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November 17, 2004 at 6:05 am in reply to: D.H.98 Mosquito Photo's Please, Just Because I love looking at them. #1424458

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As the Comet is the DH88 and the Mossie the DH98 it’s a fair bet. 😀

November 17, 2004 at 5:59 am in reply to: WWII Aviation Pubs (2004 thread) #1424463

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Years ago there was a pub in Kingswood, Kent called the Battle of Britain. Apart from the name I don’t know of any links but the place infuriated me as the roundel on the sign was a French one.

November 17, 2004 at 4:05 am in reply to: Packard vs. Rolls-Royce #1424502

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An excellent read and an amazing man. Extremely clever and right place right time, a couple of times. Even to modern times, the current worldwide success of the RB211 series engines could be put down to his (in conjunction with other retired RR engineers) redesign.

November 17, 2004 at 3:40 am in reply to: Packard vs. Rolls-Royce #1424525

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As an aside, Ford also completely re-drew the Merlin to much tighter tolerances. They said the original tolerances were far too loose for successful mass production. It took a year.
Source: Stanley Hooker – Not Much of an Engineer.

November 15, 2004 at 8:45 pm in reply to: Castle Bromwich Spitfire factory ?? #1426854

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Just been speaking to a Brummie (Walsall, actually but close) in the local and apparently Hams Hall is still there, but is now gas-fired.

Had a quick flick through Sigh for a Merlin and the original plan was for runways (plural at least) and perimeter track. Ended up with “tarmac roadway and 400 to 500 yards of runway”.

November 15, 2004 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Castle Bromwich Spitfire factory ?? #1427280

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It’s been years since i’ve read the book but was it Alex or Jeffrey Quill that said in bad weather they could still find their base because the thermals emitted from a chimney disturbed the clouds and gave an indication of where they were.
Sorry if it’s slightly off topic but i did wonder if this was there,Ta 😮

Alex Henshaw – Sigh for a Merlin. Hams Hall power station, IIRC.

It’s been a while since I read it, too, but I suspect there was never much to see in the way of airfield structures. They wanted to build huge runways for Lancaster testing, at great expense and inconvenience. At Alex Henshaw’s suggestion, they ended up with only one 400 yard runway.

November 13, 2004 at 8:37 pm in reply to: The 2004 thread – MB-5 replica #1430009

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If I were a Director of Martin Baker, I would be instructing my lawyers to make very, very sure that the name ‘Martin Baker’ is never used in any way, shape or form in connection with this contraption.

Quite the opposite, there’s a link to it on the Martin Baker website.

November 12, 2004 at 1:51 pm in reply to: DH goblin #1431470

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It looks as if Halton – who I think designed the Goblin…

Major Frank Halford

November 11, 2004 at 6:05 pm in reply to: DH goblin #1432175

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I’ve never heard of any of the Bluebirds being powered by a Goblin – seems unlikely. It would have to have been a boat as the cars were wheel-driven, Proteus I think on the last one.
Prototype Meteor (F9/40?) was powered by the Halford H.1 which became the Goblin, other than that I believe it’s only the Vampire.
Vague memories – XP59?

November 10, 2004 at 3:16 am in reply to: British aircraft manufacturers during the war #1434149

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Shortly after he died the company went into liquidation. Had something to do with politics I understand.

Cees

IIRC, when the government insisted on the mass mergers, HP refused. The government said “No merger, no contracts”.

November 9, 2004 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Vulcan windows #1434977

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IIRC it was for nuclear flash reasons.

November 9, 2004 at 4:42 pm in reply to: British aircraft manufacturers during the war #1434980

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Of the big names, several were still in charge. They almost certainly had shareholders to consider but Sir TOM Sopwith controlled Hawker, the White family controlled Bristol and Geoffrey de Havilland and Frederick Handley Page still headed their respective organisations.

November 9, 2004 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Heritage Lottery Fund – 10 Years On #1435003

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I’m not denying it does its’ job Steve, I just think it could have been better.

If interesting is one of the desired qualities. look at the link I posted to Cosford. It’s interesting, highly suitable and environmentally friendly.
What they’re getting is all strange angles and an architects flight of fancy.
Also note that the page is still up, over a year (I think) after the other buiding was approved.

Sorry, got on my soapbox and gone off topic here.

I’ll get me coat…

November 9, 2004 at 3:47 pm in reply to: Heritage Lottery Fund – 10 Years On #1435099

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I agree that it wasn’t a bad contribution, although it pales into insignificance against the £73 million (?) the Royal Opera House got and, if what I read yesterday is correct, the £449 million on the South Bank tent.

However the AAM is what I’m on about. Somebody was really impressed with the fancy design but I’m sure a simpler building would have been cheaper and more suitable.

November 9, 2004 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Heritage Lottery Fund – 10 Years On #1435113

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No we haven’t!
Dome, Opera houses….

(mutter, mutter, mutter)

I agree hangarage is the first priority. Unfortunately, idiot architects and style gurus think that fancy (expensive) buildings, even for keeping aeroplanes in, are better than hangars. See AAm and the new development at Cosford for examples.
This: http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/aboutus/building.cfm is what Cosford wanted.
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