same factory that built the steam powered Halifaxes as well? :rolleyes:

😀 😀 😀 😀

Cheers

Cees

I meant the turny thingy for the vacuum system :p

Very nice Peter!

I would love to build a Whitley panel. I just don’t know where to find the instruments…

Cheers,

Todd

😮 😮

There are many sources where you can find instruments, It just takes some training and effort to do so. How about e-bay :rolleyes:

Cheers

Cees

You just gotta find someone with the a) money, b) equipment, and c) balls to go look for them!

I’ve got one but not the other – see if you can guess which… 😉

I think the sequence is wrong

a) you need the balls to go look for them and the other problems can be solved depending how willing/mad you are. For instance the Greenland P-38 is a good example.

The photo’s Mark 12 posted also show without any doublt that rumours are to be followed up, no matter how strange they may be.

Remember the B-17 that was recovered from a Swiss Lake during the fifties? The wreck was finally scrapped in the seventies, but the engines, pilot seat, throttle quadrant, piece of fuselage skinning found their way in a dark basement in the centre of Amsterdam (famous for the lack of space there). One of our volunteers was approached by the owner who wanted to donate these items to our museum. The volunteer thought the man was off his rocker and steered him away. He then went to our collegues and the rest is history. The parts are now on show in their museum. This particular volunteer will be confronted with this until he is old and grey (and probably after that too).

The problem with discussing rumours is that they tend to get out of hand and before you know it a whole squadron of Lancasters is buried in a field somewhere or a (I thought it was a) white Spit is still flying in the outback,

Think and then have a look, I always enjoy following up these leads. Remember where there is smoke, there must be fire. 😉

Cheers

Cees

…what ever happened to this?

The inscription on the back of the print reads:-

‘September 1973. Lockheed Lodestar bellied in 50 miles N.W. of Yellowknife N.W.T., happened in about 1955.’

Not a side scan radar shot but a grossly enlarged portion of the air to ground print on the textured paper of the time

Mark

Hi Mark,

This aircraft was recovered and as far as I know is now under restoration to airworthy condition in Canada. I believe this is the only Canadian Ventura that’s left. I have an article of an Air Classic special about Ghost Warbirds and there this aircraft was reported on in detail.

Mmm, just got back from a short holiday and I am still sifting through all those pages you managed to fill the past five days.

Cheers

Cees

Peter,

If you mean LW170 then I am going to have to hate you (is this english?) 😀

You lucky b…… err man 😎

We’ll see :rolleyes:

Cheers

Cees

I knew he was after a lancaster panel and kind of figured he would be expanding into a cockpit section eventually! i wonder what scheme he will paint it up as… if he gets it

Isn’t that how it always starts. Something like:

Hey, why don’t I collect some instruments to make a nice instrument panel. Before you know it, you are hooked and something like a cockpit section is beginning to evolve. I started out that way too.

So Peter, prepare yourself for some serious Halifax cockpit building time 😀

I have been in contact with Graham in the past and with very good results, so I hope that he eventually succeeds in building a cockpit section.

Thanks Mark for your views regarding e-bay, of course it has it’s good points and you should be sure what you wish to spend, but there are items put on e-bay where the description Spitfire or Lancaster is enough to send prices through the roof, even if it is just a general item. Apart from serious collectors who are restoring or rebuilding things or trying to make a nice collection there are also people after easy money, but that has always been the case so nothing new here. :rolleyes:

Cheers

Cees