merkledont know if you will say congrats when you see the mess she is in.. lol, but unique.. dont think i will be too worried about parts for the moment lol
heres a youtube vid of the Su-7 in its hayday, and the mig 21 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXyWO49xQLw
Xm692.. Thankyou very very much for your help.
twin otter.. Lets hope so.. but i dont think its ready for sitting in just yet… its full of soot,
and to all who have sent me there best wishes.. I thank you.. 🙂
also a bit about the Su7 on wickipedia, for those who dont know about it, the grand dad of the Su-22, Pauls lovely Su-22..
merkleDone deal 😀
just need to find somewhere to put it short term,to do some cosmetic work on it, and arrange a pick up,
I believe they were taken from Farnborough with a trailer and range rover ,
it wasnt a quick deal Pagen… ive been chatting to the owners for nearly a year on and off.. 🙂
I thought, stop worrying about parts, etc etc, just DO IT.. then it will all fall into place, I will worry about the other
stuff as I come to it 🙂
Hence to say ive had a right crappy weekend, But now , I am as exited as a kid at christmas :):D
merklePaul,
Very nice. Please remind me, what version of Fitter is it again ?
As Merkle’s no longer having the gutted Su-7 that’s over here, perhaps you could send me copious photo’s & measurements of your interior please ?
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Hi Dave..
I sold my lambretta today.. so I HAVE the money, i sold the bretta so we could eat till pay day, but it leaves me with just enough to secure the Su-7 .
(check yer email ) 😉
merklenice pics… thanks for sharing 🙂
merklePaul,
Very nice. Please remind me, what version of Fitter is it again ?
As Merkle’s no longer having the gutted Su-7 that’s over here, perhaps you could send me copious photo’s & measurements of your interior please ?
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its a Su-22 .. quite alot different to a Su-7:)
Su-7 cockpit pic below
merklenicely put Kev..
they should never be forgotten ,I visited normndy a few times, and to see the graves from all sides is quite a humbling experience.. to go there and see the neat row upon row of headstones.. you cant help look, and think every one of them, was a young man, full of life , somebody’s father,husband,or son.
life cut short, to give us the freedoms we have today..
we Will Remember them .
merkleI don’t like the snobbery coming from certain people, i find offensive that you believe you have to be over 40, dress smartly and talk only about certain things to be an aviation historian.
From ‘some well angree yoof and that, er dat dokyoumentree well cool innit’
NO:rolleyes:
now theres a comment that warrants a here here !!
many young people try to get into the “Aviation club ” and there is a definitive snobbery among some.. if the young ones have a heart and passion and interest in Aviation, us older or not tooo old as in my case.. should embrace and welcome such keen youngsters and help there interest to grow. .. as indeed what future if any would there be for aviation history.. if a new generation doesnt step in with the same passion as us elders to fill our boots when we are gone ??….
merkleAnd then…
Do you really think he would want to?
Chris I don’t know you, you sound like a great guy from the forum, but you really need to read through what your writing here, and think back to all those bits and projects you’ve bought and then had to sell.
I would say the least of your worries is some other chaps Meteor.
Your Right Pagen.
but I cant shift it, its been with me since childhood, and its a dream i keep chasing.. perhaps i am a bit mental, as it eats at me sometimes, i am sure many others are the same,.. its Amazing, how a bit of old tin, can have such a hold on a man, i wish i had done it years ago, when 1950s stuff wasnt wanted, like it is today.. or should i say more available than today ..
I am sure I will get there one day, any old british reasonable sized 50s 60s cockpit that can be eventually restored, i was going for the sukhoi , but the parts for them are trully non existant, let alone air publication manuals, all in russain, thats if you can find a set ???
RIGHT THEN !!.. I am orf to buy my Lottery ticket 😀
merkleOoops
Ooops .. she allways was a T7 😮
merkleare we talking Kermit weeks here ?? the owner..
???? … or is it a secret.. if someone could PM me, we atleast could get a ball park figure of what the man wants, IF … he wants to sell it ??..that is :confused:
merkleAhh, so the owner has lost interest in it..
well, I would buy it , if i could .. I cant..but i have heard of things going on loan, this is what i meant, as a team, not a individual,..I think its a shame thats all, and frustrating to me, and many others, because we simply cant stump up the cash for such a aircraft, and from what i was told, the asking price was very high ??.. ( however i cannot corroberate this )
I personally have no room for the aircraft. maybe the Nose cockpit section, and even then i would need to size it up to see if it would fit.
and then what would happen to the rest of it ??.. I would have to keep that in store somewhere else for the foreseeable future, unless somebody wanted it for the airframe, to revert it back to a F.8 etc, and i bought the T7 cockpit which they wish to replace ??.. that could be possible..
does anyone here on the forum have a meteor cockpit, for which they want the airframe to fit it too ?? … i am currently as of last week have a bad credit record , due to my ex leaving me and the kids , and half the house income just disapearing, I cannot get loans etc, BUT however, I have advertised Lots of things i need to get rid of, and some i dont really want to be rid of, but when i get the money i will be giving it to close family for safe keeping, so when the NEXT chance arrives, I WILL be able to afford it . costs over a long period of time for restoration will not be a problem, but to pay rent for storage ,and suitably near my home so i can work on it day and night will be a problem,but if i can fit it in my mother large garage( cockpit section) there will be no rent to pay, and all the tools at hand.
and why cockpit and not full aircraft, well its simple, transportation to events, space and being able to work on it,
its just so frustrating, when the heart is willing, but finances,and all those other things in reality stop us from having that chance, I am sure this goes for so many on the forum,
You may say , i had that chance with 887 , but yet again, i was stopped by circumstances, it was miles away, it was way to big and i couldnt find a place close enough to store it , and couldnt afford the rent for such a item.
simply , because it was too big,
but who knows, perhaps some of us can pull together if anyone is interested
merkleI would have the cockpit from it, and work on that, but would have to be re-inbursed costs when they wanted it back, .that would only be fair .. I know , its a silly idea, but i love the old T7 even went to recover a crashed one.. but hate to see that nice old greenhouse canopied pit, just slowly decay
that would be novel .. bits of meteor all over the country , with various folk, cleaning, restoring etc.. and in a few years , bring it all back together as one aircraft .. could have ,Wings in wiltshire, cockpit in cambridgeshire, ,tail in tenby LOL.. you get the jist… Nah, silly Idea, the “Forum Aircraft Rescue Society”..
still would be a novel way to get a few bits restored… but i think thats bound to Fail at the start 😀
merkleCitation from air ministry
qoute !!
Citation for the award of the Victoria Cross
“Air Ministry, 8th November, 1918.
His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to Lieut, (actg. Capt.) Ferdinand Maurice Felix West, M.C., – Royal Air Force (formerly of the Special Reserve, Royal Munster Fusiliers), in recognition of his outstanding bravery in aerial combat.
Captain West, while engaging hostile troops at a low altitude far over the enemy lines, was attacked by seven aircraft. Early in the engagement one of his legs was partially severed by an explosive bullet, and fell powerless into the controls, rendering the machine for the time unmanageable. Lifting his disabled leg, he regained control of the machine, and, although wounded in the other leg, he, with surpassing bravery and devotion to duty, manoeuvred his machine so skilfully that his observer was enabled to get several good bursts into the enemy machines, which drove them away. Captain West then, with rare courage, and determination, desperately wounded as he was, brought his machine over our lines and landed safely. Exhausted by his exertions, he fainted, but on regaining consciousness insisted on writing his report.
(The award of the Military Cross was gazetted on 26th July, 1918)”
merkleerm…. not quite as much as that mate 😀 haha..
as for star wars, all i got is a old AT-AT and a Y-wing both knackered,
but i have just found 4 star wars original posters in my loft, i had a spate years ago of buying original posters, it all stemmed from getting the old DVD posters from the dvd shop when they finished with them, but then i bought some aswell. my star wars ones are still in there wrapping, apart from my empire strikes back poster.. now i am pretty much forced to sell the lot… got loads of posters from loads of films, i will never hang them all, so de clutter me thinks,
me star wars ones came from the USA and are originals,
here me ESB poster.. ( sorry to go off thread :o)
merkleyes, like i said, buttons, we paid for them.. I did ask the chap about it, at the time, and he said it was old stock !!..
and surely they MUST have been as they were signed Pre 1988 as Capt West, died in 1988..
still.. after looking into it.. what a bargain eh 🙂 😀
you never know Steve, perhaps one day Like the £2 starwars toys of the early 80s .. they might become a lot more valuable .. if looked after 😀
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