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January 21, 2013 at 9:11 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #953504

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Some progress to report from this weekend.

The attached pic shows the seat lifting handle for the 1st Pilot, this has been assembled and slaved into position on the seat frame.

John

January 21, 2013 at 8:00 am in reply to: Lancaster Front Section Build #953552

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Well done Geoff, coming together nicely

John

January 19, 2013 at 2:27 pm in reply to: Stirling Crash, Norfolk, July 1941 #956102

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No relics from that aircraft unfortunately, although we have got a photo of the crew which I’ll post on here when it’s been sent to me

John

January 18, 2013 at 1:53 pm in reply to: Stirling Crash, Norfolk, July 1941 #957764

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Hi Andy

It was great to meet up. As you would have seen the workshop is in a bit of a state of chaos with the building work going on. Now that I know the tail number I’ll have a dig through the boxes and take a picture of what if anything we have and post it next week

cheers

John

January 17, 2013 at 12:09 pm in reply to: Aircraft and aero engines disposed of by burial (merged) #959473

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The Cambridge Halfords Stirlings – are they related to the large scrapyard full of plane bits that was levelled in the seventies to make way for the out-of-town retail park in which Halfords now sits? If we could move Halfords, DFS, Homebase and all the other usual suspects there should be quite a lot down there..

That would be a nice prospect:D

January 16, 2013 at 8:53 pm in reply to: Aircraft and aero engines disposed of by burial (merged) #960546

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Hello John

I cant find that post or thread either, KP must have archived or deleted it?

I do think the changing political sands in Egypt might provide an opportunity to seriously investigate these claims, they seem from a very credible source.

Hopefully any successful recovery of the P-40 to Hendon and the UK may establish contacts that would allow the Karefeet Stirling issue to be pursued and resolved?

While searching for that earlier thread I came across this thread which discusses sunken rather than buried Stirlings and I was wondering if you have any updates on EF311, or the other two wrecks mentioned at Worthing or the co-ordinates given in the dive report.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77197&page=7

And of course, is there any progress in the Russian rumours?

regards

Mark Pilkington

As always Mark, we haven’t given up hope on the Russian Stirling but no news to relate. The Kasfareet aircraft might be a possibility once the region has calmed down a bit

January 16, 2013 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Aircraft and aero engines disposed of by burial (merged) #960577

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I’d so like this to be true, there’s also rumours of 2 Stirlings buried under Halfords in Cambridge; but that’s another story;)

John

January 16, 2013 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Aircraft and aero engines disposed of by burial (merged) #960752

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Hi Tony

I suspect that we may have been around this buoy once before, but I can’t locate the thread at the moment. Via Mark Pilkington he’d heard of a similar rumour. Distance and the volatility of the region makes it difficult to investigate first hand but we did contact various ex-servicemans organisations of units that were in the area at the time but we got nothing definitive. That’s not to say that it isn’t worth investigating in the future

John

January 16, 2013 at 7:59 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #961390

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Some more progress in the cold last night 🙂

Both throttle box support beams are now assembled and just need final painting and the installation of paxolin fairleads where the aileron link rod passes through the beams. They’re slaved into position for the time being as they can’t be permanently installed until the fuselage frames 4 and 5 have been manufactured.

John

January 15, 2013 at 8:52 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #961994

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Hi Rob

I think it may be on display so would assume that it’s been conserved. The stbd side is a bit more damaged, but the photos we took of it will be invaluable in recreating the missing parts in ours 😎

John

January 15, 2013 at 8:46 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #963279

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Here’s a picture of the throttle box recovered from BK710 in Holland, many thanks to Cebro and his group for allowing us access in the past.

John

January 15, 2013 at 7:49 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #963325

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Height adjustment for Lilliputian pilots 😀

January 14, 2013 at 5:31 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #964285

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Hi Rob

I think it’s on display at the museum near Deelen but I could be mistaken:o

John

January 14, 2013 at 3:44 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #964477

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Hi Rob

There is a nearly complete one that was recovered from BK710 which Cebro should have pics of

John

January 14, 2013 at 9:02 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #965165

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Sorry for the lack of updates recently but we’d hit the buffers slightly having realised that our throttle box side panels hadn’t been made accurately enough. This was understandable though seeing as they’d been drawn up using very damaged items as patterns. having re-measured them and drawn them on CAD it showed that they were out by a small amount but significant enough to have ramifications when it comes to recreating the throttle lever cams etc.

The panels have now been drawn up, but in the meantime I’ve taken the opportunity to start on finishing off the support structure for the throttle box itself, the photo below shows the port support which I’ve now put flanged lightening holes in. This will now be rivetted together complete with fore and aft attachment angles before moving on to the stbd one.

It feels sometimes that you’re running to stand still but hopefully we’ll start moving forward again soon.
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