On the subject of Putnam books, my best bargain although not in Phil’s range, was Vols 1 and 3 of British Civil Aircraft from whenever. £8 the pair on Ebay, plus postage.
However, they had missing dust-jackets which is the main reason they were so cheap.
Although I’m not that bothered, as I want them to read and not look at, they do look a bit tatty on the shelf, especially in the middle of the other eight I’ve managed to acquire.
Has anybody with a scanner got copies and could scan the jackets in for me?
I assume they would need to be in two parts but I can always stitch them together. Although I don’t have an A3 printer I’ve a couple of mates that have so printing wouldn’t be a problem.

Absolute snip. Regularly £20 plus on Ebay, plus postage.

Rat.

No probs

I can’t think of a Merlin or Griffon ‘Pusher’ installation, but perhaps…

Mark

I can’t either. I would suspect it would entail a complete re-design of the reduction gearbox as all the thrust bearing faces would be in the wrong place.
I’m sure that’s right, so even if somebody wanted to use one in a pusher installation, they couldn’t even build, or more to the point, test a prototype before a re-design.
R-R were a little busy around that time. 🙂

Surely that means as opposed to pusher?

I think it’s the first Spitfire I saw in the wild, rather than museum-bound, too.
Elstree, mid-sixties.

There was an extremely long thread about this, last year IIRC. It was aimed more at the larger engines rather than the light aircraft engines and no firm conclusion was ever reached.
The UK, and international, standard is for a car engine crankshaft to rotate clockwise when viewed from the front. British light aircraft, radials and Merlins rotate the same way. Note this is crankshaft rotation, not necessarily propellor rotation.

Something has just dawned on me, which didn’t during the last thread. If we start with a car engine, the power take-off comes from the back of the engine, not the front. Turn it round and put a prop where the flywheel was and it will rotate anti-clockwise.
I think I’ll go and lie down for a while.

The Connie may have nominally been at Safi but was actually much nearer Luqa in a built-up area. Despite being a small island, Safi is out in the sticks. Our holiday rep, who was Maltese, was staggered when we said we’d been to Safi. She said would have had to ask directions on how to get there. We did 400 miles in a week, which takes some doing on an island that size!
There were several Caribou(s, x?) at Hal Far in 1988 when we were there.

There was an article in one of the mags a few years back about activities at Hal Far. IIRC, there is/was a company there overhauling radial engines.