I want your shelves! how did you go with the wing bolts scrooge? I might have got on to a half set here in oz

Plenty if you want new ones. I’ve found one large one that I think is u/s but not the smaller ones.

We’ve got a lot of 4U252 in a box marked as 4U253, what’s the difference?

possibly even less (or slightly more I suppose) depending on actual date of manufacture

We’ve got DH ones on the shelf here in NZ, if you want one do you know anyone down here for the Omaka airshow who could collect it?

devon21syndicate @ vodafone dot co dot nz

Are the ASI’s in a wartime Mosquito in MPH or Kts? both units are being used in this thread. A picture I have of KA114 has the ASI up to 500 MPH. 1kt=1.15mph so that gives an ASI indication of: 435kts.

Sad to see the interference of bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake in what is (was) a great project. I hope your extremely long olive branch pokes the correct person in the eye and while they’re off having a quiet cry in the corner, a more sensible person can step in and get things back on track.

Well, yes…..but why dive into cloud rather than climb into cloud?

Possibly because that early in the flight a heavy aircraft would not have the performance (rate of climb) to out climb terrain. I’m assuming a maximum fuel load plus passengers giving a low RoC and the pilot not being sure of the exact location of terrain so trying to remain visual with the ground rather than fly into the cloud with a low RoC.

Other variations are that the pilot might have been trying to remain clear of the cloud by maintaining a set altitude above ground, resulting in aircraft climbing gradually into cloud OR he could fly a set altitude and the base of the cloud could have lowered and they flew into it.

Same result- sharing a cloud with the ground.

What’s a Devon/Dove one worth- we’re selling our Dove and it may get parted out if there’s no interest in it as a whole.