Hi Mathieu,

Are you back yet? We have to discuss some T V business now the Aviodrome has closed it’s archives and we cannot get in Roger told me.

For what it’s worth, to make such a thing as a cockpit you have to really love the subject. The B10 doesn’t tick any boxes with me.

The Fokker T V (which looks like the prototype HP56 to me) and the
Hampden absolutely do however.

Space is an issue here, the museum doesn’t have another room spare for such a project (roughly the size of the Halifax). The Hampden is half as wide and also shorter to make the pilot’s position. Decisions decisions.
So further investigation is needed to see what’s the best option.

Cees

The drawings for the Hampden are far from complete, small drawings seem to have survived quite well but drawings for some of the major components i.e. the bottom longeron for the rear fuselage ( quite important ) were disgarded when Handley Page folded. Using old photos, recovered wreckage ( mostley from L4063 ) and gleaning information from assembly drawings where the part is included but there are no dimentions, this was the case for the lower part of frame 2a where I projected the assembly drawing full scale onto the wall and got the rough dimentions from that, a bit of tweaking and frame 2a was recreated.

Hi there,

I am playing with the idea of another project similar to the Halifax cockpit. Do you think the drawings for the cockpit-area are available.? Also drawings for the pilot’s seat etc? How about a parts exchange network?

If the Fokker is a no-go, the Hamdpen is a very good candidate.

What do you think?

Cees

Thanks HP,

This topic was intended for you of course. Thanks for the update. So the drawings for the Hampden are not complete. How do you join the dots then?
Photographs, gizmology, recovered wreckage?
Cees

Well, today I have started working again so all is getting better now.:)
Having a cracked vertebra and bruised ribs doesn’t help though. The car was a total loss, but it wasn’t my fault. Not that it helps much.

Regarding the visit to the National Archives, who is planning to go there?

Cheers

Cees