all in good fun… I served a few years on SAR with the Sea Kings of Leconfield, and to be fair, helecopters do have their place. Whats the history of this one? Is it worth saving given that most of it is mag alloy and also given the extaordinary lengths people such as YHPG go to to restore whirlys? I must be honest, if it was cheaper I’d go for the whole aircraft just to get the rotor head.
Oh, and as a complete aside, when a close family member was dying on the road following a terrible car accident, did the air ambulance only a few miles away get scrambled? No. He had to wait over 30 minutes for a road ambulance. More funding for the air ambs needed!
RIP Scott. Always thinking of you mate.:(
Quite bizarrely, I’m after a complete rotorhead if anyone can help? I just don’t want the rest of the blender to go with it…
A certain gentleman I work with will read all of this and I’ll get it in the neck tomorrow. He has a Whirlwind in his back yard….:D
No helecopter can actually fly. They are so ugly, the earth repells them…
I’ll give him a tenner for it. Then burn it.:dev2:
Naturally, its early days and there are few straight forward Majors but are you expecting many ‘problems’ given that it is a reasonably recent rebuild? I know the lanc had a few ‘interesting’ moments (rudders, bomb bay door skins).
Are there any additions to the standard major scheme of work?
The red dot on the tyre is the light spot and is positioned next to the valve on the wheel, the tyre doesn’t have a heavy spot.
b*****. so close, but so wrong! (me, not you). Either way, NOT water…:D
i collected some very large spoked aircraft wheels/tyres(6ft plus from up the dales (where i cant remember) however they were fully inflated when collected and the gentleman pointed out these had come from a large pre war biplane used as a target tug by the navy and the tyres had to be ballasted .:cool:
With water???
I’d imagine the early tyres and spoked wheels were built in line with car tyres and wheels of the time, ie. lead weights attached to the rims, or some other similar weighting. By 1940, most wheels were constructed out of alloy as assemblies, and tyre weighting would have been done at construction by modifying the number or grade of plies or by adding internal weights between the plies. Lead weights would probably have been found to fall off due to the vibration and higher landing speeds.
This is all supposition by the way, since I am no expert on tyre development, only by comparison to modern kit…..
Any pre-war aircraft operators care to comment on how spoked wheel and cover assemblies are balanced?
water ballasted tyres? Surely someone is pulling your leg… I can’t see any advantage to ballasting tyres in this way at all, unless someone want to shed some light on it. aircraft tyres are balanced at manufacture, and marked with a ‘heavy spot’ on the sidewall. On fitment to the wheel assy, the tyre heavy spot is lined up appropriate to the wheel’s balance. The tyre is then filled with Nitrogen. (Less expansion with altitude, but mainly used since it is an inert gas). Water does not feature in the process. I can only speak for modern (post war) tyres, but I can’t imagine the balancing process has changed much since before the war…
As said, Dunlop were (and are) a major supplier of aircraft tyres.
If I’m talking c**p, please tell me….:D
NEAM’s F-84F Thunderstreak
Here is a link to the full history of our F-84F. The information on the Greek jets is out there, but unfortunately at this time I have no leads to give…
http://www.neam.org.uk/Exhibits/History/26541.htm
By the way, as part of the deal which saw the F84F and F86D come to us, we have to keep one aircraft in its Greek markings. The F86D had a more interesting history earlier in its career, so the F84 remains as a Greek example. Hope it helps in some way…
Very interesting. I must visit the IWM one day… shame its a 6 hour drive….
I don’t wish to insult anyone’s intelligence here, but I probably will…
remember that this aircrft would have to be permanently static! An airworthy reproduction could not be built this way.
I’ll get my coat, and head off for a backpacking tour of obscure chinese airfields…….
BTW Lindys, the colour shot of WJ721 in camo is how they looked when relatively fresh from painting.
I did wonder what a Canberra was supposed to look like! I assumed they were all corroded to death…..peeling paint…..badly fitting wings………;) 😀
Come to NEAM. We have the only TT18 painted as such. From passing memory, I don’t think the serials appear on the wings. no photo’s either yet….
EDIT: Shows what I know (read posts immediately below…) and to be fair, I’ve never really taken any notice!
Come guys, we don’t wish to overshadow you, it’s just our profile is a little high at the moment, after all to a certain extent we are in the same game…. and don’t think it’s a bed of roses when it comes to shoe-strings we can boast a couple of boot laces.
I still have a connection with the cold war jets collection in Canopus and I do encourage all my hangar visitors to see the rest of the collection, but I have had to employ an enforcer to make sure they pay up when they leave us.
we are still part of the Bruntingthorpe team,
Denis
🙂
I don’t want to let this thread to degenerate into an arguement thread. All I want to do is say thank you to our hosts last weekend. The V***** has had alot of publicity and there are many other threads celebrating those achievements. I did enjoy our time in THAT hangar as a qualified aircraft engineer, but I was more impressed as a volunteer restorer with the guys outside.
Sadly I didn’t get over to the Lightning shed, or really have much time at all to savour everything – only a couple of hours, but I did look at things with a view to return! Brunty as a whole (both V-bombers included) has a huge amount of potential, and with some careful investment could become the cold war jet equivalent of Duxford. Imagine that!
The Swift F.7 G-SWIF belongs to Solent Sky – she will be rebuilt in the fullness of time.
Jolly Good! 😀 Thanks David.
Don’t forget the Swift fuselage on loan to NEAM – WK198. Probably the most significant Swift. Sadly one of the worst conditions (Sheppards surplus excluded….). It won’t deteriorate as it is stored indoors, but a recent look up the jet pipe was frightning. The cockpit is gutted – it literally is just a fuselage!
personally, I prefer the hunter for elegance in design, whereas the swift shows what I would tem as typical British industrial design – it looks like in a crash, the ground would come off much worse than the aircraft…
IMHO G-Swif should be re-built… any news on the staus of that airframe? I know she won’t fly….:(