Well done John and team. Make this a year of great progress for the project. Without a doubt more clues will appear from a certain watery area.

Keep it up

Cees

Thanks Cees and Rob

And as for your comment Cees, we’re counting on more goodies appearing from the depths:diablo:

cheers all

John

Hi John, excellent update and some fantastic workmanship going on there:)
It must be difficult creating ‘new’ sections from small parts of original Stirling airframes?

Why thank you:o

Thankfully, the team has some clever bods who have got into the mindset of Shorts designers and can figure out from small clues as to what the component actually looks like. Thankfully, the Stirling is pretty conventional and there aren’t too many gotchas 😀

John

Hi Martin

Everything in that area has now been drilled and slaved into position on a temporary basis as there’s still some more work to do forward of Fr4 to button up the profile of the longitudinal beams. There’s also some more machining work required to make a slot in the P1 beams to allow for the rudder controls to pass through.

It’s all got to come apart again anyway for priming and wet assembling before top coating with paint.

John

Hi all

Here’s the first post New Year update. having just received the required hat section, I’ve been able to complete the first control stop assy for the P1 position. As mentioned before this incorporates the stop block and bolt from Stirling I N3654. P2 stop assy to follow shortly:)

John

Unfortunately we’ve drawn a blank with the lead that Firebex gave us (thanks anyway:)), so here’s another nudge to see if anyone has some gauges available

John

Thanks for the pointer Mike, tried to reply but your inbox is full

John