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March 21, 2018 at 1:05 am in reply to: Hawk down at Valley, pilot banged out. #2154515

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Yes the Blue suit Circus Technician was killed (Bar the Eng O whom flies with Red One, the rest are engineering technicians bar Red 10s pax). I will not speculate on the reasons the person did not escape. 🙁

January 14, 2018 at 11:41 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #777644

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Got both Adours to dry motor. Yesterday saw us fit all the right engine ancilleries. We are missing a reheat control rod (that we hope Everett Aero will be able to help us with) , have to fit a couple of other rods, rig the rods and the engine controls to the throttles.. And sort out a bit of fuel so we can do the first idle runs.

January 6, 2018 at 1:13 am in reply to: X1 or M52 – who's right – who invented the all moving tailplane first? #781603

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Got sod all to do with all flying tailplanes.. Why , oh, why, oh, why are you a dullard!

January 1, 2018 at 7:57 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #784335

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The small gas turbine is a MicroTurbo “Sahpir” Air Producer unit. Centrifugal compressor /axial turbine unit that over produces compresssed air volume to power air turbine starter units on the Adours via starting valves. Excess air is ejected by a discharge valve that is closed by air pressure when a vent valve is closed and a start valve is opened for either engine. The Sahpir is used in the Jaguar and the Hawk. On the linked page, is the control unit. Various relays in our unit have been found to be outside working limits.

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December 31, 2017 at 6:39 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #784871

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Yes. All a dry motor does is throw oil around the lubrication system. Wet motor will bleed the fuel system. The Dry motor showed good oil pressure.

December 30, 2017 at 5:52 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #785612

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Dry motor of the No 2 Adour in XX741. Happy new year.

December 27, 2017 at 1:47 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #786937

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2017 End of year Video

November 21, 2017 at 3:05 am in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #805123

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I really wish I had brought THAT ADOUR!! I was talked out of it by an experienced Jaguar Sootie mate. It was a better engine than the one I brought in the end. I should have gone with my judgement! (I am a B1.1 LAE btw, so I do know a little about gas turbines!)

November 20, 2017 at 12:03 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #805597

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F3 you mean mate, and no, centre and rear fuel groups + the wings will be dry. Gravity refuel of the front group only. F4 will be very dry due to its location with our not so airworthy engines.

November 19, 2017 at 8:53 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #805864

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Yesterday, XX741 gained a couple of tonnes in weight. Our Adour 104s finally get attached to the airframe. It will still be a while before we get everything sorted to run them.

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However with other good news that a newly acquired waveform generator allowing our extra high tension unit to produce the volts and a hard fault found with our HUD, meaning we may have more cockpit systems working in the near future.

November 13, 2017 at 8:20 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #808975

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More video of progressing work. Hopefully this weekend XX741 will be almost 2 tonnes heavier.

Propulsion system testing

October 25, 2017 at 1:34 am in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #817677

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We have plugged in all our IN components into XX741. The INDU (and the indicators we have for it, need to get more) and the INCU seem to function correctly and the Platform seems to want to spin up as well. However the INU fails the BITE straight away. It seems the computer will not power up. Checks of the power supplies from the test connectors seem to show lack of power from the PSU to various elements of the IN, especially the compute. The boxes we have are early development models so fixing them shall be interesting. However we are getting good advice from a German electronics guru whom has rebuilt a working FIN 1010 from a Tornado. If we can just get the computer to drive the PMD to a set location, it will do me fine.

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September 24, 2017 at 6:21 pm in reply to: BCWM's Jaguar GR.1 Roll-Out #830027

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Been a bit of a long time since I posted anything, but work on XX741 has progressed slowly (lots of other things going on at the BCWM that has taken manpower away such as the A-10 Restoration). Most of this year has seen work being done on sorting electrical and mechanical systems in the cockpit, both control and lighting. The throttle box has been rebuilt, the rudder pedal adjustor circuit has had seized elements replaced and is now functional and all the lighting systems have had the issues with them sorted. A PCB replica was made to allow most of the instrument intergal lighting to work, the cockpit red floodlighting was restorted with the help of Everett Aero donating us working flo tube and power supply units from the frames that they still own and the anti dazzle lighting system has been wired up to work correctly. We have got hold of a Mk8D hydraulic rig that we have got working and is period specific for XX741, the spine has almost been rebuilt (missing a PHE ejector valve) and the engine bays are well in the process of being ready to take the engines.We even have the use of winches from a local MRO to get the engines in! The Cockpit instruments are complete with the donation of FIN 1064 INCU and INDU units, only bits missing now is a functional EHTU for the HUD (ours is cooked unfortunately) and some seat components (Neg G strap/V Strap and TLP being our main wants). Other systems proven include the DC ignition system (we have sparks). Picture is of all the cockpit illumination systems operating. Again we must thank James Everett and others whom have helped us with the parts we have needed to find. Without their support, the project would be impossible.

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July 1, 2017 at 11:49 pm in reply to: Sea Vixen wheels up landing #805796

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Any more non professional engineers going to make themselves look stupid?

July 1, 2017 at 2:42 pm in reply to: Sea Vixen wheels up landing #806258

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Ex Brat, yes it will be expensive and require proper sheeties to repair it…
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