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  • February 6, 2008 at 4:24 pm in reply to: General Discussion #352670
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    No contest…

    February 6, 2008 at 4:24 pm in reply to: Best cars you've owned #1917449
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    No contest…

    January 30, 2008 at 9:26 pm in reply to: 1954 Canberra crash #1285451
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    Sorry, trying to be too clever.
    I saved the link to my hard drive for reference. There wasn’t a lot of point in posting a link to my D drive so I clicked “previous thread” and edited the result.

    Wrongly…

    This should work
    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13254&goto=nextoldest

    January 30, 2008 at 3:24 pm in reply to: 1954 Canberra crash #1285987
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    No photographs but I mentioned it here approaching 5 years ago. However I understood all the crew were killed.

    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13254

    January 25, 2008 at 11:26 am in reply to: Javelin vs Sea Vixen #1292731
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    I must have missed the post regarding a mightier engine.

    More what ifs…

    If BEA hadn’t insisted on DH redesigning the Trident, the Medway would probably have been approaching production status at around the time the FAW.2 was being developed. The most powerful dry Spey hadn’t got much more grunt than the 11,250 lbs of the Avon 208s used in the FAW.2. The Medway was supposed to start at approaching 14,000 lbs.

    January 24, 2008 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Westland Whirlwind Fighter #1293724
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    Opposite rotating props. Not with an idler gear, the whole engine rotated in the opposite direction. Rolls-Royce never did that again – it seems it wasn’t one of their better ideas.

    January 22, 2008 at 3:59 am in reply to: The Demise Of The TSR.2 (merged) #1296599
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    Info from Barry Hygate’s British Experimental Jet Aircraft.

    The tail surfaces were all slab type. The horizontal surfaces controlled the aircraft in roll and pitch and were called tailerons. When the flaps were lowered they shielded the tail sufaces requiring too much taileron deflection so the “elevators” were unlocked deflecting upwards only to trim the aircraft in pitch.

    The flaps were blown, which I had known but forgotten. The book appears to be saying only the inboard section was blown which may explain the apparent split. There’s a small photograph on the same page showing XR220 at Cosford with the flaps slightly lowered and, if they are in two parts, they’ve both moved the same amount.

    January 19, 2008 at 12:39 am in reply to: Best Preserved Airfield? #1300007
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    As several have already said, Davidstow Moor is largely untouched. It’s too far away from everywhere for it to be worth collecting hardcore and the ground is so poor it’s only marginally better than the runways anyway.

    Strangely, three Formula 1 (-ish) races were run there around 1950. Bernie reckons Silverstone is bad to get to…

    I’d be very sorry to se it covered by a wind farm.

    BTW, is it me or is the forum running in geological time these days? Slow is a major understatement.

    January 16, 2008 at 3:41 pm in reply to: Wakefield Cup #1303115
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    More here…

    http://www.btinternet.com/~kaynes/Wakebook/intro.htm

    and here, about halfway down the page:

    http://www.btinternet.com/~kaynes/Wakebook/foreword.htm

    January 16, 2008 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Wakefield Cup #1303294
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    If you go to this page: http://www.btinternet.com/~kaynes/Wakebook/ch01.htm

    It says that the original Wakefield Cup was last won by your uncle and, by inference, it hasn’t been seen since.

    The BMFA are still the SMAE. BMFA was thought to be more accessible for day-to-day use but I think it sounds a lot less important than the Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.

    January 16, 2008 at 10:57 am in reply to: Questions on Spitfire Propellers (merged) #1303490
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    I wasn’t suspecting chipboard. 🙂

    I just had a vague memory of hearing the name Airscrew-Weyroc and put 2 and 2 together to come up with a potential 4…

    January 16, 2008 at 12:33 am in reply to: A late xmas present for Mk12 #1303712
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    At first sight, the metal does not appear to be from a Spitfire.

    Mark

    At first sight, it looks galvanised…

    January 15, 2008 at 1:15 pm in reply to: Questions on Spitfire Propellers (merged) #1304667
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    Weybridge blades – Weyroc?

    January 9, 2008 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Which Aircraft Would You Like to Own if You Had an Infinite Budget? #1311667
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    Princess
    Spruce Goose
    B-36

    Nothing like thinking BIG Alexis. 😀

    December 21, 2007 at 7:16 pm in reply to: New Merlins #1242530
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    Ford did redraw the Merlin. (Sir) Stanley Hooker said they came to him saying they couldn’t build them because the tolerances were too wide. He had expected the opposite reason. 🙂
    In his words “it took them a year and after that they came out like shelling peas, and very good engines they were”.

    From “Not Much Of An Engineer”.

    I find it hard to believe Packard engines were AF as opposed to BSW/BSF when they’d gone to all the trouble of making British taps and dies.
    I’ve heard before that the Packard toolkit was extremely comprehensive and of superb quality compared to what came with a Rolls-Royce engine.

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