Perhaps someone can answer something I can remember from the BEA days of the Argosy.
When the later 200srs variants were delivered new to the airline they came with the latest, higher power, version of the dart which did wonders for the performance.
Unfortunately BEA took all these new engines off and fitted them to some of the Viscounts, the Argosies then got the old Viscount hand me downs. I dont know why other than that passengers were more valued than freight perhaps.

Richard

A Westland Whirlwind(helicopter) for sale, the owner seems unsure about what he has got though and who made it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESSEX-WHIRLWIND-SIKORSKY-WITH-ROLLS-ROYCE-JET-ENGINE_W0QQitemZ250404302710QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:GB:101

Richard

Ozplane
I know that the fuselage was crushed in the unfortunate crash but the wings/fin/rudder/engines all looked fairly undamaged.
As the Biffo is a type that made a substantial contribution to UK aviation history post WW2 I always felt it should be represented in a museum somewhere, most probably Filton.
So would it not be possible to get a fuselage shipped from NZ/Canada/Oz to build a composite. The last airworthy one was to be flown to the UK at one point but fuel costs killed the plan. But a fuselage brought by sea would be far less expensive.
Perhaps some lottery money might be available, no perhaps not on second thoughts.

Richard

LL
I think noise levels are part of type approval these days and some of these documents are on the web, if not the CAA/FAA would have the data.
Some airfields that were MOD owned and operated, which subsequently have become redundant(or seen limited use) have had real trouble getting planning permission to allow continued civilian use.
Until the recent financial troubles old runways were a valued commodity just for the amount of agragate that could by produced by crushing them, an example being Greenham Common’s runways which became the Newbury bypass. But the logistics of then relaying a grass runway in place of the tarmac one might be enormous.
I wish you all the best.

Richard

They might find theselves a bit short of space, in the blurb they say ‘As an education tool, an 82ft-long commercial airliner is a sure bet to take teaching to new heights’.
Except everywhere I look a 360 length is quoted as 70ft 10in, but thats modern education for you.

Richard

It’s not the count, exactly, it’s the number of specialised pieces requiring significant work. Perhaps I should’ve been clearer.

In what way could a the flexibility be an essential good thing?

I accept the point regarding specialised pieces that probably each required a jig or tool to make, I know it was said that the Wellington could be repaired easily using ready made sections but that alone has a logistics issue.

And as for airframe flexibility, some aircraft were designed to be flexible for example the Boeng B47/B52/707 line. I always believed it allows lower structural weight.

Richard

As an enthusiast of anything piston powered the thought of a film bases around the Berlin Airlift is fantastic, but how many others out there even know of it happening, or care for that matter.
Didnt the two DC4’s at North Weald come to the UK for a film to be made based on the toffee bomber events.
It would be possible to make a good showing of suitable aircraft using what we have ie, DC3, DC4, Lancaster(painted to look like a lancastrian), and the C97 run by the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation. http://www.spiritoffreedom.org/

Richard

Thanks for the reminder. Something to look foreward to on the box, an unusual event.

Richard