Quote from the text ‘This artwork will become a lasting symbol of the BCATP era on the prairies similar to the ancient stone medicine rings found in other locations’.

I doubt that skelatal Anson remains will last anywhere near as long as stone rings have. Seems a waste to me to leave them there although iin t is some ways impressive, but now its done and photagraphed dismantle it.

Richard

It looks like a piece of aluminium extrusion, probably ‘L’ section with one leg broken off. You can see the tooling marks from when it was manufactured. I am not totaly convinced it is an aircraft apart from it having the part number and inspection stamp on it. Tractor/car/fridge/mower parts dont have that sort of thing usually.

Richard

I am aware that problems existed in the two Miles types. Being wooden, they employed a high proportion of glued and pinned construction, where the pins held the (load carrying) structural members in position while the glue set and the loads were transferred by the glue across the whole of the wooden joint. At that time, among the high technology adhesives were the casien based glues which were used in the construction of these aircraft. As time went by these glues deteriorated and the ARB (as it was in those days) required expensive examination of casein glued airframes as a condition of renewing the C of A to civilian standards, condemning many War-surplus aircraft to the scrap heap. I suspect that the few remaining airworthy Miles Aircraft which are still around have been carefully rebuilt using modern glues that should stay in one piece unlike others that had failures along the load paths due to deterioration of the casein glue

I have never heard of glue/structural failure being a problem during the service life of wartime wooden aircraft, other than specific instances like Mosquito’s after living in the tropics for a while. Many thousands of Airspeed, Miles, Percival and DH types were built.
It was only post war when age and outside storage started to effect some aircraft that wooden airframes got a bad name. I believe the general concesus is that it was a bit of a overkill by the CAA and a lot of healthy airframes went to the bonfire heap needlessly.

Richard

I wonder if someone was using the Bournemouth Guppy CL44 as an engine ground run stand, to test recently worked on Tynes prior to being shipped. But that theory would only works if somewhere else in the world a CL44 needs serviceable engines!!!!!!!!.

Richard

Its due at the Goodwood Revival later this week.
http://www.goodwood.co.uk/revival/news-and-coverage/articles/goodwoodhasathirstforfirsts.aspx

Richard

I see the accident report has recently been published on the sad demise of
G-APRR at Blackbushe last year.
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/bulletins/june_2009/super_aero_45_series_4__g_aprr.cfm

Richard

A Fiat G46 just went past me here in deepest Hampshire sounding superb, is this the one that was on rebuild ex Southend. In which case they have got it airworthy in a short time.

Richard

You could add the Tomtit to that list.

Richard