Am I allowed to say try a certain book on the type by a certain author that has LOTS of build pictures in it?:rolleyes:

GORDY…. I can easily run off ‘replicas’ at cost (I can bind a3 as A4 folded) if anyone wants them, but I’m not going to do so without your permission!

Besides, what would a B-29 or a TU-4, be doing in Africa? You’d have more luck finding a Stirling in China.

Or Spitfires in Burma?

The Berlin Airlift by Robert Jackson, Patrick Stephens Ltd 1988 ISBN 0-85059-881-8

All credit to those who are financing these projects…. deH 86 Express anyone….????

Planemike

Myself, Sir Adrian Swire and Viv Bellamy were working on building a DH86 in the early 1990s – with metal and timber being cut – but the project slowly ground to a halt. Mike Russell and others were also considering a DH86 around ‘project X’ – a DH86 centre-section that survives(d) but nothing came of it. I still am holding out hopes, because I do know there is a complete set of manufacturing drawings out there – perhaps a job for New Zealand!?

In a similar vein, I was hearing rumours at OW on sunday that ‘maybe’ the Avro Tutor and Hawker Tomtit could be ‘exchanged’ for other things that include the LVG?

Since ‘skyshooter’ clearly refuses to believe what he is being advised here, I went back to some of my primary source documentation I used in my Pen & Sword book on the XB-70, viz: ‘B-70 Aircraft Study Final Report Volumes 1-4’ produced by L J Taube, Study Manager, North American Rockwell, dated April 1972. This is a massive work, totally well over 2000 pages.

Within Volume 3 SD72–SH-0003, pages III-161, III-162, there is a description of the airframe and wing structure, which I have scanned and attached. Although details are on both pages, the key part is on page 162, and I quote: ‘The dihedral of the wing on air vehicle No.2 was 5 degrees while air vehicle No.1 had a dihedral of zero degrees. (This was a development change which occurred too late to incorporate on air vehicle No.1’
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I’ve seen colour pictures of him being interviewed just after the war, and his uniform looks a much more light blue than this – just a comment!