Canberra

If you Google ‘largeScaleDelals.com 32077 32078’ you will find a series of marks for Sopwith Dolphin’s, one is shown that looks identical to the one in the background of the image of two cadets scrapping. The scale decals note has it being 93 Sqn Kenley. 

Wiki says 93 reformed in October 1918 with Sopwith Dolphins but disbanded a month later. 

Geoff

Have a look at these systems, ALARMSFORFARMS we have had the wireless Farm Guard set up for several years, it triggers an alarm in the house or can set off other types of alarm and its not expensive. Get very few false triggers just the occasional pigeon or fox.

It catches out the type of people who think they have not been seen, those when challenged say ‘I’me looking for the man who does carpentry’ or ‘do you have any scrap’. 

             Richard

Mark

I cannot offer any help with identifying this item but from what I can see the following might help.

1. The frame is a two piece aluminium casting, which suggests from an airframe produced in large numbers due to casting tooling costs. If its very light it could be cast magnesium.  

2. The difficult to read part numbers are the casting number of that piece of the frame, potentially having nothing in common with the p/n of the finished part which is probably stamped on somewhere. 

3. It appears to have two hinge points and a third lug. As Nicko has said it looks as if it opens inwards and my guess is top hinged with the third lug for locking into some sort of latch that holds it up and out of the way when open.

4. It looks to me like a US made item but that’s just a gut feeling, and not a pressurised airframe due to the seal being one designed to keep wind/water out and not air in.

5.  My guess its from something late 40’s or newer, Grumman Albatross, C-119, C-123 or helicopter S-55/58.

Richard

I would love to know who constructed this originally as from the pictures it looks well built but without an LAA inspector being involved from the start I doubt it can only ever be anything other than a static. And the Comper Swift connection seems extremely unlikely although one of those was built from scratch recently. The only slim possibility for an existing design could be the Currie Wot but again its a wooden single engine biplane that looks nothing like a Walrus.

            Richard

Someone who had visited the Marham Victor recently said that when the aircraft was originally put in place on gate guard duty the flight deck area was loaded with bags of sand to make it less tail heavy as much of the heavy equipment, engines, was missing. The moisture held by the sand has now corroded the floor which has collapsed. 

Shame if it gets scrapped but it is probably too far gone, I would rather see an effort to keep the Beverley or even just the fuselage of it.

           Richard

Hello Brandisi

You are missing a letter from the registration but assuming the G-AHD part is correct it comes in a batch originally sold to BOAC in 1946 then sold on to Aviation Traders in 1948. 

HDL was  RAF PP224

HDM was RAF PP228

HDN  was RAF PP234

HDO  was RAF PP236

HDP  was RAF PP268

HDR—————-269

HDS —————-277

HDT —————-308

HDU—————-310

HDV —————-314

HDW—————-315

HDX—————–316

     Richard

Likewise I too would be disappointed if this Gannet were to not be made airworthy, I know Dowty Propellers were unable to help for what reason I dont know, I also thought the prop was similar (obviously not the same) to the ones used on the F27 and that gave some hope that an overhaul agent somewhere in world might be found. I don’t doubt that everything has been investigated but for those who have got the project this far it must be soul destroying.