Steve

Yes, W5856. As my reply suggests, all being well she may return to the fold sometime next year. Keep checking the RNHF website for details.

In the meantime is there anyone on here with access to any preserved Pegasus engines who might be able to help me complete a form of census? I’m particularly interested in the two numbers to be found stamped onto the crankcase housing – one is a five-digit number (sometimes prefixed ‘P’) and the other is a six-digit number (sometimes prefixed ‘A’).

Anyone?

Rgds

Lee

Bruce

That’s very sad. John was a real gent and, as you say, a stalwart in every sense of the word.

There can’t be many of the old guard left now.

RIP. What a depressing weekend!

Lee

Stewart

I’m intrigued. Does your engine have a serial number plate on it, and if so can you tell me which one it is? There should, in theory, be two – one purely numerical and a second prefixed “A”.

Lee

Anyone get photos of the Piston Provost/Chipmunk/CAP10/TB.10/PA28 departure?;):D

Chox

There was nothing disingenuous about my reply. I have the greatest of respect for those who plied the same lonely furrow before me. What I asked was what your sources were, seeing as you point blank refuted my comment that Cherry Red was what the official documentation showed. I’m curious, that’s all, and more than happy to review anything I may have put into print as long as any counter-argument is backed up with something I can go on. If being fair is an issue, then surely it’s only fair to tell someone they are wrong if they have the evidence to back their claims up with?

Let’s not go overboard with this. I feel thread-creep is upon us!

Lee

How bizarre. Maybe it’s a Westland thing then? Ask Dick Ward, Richard Caruana or Paul Lucas – I’m sure they’ll all tell you the same that post-war the roundel colour has always been Post Office Red. I honestly have no idea where the term Cherry Red might have come from.

But that was my reason for including a section in the book – to try and dispell any colloquial terms which may have been used in the past and revert to the original documentation. I’m not decrying the work of those who have produced the modelling magazines over the years – far from it. Had he not died tragically young I would be sat here typing this right now just 100yds from where the late Mike Keep once lived. It is a constant source of regret that he is no longer with us as he undoubtedly was the best in his field. What wonders he could now be producing with the benefit of modern technology!

The issue of the dayglo paint finish caused me no end of angst. And whilst I’m not saying that what I’ve put together is the be-all and end-all, it may hopefully serve to clarify a few things and maybe even bring forth some additional new information.

er no, Post Office Red actually. Where the hell has “Cherry Red” come from?!

Err……official drawings! And is what is still applied to this day. Back at ya: where did Post Office Red come from?!

As I say, t’is all in the book!

Two different finishes there. The Whirlwind is (should be) “Dockerblaze Fluorescent Red-Orange”. The Wessex HU.5s were always “Signal Red” (their HAS.1 predecessors were Dockerblaze).

All nicely detailed within a nice new book on its way from the printers the second week in May….;):D