No such engine. There was, however, a de Havilland Ghost.
Remember the Swift? When the guns were fired it disturbed the fuel air ratio through the engine.
Wasn’t that the Aden cannon gun-pack on the Hunter?
There’s no “thread subject” left. Sold. Scrapped.
This discussion is valid in it’s own right, whether it belongs here or not. The discussion about the Blackpool Vulcan is, like the aircraft, no more.
IIRC, Meteors weren’t allowed to cross the channel.
There’s even an engineering manual on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5653470685&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1
Elliot’s keeping an extremely low profile. Is it something we’ve said?
I’m not arguing Kev.
We two disagree about XH558 but this was always going to happen. I guess it passed the point of no return more than a few years ago.
I would have thought if they were planning on selling the engines, smashing the aircraft off them wasn’t an ideal way of removing them. No dig at the scrapmen, they bought it for scrap and that’s what it was.
I know it was inevitable but you REALLY don’t want to see them…
It’s the Rastacat from Duxford, now in white.
What a wonderful beast, I want one.
I didn’t get chance to see the original thread. Do I gather I missed something important?
I missed the first 20 minutes too, distracted by the pub down the road.
I was wrong, it was far better than I thought it might be.
A bit of a jump from the end of WW1 to the Stealth fighter though.
I wouldn’t have gone so far as to specify the number of minutes on each item but I have a nasty suspicion you’re likely to be right.
Having cunningly just looked at next weeks Radio Times 🙂 I now know it’s the first of a series of four. Next week it’s about bombers and the RT blurb mentions the B.17 and B.29 only.
I hope that’s not ominous.
Another one for spanner-wielders. A Deltic piston and rod assembly. The picture’s not great as the subject was in a glass display cabinet.