Spiderman!

A bit off thread, but can I just add my ‘welcome back to the Forum Keithmac’ tuppence.

To those who don’t know, Keithmac has in the past contributed some fascinating and very helpful threads on matters mechanical (with diagrams) to help enthusiastic numptys like me. Keithmac, your threads were appreciated and missed!!

Keithmac attended the Scottish Forum meetup and gave an excellent presentation on the Tornado , I know he has a “Big Bristols” presentation – be nice to see during the next meetup – maybe when Setter is over here ??

We had considerable discussion on this subject about a year to 18 months ago. Having worked on both types of engine I can assure you that a properly maintained sleeve valve engine is just as reliable as any poppet valve engine, and you don’t have to check and reset valve clearances every couple of hundred flying hours! Checking and resetting valve clearances on a radial engine is one of the most time consuming and tedious jobs an engine fitter has to do, and if you get it even a little bit wrong the performance of the engine suffers big time! Give me big Bristols any time!

Keith Mac – Ancient engine fitter!

Welcome back to the Forum Keith !!!

I just spotted the photos Melv , very nice – let us know how the engine runs come along , I hope you are going to scrub the mucky tyres :p . Is there an official first flight day yet ?? 🙂

How is she coming along Melv ?? , is the cowling on yet and can we expect a feature in one of the aviation mags soon ?? – or is there a book in the pipeline ??.

Al

I wonder if RadarArchive ( Ian ) is behind radarhist1 – looks like he bought a fair bit – if it is then its gone to a good home .