I think its a Hjordis made by Slingsby Sailplanes, and was the only one built

Ken

I have never seen any pictures of all the bits that John Pierce recovered from Portugal, I do know that some parts were lost when he had a fire at his place.
At the end of the video we are showing this weekend there is a TV interview with the previous owner of the parts, Nick Hemmings, where he shows the project all laid out and describes his plans for it. He coudnt get the funding which is how we managed to get it.

I have a cutting from Aeroplane from June 1988 which does show the project all laid out at that time and this is the same as on our video.

Ken

there were 5 Comets built of which 3 were for the race but only 2 originals survive. G-ACSS at Old Warden and G-ACSP which is under restoration at Derby from the remains found a number of years ago in Portugal, please have a look at the web site for more details at..

http://www.cometracer.co.uk

Ken

there is a great site dedicated to Tom Campbell Black which has lots of great pics here… http://www.tomcampbellblack.150m.com/

Ken
http://www.kenfern.co.uk (new web site, have a look please )

Hi Gary,

I think you can safely assume that the DH88 Comet G-ACSR was in fact British Racing Green. This aeroplane was owned by Bernard Rubin, one of the ‘Bentley Boys’ who raced Bentley’s at places like Le Mans and in fact won the le mans 24 hours race in 1928. I am pretty sure he would have wanted his machine in Bentley colours.

British Racing Green in 1934 was actualy Deep Brunswick Green BS381C

I hope this helps, will you be setting up a web site dedicated to the race by any chance. I am involved in the restoration of G-ACSP ‘Black Magic’ hence my interest.

Good luck with the project

Ken