Its interesting the Mosquito had the same wing section as the Comet.
The Comets as built had the wings flat with no washout and with the tapered wings this caused it to tip stall at low speeds and old news reels show some hairy landings. Grosvenor House when restored was done as original and the flight test reports state that it has a wing drop at the stall which is why they try to do a ‘wheeler ‘landng. When the american replica was built they incorporated 3 degrees of washout in the wing which does seem to have improved it.. if you look at the post on you tube of it flying at Airventure in 2009 you see it doing a perfect ‘three pointer landing’
Anyone want to buy me the Anzani 6, that would be fantastic to get. I was after one of these when I built the Austin Whippet replica..now at Doncaster.
Ken
I have seen those clips before on You Tube and have them saved as favourites so have seen them a few times, you just get the odd glimpse of the locking mechanism so we can probabley draw up something similar.
I still havent been able to get any pics of the canopy locking mechanism, I was given the contact details for their main pilot Robin but it must have changed..so again my request is does anyone have any pics of the inside of the canopy or any contact details of the current operating team
Thanks
Mark has just completed a Seafire XVI fuselage so now has all the formers and jigs sorted to restore 611, he was talking of making a start on it this year which will be great.
Ken
I am after fuel gauges for the Comet project, the originals were similar to the spitfire ones but calibrated differently of course for the larger tanks.. Original Spit ones fetch a lot of money so I would be interested if you have more info, ie are they working ones or just static
Supermarine Aeroengineering in Stoke have developed a method of covering the grips thats looks exactly as per original, perhaps its worth speaking to them,see..
Thanks for that, its great what can be found out on this forum. Now are there any BD4 owners out there interested, I dont think he wants anything for them just that they find a home before they are binned
Thanks for all the help on these spinners, can anyone help with the part numbers for the back and front spinner plates and the spinners themselves both for the Heron and Proctor. We have the Queen 30 and Queen II manuals but they arent listed in either.
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