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  • in reply to: XN298 Whirlwind #1023619
    merkle
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    Thanks Anon,

    Not a lot left of the Chopper cockpit then ?, just a tub I imagine this bit was crushed etc.. ****** should have put a bid in ..

    in reply to: XN298 Whirlwind #1032955
    merkle
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    Thanks Anon,

    Not a lot left of the Chopper cockpit then ?, just a tub I imagine this bit was crushed etc.. ****** should have put a bid in ..

    in reply to: Aircraft parts found on old airfield. Any idea?? #1046165
    merkle
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    Yep, certainly looks like the remains of a Hunter canopy and rails to me.

    M

    thanks all,

    looks like i found remains of WT616, ? now need to see if it was carted away, leaving a few bits, or dumped in a hole ??. Hmm, magnetometer will be able to help maybe, shame Geophysics kit is’nt to hand 😀

    in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #1047106
    merkle
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    It’s one of mine XL609. Take it away please…..

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    I am Drooling.. if it was a single seater.. i would be a puddle..LOL, ,Nice job on the Provost panel too, i remember you bought it at popham, just a panel, looks a very nice piece 🙂

    in reply to: Aircraft parts found on old airfield. Any idea?? #1047459
    merkle
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    Pretty certain its Hunter, I originally thought this when I found it, but was told 41H donates Hurricane, this is a bubble canopy, and the likely hood of it being anything else is less than positive,

    Hawker Hunter F.1 WT616 was broken up on site in 1980, having been at the airfield since 1962 , used by No 1 Radio school, I believe it was derelict for many years before final disposal, and I have probably stumbled onto its remains, .. I hope to find a way of proving it,

    Many Thanks David for instructing me that 41H donates Aircraft Company , not type, as now I believe there is a strong possibility that i have stumbled across the remains of WT616, I also believe this as I used to own a Hunter Canopy , and
    these canopy rails look identical, all be it from my memory of the canopy i owned .

    in reply to: Aircraft parts found on old airfield. Any idea?? #1048121
    merkle
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    Also have just read, Weston had the job of breaking up many types, Hawker Typhoons,Hurri IIC , Lancaster and Mosquito .
    Here are some pictures of the Canopy rails I have found, with close ups in as found condition, I have placed the small data plate back where it was originally fitted before it fell off.

    in reply to: Aircraft parts found on old airfield. Any idea?? #1048202
    merkle
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    Weston super mare,

    near the Bristols/Westlands site, but I know also Weston had various types repaired, or worked on from the dark days of WW2 and after,
    I know they Built Hawker Tempest II at the nearby Banwell Factory Serial No’s MW375-423 total 50 aircraft between feb-Aug 1945 , forty of those went to the Royal Indian Air Force .

    That is the only type of Hawker Built at Weston, But they also repaired, tested various other types and we know of the Hunter that was there for many years .

    in reply to: Sea Hawk WV919 recovery / pics needed #1039196
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    That’s great news Heli !.

    I went in this weekend specifically to ask about the possibilities of IHM displaying the wreckage of WV919 , and more items to do with Weston Airfield.

    I asked about the old watch tower and was told by a member of staff quite high up in the organisation.. who just shrugged there shoulders. and said ” we tried to get a preservation order on the building, however, english heritage didnt agree, 🙁 .. and this member of staff didnt have a clue as to what was going to happen to it. .. I left with the feeling the person i spoke to was reasonably interested, but the museum as a whole was not.. I am still awaiting a reply from the museum about this ?..

    and there will be a article in the local paper about the seahawk this week.

    its exellent news, to hear IHM are considering the airfield history, and relics from the local area. if this is true, I hope to be at the forefront helping them . and or a new group if we can raise enough local interest.

    in reply to: Sea Hawk WV919 recovery / pics needed #1044119
    merkle
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    I got the local papers from the day Gar.. first thing i looked at 🙂

    no problem with a bit going to wales. just not all of it 😉

    in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1059559
    merkle
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    Smirky, I dont think it will, the way people talk about cockpits on here they are gold dust, but trying to pass one on, just for the price you paid, which a museum thinks is a fair price is impossible, I would probably get more in scrap, sadly, ,I have put it on various forums, etc, not a dicky bird , and would be happy to swap it, for something, as my problem is its too big for me to handle, I would swap it for relics, etc, or a dug up prop as aviation archaeology has allways been my love, but dont know of anyone interested ??
    it would make a nice flight sim, one side is complete ,the burnt outer skin on the other side could be taken off and have a perspex sheeting put over it, it could be a nice exhibit, and unusual, 🙂

    and they say, its too far gone, well theres still a good basis there, the pod is complete, and theres more than one restorer on here who has built from scratch, just loook at the hornet, vampires, and halifax sections built ?? ,

    in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1059730
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    that’s right it never moved, I visited once, paid 200 quid , couldnt find anywhere to store it locally, let alone couldnt afford to run around eastern europe for parts ..even the eastern europeans are finding parts scarce !
    a Su-7 is a lot different to a Su-22

    and if i cant recover the money i spent, the Su-7 may as well be turned into coke cans, quite a wieght in aluminium !

    :diablo:

    in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1060042
    merkle
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    Yep .. Coke cans :rolleyes:, .. and i am the only idiott who “tried” and parted with alot of money to take it on. never mind.. never again , … never ever ever again 😡

    in reply to: Licenced recovery of DH Hornet PX229 #1063781
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    I think PX229 is pretty much cleared out, we used magnetometers, fishers, and ordinary detectors,

    truth is most was carted away by personel of RAF Locking, and the hornet crashed almost in level flight . and blew up , flinging parts up the hill, over the wall and into the next field.the only points of impact were where the cannon dug in, and the engines, which broke apart on impact. showering parts of the engines up the hill, + the ground is very rocky, so we are lucky to find what we did, there will allways be odds and ends ,but the majority is dug up, to try and explain the ferocityof the explosion, I found the exhaust stubb, about 3/4 of a football pitch away, in the next field,on the brow of the hill, in a field that has never been ploughed !! 😮

    in reply to: Licenced recovery of DH Hornet PX229 #1063979
    merkle
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    thanks Tony,

    now for my next target to investigate, Liberator, B24J USAAF not far from me..:D

    in reply to: Licenced recovery of DH Hornet PX229 #1063989
    merkle
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    can anyone tell me if i can get Bilt hambers Deox-c in any local stores, ie halfords,B&Q , Etc ??

    would rather not use ebay, and cant find any on here at the moment anyway

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