Sorry, kev35, I went over the top on the age limit, it’s just so exasperating sometimes . . .
I am fairly new on the Forum and 99% of the time it is great, just a few idiots let it down and I had the impression it was due to their age.
Of course it’s all down to maturity really.
I am sure you do, skylinerworld, my remarks were addressed to those who needed to read them, and they know themselves who they are.
Kev35 made, as I say, a perfectly reasonable request and I am sure that the vast majority of Forum members would like to keep it tidy.
I don’t think there’s any more to be said about it now.
I personally find the the last two posts on this thread a childish and rude response to a reasonable request.
I even suggest that the minimum age for participating in this Forum should be raised to 18, there must be other places where such inane remarks can be posted.
Here’s a bit of gen from the Aerofiles Web site, if it helps (I have AE no. 17 but not 16, as it happens!):
Wright CW-21 Demon 1938 = 1pClwM rg; 1000hp supercharged Wright R-1820-G5; span: 35’0″ length: 26’6″ v: 304/275/61 range: 600 ceiling: 35,000′; ff: 12/2/28 (p: Ned Warren). POP: 1 prototype [NX19431] c/n 21-1, and 3 exports [NX19441/19443] c/ns 21-2/21-4. All went to China, and an order was placed for 32 in component form for assembly by Chinese Aircraft Mfg Co at Loiwing, but cancelled before any production was begun. Three of the four flying exports reportedly crashed en route, the first crashed in China during testing.
CW-21A – Allison V-1710-powered project cancelled.
Curtiss-Wright CW-21B Transitional, with original gear [NX19441]
CW-21B 1938 = Rearranged fuel tanks, P-40-type landing gear, modified tail. POP: 22 exports to Netherlands East Indies.
Shocking!
“The gun later was returned to the marshal.”
In my opinion for people in such a responsible position it should be “one strike and you’re out”, no excuses! In other words she should have been sacked and sent home on the spot. Not least as an example to others.
😡
. . . and here’s the aircraft in question, photographed by me at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio, last summer (and you thought Hendon was dark!)
Thanks, wannabepilot!
I once spent 6 hours at Stansted waiting for my (Ryanair) flight to Sweden – next time that happens I’ll have my printout of your maps handy and take a stroll!
My sentiments entirely, JDK, you beat me to it!
Thanks, JDK, I finally managed to get the Pathe site working and it’s a great piece of film (for one who’s memories stretch back that far!). It really was a Golden Age of flying, and I’m sure Geoffrey Tyson was still in his lounge suit while in the cockpit!
Quote from http://www.hazegray.org/faq/ram3.htm
Flight tests of all three (SR./A1) prototypes proceeded until August 1949 when both the second and third aircraft were lost in accidents, one sinking after hitting a floating object while landing on the Solent and the other after loss of control during an aerobatic display practice. Around this time the Ministry lost interest in the project, and also effectively cancelled development of the Beryl engine, but Saunders-Roe brought the first prototype out of storage for trials of their own for which purposes it received the “B-Conditions” civil registration G-12-1.
These trials continued until 1951 when, after being displayed at the Festival of Britain site on the Thames, it was retired to the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield.
You mean this one?
Never carried passengers, though, even if it was the fastest Concorde to fly!
The Metrovick F.2 engine was first called “Freda”, having followed earlier prototype engines named “Betty” and “Doris”. The third F.2 flew from Baginton in the tail of Lancaster LL735 on 29 June 1943, and on 13 November 1943 at Farnborough two mounted in underwing nacelles powered the third Meteor, DG204/G. Unfortunately one of the Meteor engines exploded fatally on take-off on 1 April 1944.
The F2/4 modified version was to become the “Beryl”, with a thrust of 4000 lb.
Source: “The Development of Jet and Turbine Aero Engines” 3rd Edition2002 Bill Gunston
I have read that this aircraft was usually flown inverted and scandalously low along the Farnborough runway when it was displayed at the SBAC Show 7-12 September 1948. The pilot was Geoffrey Tyson (the mildest of men).
Do any photos exist of this remarkable feat, and if so could someone please post them here?
Incidentally TG271 is said to have carried the very first Martin-Baker ejection seat.
Source: “40 Years at Farnborough” by John Blake and Mike Hooks, Haynes 1990
100% agree with you, JDK.
More power to your elbow!
Kev35:
wouldn’t a timed exposure eliminate the “people milling around” (as long as none of them trip over your tripod in the dark!)
A light-hearted observation from Sweden!
However, although I have not been to Hendon for years, it sounds as if it’s no place to take my camera!