The Perseus XII had a dry weight of 1105 lbs/502 kilos, a length of 36.3 inches and a diameter over the engine cowl of 53 inches.
And for the Mercury XII a dry weight of 966 lbs overall diameter of 51.5 inches.
But that said I looked on google and found other figures so take your pick.

Richard

Surely if the aircraft was going to nose over when the pilot got out, it would nose over whether it was running or not.

Several factors could cause this, firstly the pilot appears to be sitting behind the CofG so if he got out the aircraft would immediately become nose heavy, then with him not onboard the elevator which he would usually be holding fully up, stick right back, would drop down and lift the tail, although he might get away by tying the stick back with the seat harness or his trouser belt. Lastly Rotary engines are difficult/impossible to get to idle slowly so they produce a lot of residual thrust, some had blip switches to cut individual cylinders but the pilot would need to be in the cockpit to do that so fidling with the mixture controls to get the slowest idle is all you can do. So the chance of a nose over would be very likely.

Richard

Hi Richard

I had a look and the access panel you have (68781) was also used on the Whitley cowling. We are looking for one and I wondered if you would consider letting it go? I sent you a pm/email. The AW47 number is just an inspectors stamp and doesn’t relate to the aircraft model – it’s a bit of a red herring.

All the best
Elliott

Elliot
Your welcome to the panel, say where to and I will post it.

Richard

Sorry I cannot help with your item but I also have some parts from RAF Hampstead Norris, mine were just lying in a ploughed field and I picked them up about thirty years ago, always thought they were Albamarle.
They are a small access panel with AW47 68781 2 and inspectors stamps RC28 and RC3 and the end of a control rod p/n AW10046 and AW10044. I have always been puzzled as to why it has AW47 on it as the Albamarle was AW41 and the AW47 was never built. I didn’t know some were scrapped there.

Richard

The Skyraiders have been discussed before http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?63377-Fleet-Air-Arm-Museum-Skyraider-AEW-1s&highlight=swedish+skyraider+target+tugs
What is the steel tube fuselage frame, looks a bit like Hawker.

Richard

I had heard a couple of months back that this might be happening.
Planning for housing on the former Long Marston aerodrome has also just been given, resulting in the demise of the Shakespeare County Raceway dragstrip as well any flying activities there as well, and the Wellesbourne rumour came on the back of that news.

And Dunsfold have submitted plans to build over most of that site which would leave Brooklands ground runnable VC10 without a home.
If protection of airfields doesnt come soon very few if any will remain apart from the busy commercial ones.

Richard

In the UK Aero Research Ltd pioneered resin adhesives back as far as the 1930’s. I am only guessing but some of their resin mixed with a filler material such as talc or flour would make a paste like substance for filling rivet depressions, nowdays micro balloons are used for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Research_Limited

Richard

The Canberra is indeed WJ730 which sadly crashed only a few months later onto the runway at Farnborough. http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=21110

Richard