Good point Cees.. incidentally does anything substancial still exist of the AW Siskin.? Is there a fuselage, set of wings still extent? And what about the AS Jaguar engine, any of those still around..?

Yes, I’d love to see a Siskin. As far as I know there are three wings in the care of the RAFMuseum – I believe they are all uppers (and from the same side?) – one of them has been on display at Midland A.M., Baginton for quite a long time. There was (on a previous thread) talk of a rudder somewhere in deepest Warwickshire and, maybe, bits in Canada???

Jaguar engines are very rare – the R.R.H.T.(Coventry Branch) have one on display at Derby.

Roger Smith.

There are quite a number of books that cover British aeroplanes/light aeroplanes that include types that took part in the Lympne trials in the early 1920s – as well as several of the Putnam series on British aircraft manufacturers. Lots of photos of aircraft taken at Lympne (during the trials) in these.

I wonder has anyone written a book specifically about the Lympne Trials (1922 to 26?)

Roger Smith.

Glad DaveR has stepped up – he seems to have been researching the Sabre for some time so best person for the job 🙂 (I still have more to do yet on the list of Lions).

As JDK has said the WW1 list is an excellent example of what can be acheived with the participation/input of a knowledgable world-wide audience.

…….Next RR Vulture, RR R perhaps?……
Cees

I would like to see one on the AS Jaguar perhaps? – but maybe not yet.

Roger Smith.

thanks for that Laurence.

Any chance of an ISBN no. or the publisher?

Roger Smith.

Why havent i been told about these :rolleyes: 😀

Probably for fear that in the current economic situation you wouldn’t be able to find a bank willing to loan you the money to buy one – they sound expensive :diablo::diablo:

Roger Smith

I watched said report – the “finder” was Richard Parr of Retro Aviation (see current FlyPast page 42/43).

I got the impression there were three Wellington panels – certainly two – being used as fencing but was unsure whether they were fuselage sides or wing upper/lower surfaces. I would guess they were each about 8 – 10 ft. long x 3 ft. high.

The other items “found” in the (un-named farmer’s) barn were a Javelin nose cone “been used as a child’s play-teepee”, a Javelin canopy section, several Miles Master canopy sections and a Hercules engine.

The farm location was said to be “just down the road from RAF Shawbury”.

Roger Smith.

PS will this add fuel to the calls aired in a previous thread to assemble a third Wimpey from the surviving bits spread around the country??

IIRC, the aircraft were there to gain time in international mail runs, the ship ‘shortening’ the sea crossing for ‘air’ mail. So a) they didn’t take passengers or freight and b) they did wait for their ship to arrive in port before re-embarking. I don’t believe the British ever seriously tried it, while the Germans did a lot of it – using the Dornier Wal, 18, Junkers W.33 and Ha 139 among other types. Of course it was an intermediate solution, redundant once payloads and ranges became sufficient.

An alternative in Britain was, of course, the Mayo Composite.

I think the basis of Neville Shute’s (N.S.Norway) final novel “Stephen Morris” revolves around an experiment to catapult a small flying boat with a range of nearly 1000 miles off a trans-Atlantic liner. The difference in speed over 900 miles between aircraft and ship would get the first class mail to it’s destination port a lot quicker.
“Stephen Morris” was not prophetic though – it was written post war (a good yarn though).

Roger Smith.

Like other posters this is a Museum that I need to re-visit. Thanks for the photos.

The glider behind the Jet Gyrodyne (photo 4) is, I think, the Broburn Wanderlust, ex Bagley’s Barn, Farnborough recently mentioned in another thread.

Roger Smith.