Happy Birthday Peter, any heres (raises a glass) to many more to come 🙂

From Google Earth, without the benefit of the original camera lens to shorten the pic. Pretty much the right spot ? just outside of the north doors of the western big hanger.
The markers on the horizon are the location of the blister and big north hanger and Church tower as mentioned in my previous post

Oh dear! There are some sensitive little petals here!:(
I was trying to be light hearted and not overly technical in my description of the propeller rotation.

Anyway, back to the subject…

Reversing the direction of an Allison from R/H to L/H tractor basically involves disassembling the engine to swap the crankshaft end for end, swapping some drives end for end and repositioning a couple of idler gears in the accessory housing, repositioning the reduction gear oil jet and scavenge inlet and rewiring the distributor for the altered firing order.
Now, it would be nice to know, for my own technical curiosity, if these guys have fitted a L/H rotation Curtiss Electric propeller, or have come up with a different solution.

For the record, the vast majority of P-38’s had handed engines for aerodynamic reasons I believe.

Unfortunately its not as simple as that re. prop direction, as depending on the mark of the engine the prop sometimes turned in the same direction as the crank and on others the opposite. IIRC the RH engines (crank rotation ) could turn the prop in either direction depending on how configured. Edit to add, configured at the factory, not swapped around out in the field.

So is it staying in it’s homeland or destined for ‘overseas’ ??

I have read elsewhere that it is going to its engines homeland.

Whats the latest,have all the aircraft and exhibits moved yet?

As above all gone including the potacabin museum building. I called in in passing on Sunday and missed it driving by first time. Even the fence between what was the museum grounds and the airfield has gone, not a trace left.

And also, did anyone noticed that not a single person of the 9 bidders asked a single question regarding this item, which looks remarkably like a bit of the ally chassis of my Grandsons Go Cart, seriously.

Jim.

Lincoln .7

I think you have to set it up for any questions to show on the auction page, I have asked many questions of ebay sellers (and got answers) and only a few have shown up on the ebay page.

A quick google brings up many pics of “The Millie P”, all show olive drab, not red, so Revell must have got it wrong. Had it been real, at least one would have been painted up for airshows, has one ever ?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=p-51+the+millie+p&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1568&bih=715

Very sad, his enthusiasm/passion for history always shone through and his ability to put it across on TV in a non boring way was unique.
From the Observer obituary “described as an irreplaceable historian who had a magical way with words.”