Did any other pilots in the RAF or any other Air Force fly with missing limbs or bits , or was it just Douglas Bader , I know there was one 1st world war pilot with only one eye .

Try http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=86417&highlight=bader+legs+pilot

A pilot not mentioned on that thread though is Percy Blamire – a Coventry Garage owner who raced a Miles Gemini profusely in the 1950s and 60s. He had one leg but I don’t know if he served in the military with his disability.

Roger Smith.

CFS have all the part numbers as they overhaul these props. Funny enough CFS are on the old Alvis works!!!
http://www.cfsaeroproducts.co.uk/

To be strictly accurate CFS occupy what was the Alvis test facility where they tested their aero engines and the various military vehicles they produced.

The “works” or factory was in Coventry – a site on Holyhead Road now occupied by a retail park 🙁

Roger Smith. 🙂

This is probably the blindingly obvious suggestion that’s already been tried, but have you contacted the Science Museum? As you probably already know, they have a fabric wing Hurri on display and perhaps they therefore have some technical details for fabric wings stashed away somewhere?

Wasn’t there some form of exchange between the Science Museum example and the one at the Birmingham Museum (Think Tank)? I only say that to add a second string to AdlerTag’s suggestion.

Roger Smith.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150405967185&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1123

Aeronca 65 in California for $13,000!

Roger Smith.

……. the fabric wing has a zig-zag of trusses between front and rear spars, which themselves are made up of upper and lower polygonal-section booms joined by a web. The whole thing, when viewed in plan, forms a warren girder, much like the side view of a bailey bridge…..

Did any other Hawker type employ this sort of wing construction??

Roger Smith.

I remember, when helping restore Vampire F.1 VF301 many years ago, at being suprised how much filler material there was on the wings under the paint – presumably there to give a correct aerofoil shape.

Roger Smith.

What’s the going rate for a gieger counter??

Roger Smith.

Strange question – it’s not under any threat is it? Graham Vale and his colleagues seem to be going from strength to strength and have done marvellously to acquire and move all those aeroplanes from Long Marston.

Roger Smith.