Well done on starting the long process to saving this Lincoln which seemed to be heading for oblivion. Talking of Lincoln components, did you know that a complete black-painted fin and rudder is displayed upstairs in the main hangar of the Midland Air Museum at Baginton, Coventry UK. I think the artifact is on loan from the RAF Museum.

It is on loan from The Aeroplane Collection (or whatever their current name is – NAPS as used to be) and it is on display at MAM for a very good reason.
AWA built 281 Lincolns at Baginton between 1945 and 1951. I’ve a feeling MAM also has some turret bits but that may be my memory playing tricks.

Roger Smith.

Who else produced sleeve-valves other than Bristol ??

Ken

Daimler – but they were for automobiles. Other motor manufacturers may have built them too – and quite a few years before Bristol’s radials.

Roger Smith.

Don’t he and Mrs. Shaw have a Stearman each – “his n hers” ??

Roger Smith.

Good one Stuart.

Can’t you edit your first post and then delete the second one? I got confused when it openened onto the petition for VE day holiday and it might put people off.

Roger Smith.

Great to see these – thanks.

Roger Smith.

… airplanes …

SHUDDER, SHUDDER an ‘Americanism’ just got in the forum :diablo: :diablo: (sorry to the Yanks members)

Roger Smith.

I think it’s a “Bitsa” – Bucker cockpit and tail, Me 108 wings/uc (although the legs are too far apart), Steiglitz’s engine (massive exhaust pipe underneath with no sign of a collector ring).

Roger Smith.

There is some coverage of the AW.681 in Oliver Tapper’s “Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft since 1913” (Putnam) with some text and a photo of a model on pages 50 & 51 and a 3 – view and proposed specifications on page 344.

The Midland Air Museum have a large scale model (and several smaller ones) of the 681.

Roger Smith.