Yet again the UK goverment and its transient glove puppets are out to tar all with a single brush.

While I don’t have any de-activated guns (or live ones for that matter) I can see this idea causing a lot of trouble.

We carry out licenced excavation (under the Protection of Military Remains Act) and often find guns in varying states of dis-repair from almost perfectly straight to banana like 20mm cannons. At present we have to declare them to the local police and then have them deactivated. This included welding a rod into the barrel and also welding the breach. I would like to know how you go about reactivating that as the distortion caused by heat from a welding torch is enough to mean it could never be fully cleared of weld and damaged steel.

But then we can trust our elect representatives to make a mess of everything.

Don’t worry Alan, in The Netherlands it’s the same situation. Even if you find one corroded and banashaped machinegun, it’s illegal. The only way you could hurt yourself or others with it is when you accidentally drop it on your toes, but nevertheless.

Cheers

Cees

Perhaps that is why only one FW has left the ground so far. Let’s see what the future brings. Fingers crossed.
Suppose we are 200 years into the future and a major historic avaiation museum sturggles to keep their exhibits in good shape, the balance between original and replica would shift don’t you agree?

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Cees

The new year has started out great for the project.

This is the engine control box through which the push pull rods go towards the wings from the throttle box. On top of that the fairing which protects similar rods from the fuel cocks. This whole assembly fits on the back of the pilot’s bulkhead, which incidentally is the next (in this case) major project.

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Cees

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the valuable information you provide. This gives another view in the often one-sided opinions in books that most people take for granted and that are repeated over and over again.
Any story you wish to tell on this forum, feel free.
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Cees

Wow!:eek: 😮

Nice item

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Cees

Hi Tom,

Well, reason for my interest in the Halifax is that I am building a cockpitsection from scratch (see pics below) and I have a thing for all things HP built with the Halifax particular. I know the Halifax was very robust but in general Joe Public knows only about the Lancaster and Spitfire but other aircraft types are generally ignored or suffer from incorrect “myths”. The best information is from the “horse’s mouth” (you in this case ahum).

Can you tell us something about your training (did you fly Whitleys for instance) you opinion about the tailproblems the Halifax suffered in the early versions, performance and was there a sort of competition between Lancaster (you know, the Daily Mirror bomber) and Halifax crews?

Thanks for any insight you can give us to broaden our knowledge.

Cheers

Cees