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December 28, 2009 at 4:24 pm in reply to: How Are Model Aircraft Accurate If Original Drawings Dont Exist? #1098635

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There are many works drawings that are not correct. I have come across De Havilland and Slingsby drawings that dont tie with the orignal aircraft. So i dont think models would be that accurate.

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December 28, 2009 at 12:25 pm in reply to: Short Singapore #1098708

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Here’s my propeller again, I have posted a photo of it in the past. It has suffered over the years as it was hung on a wall out side before i bought it.
The plywood boss has gone. It is fabric covered panted black with brass leading edge. sorry about the lawn mower handle getting in the way of the shot. Its the only photo i could find of it.

Dave

December 25, 2009 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Short Singapore #1100472

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Looks very good. If you do the propeller, they are black. Or at lest the one i have is.

Dave

December 18, 2009 at 7:12 pm in reply to: Vintage Gliders in museums? #1105590

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I saw some very nice vintage gliders in the USA this year, including a very nice Bowlus Albatross SP-1 replica in the San Diego Aerospace museum. But i dont now how to down load the photos from my camera yet. Also the Horton Ho1Va in the Planes of Fame museum. We do have a hook that came of it when it was at Farnborough.
At the moment my family have a Slingsby Kite prototype, Grunau Baby 11b and the Hawkridge nacelled Dagling.

Dave

December 13, 2009 at 8:52 pm in reply to: Shuttleworth Collection 11/12/09 of Dzus and Scud #1110988

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I must admit, in no small part thanks to the the enthusiasm of one of the collections pilots, I am really looking forward to seeing it fly.

Yes, I was with him when we rigged the Scud at the London Gliding Club some months ago. I took some photos of him sitting in the glider. Then he and his family came over to my fathers workshop, with the owner of the Scud.
I haven’t seen it fly for some time, so it will be nice to see it in the air again.

Dave

December 13, 2009 at 11:19 am in reply to: Shuttleworth Collection 11/12/09 of Dzus and Scud #1111551

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The Scud 11 arrived at Old Warden in the afternoon of wednesday 9th December. It had come from Dunstable, London gliding club. We put it together, as shown in the photo. It hasn’t flown for a few years.

Dave

December 12, 2009 at 9:14 pm in reply to: What aviation gift are you buying yourself for Christmas? #1111857

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Im waiting for a wing rib jig so i can build a few new ribs for my prototype Kirby Kite. 🙂

Dave

December 11, 2009 at 6:45 am in reply to: EON Olympia 2b #1113603

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F B, Its looking good.

Dave

December 10, 2009 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Spotted #1114152

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A Leopard Moth over Woburn Sands around lunch time

December 9, 2009 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Airworthy Fox Moth Census #1114849

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I think you are right G-ASEA in that the replica was a Mike Russell rebuild project, along with the Drone and, from memory, a Dragon as well. He was going to set up a flying British light aircraft collection. Definitely a character and capable of talking for the UK.

My father and I stored the DH Dragon wings and other parts for that project. I think the Tiger parts where from G-APMM? Mike also started the first HP 42 project.

Dave

December 8, 2009 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Airworthy Fox Moth Census #1115618

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WJ244, I think the Fox you refer to was G-ADHA which went to NZ in 1997 according to G-INFO. Also on that source is G-BFOX a “replica” DH83C belonging to an owner in Bedford. What’s that all about?

I think the G-BFOX was a project with Russavia many years ago. A lot of Tiger Moth parts where collected with the aim of making a Fox Moth. In the end the parts where sold.

Dave

December 7, 2009 at 2:18 pm in reply to: 1930's Glider Picture,Famous Owner #1116885

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IIRC there is a brief mention of this incident in “A Glider Pilot Bold” by Wally Kahn. If you haven’t read it you should it is great reading. Wally’s sense of humour shines through from start to finish. From what I can make out they were a couple of great characters such as one only seems to find in aviation circles. Just wish I could have met one or both of them.

I did have the pleasure of meeting Group Captain Edward Mole. He was a very intresting person. In fact there was a documentary made about the London Gliding Club, in which Edward Mole was telling me the history of the club. I dont know what happend to it, if it was ever released. In am in a photo in Ted Hulls book ‘Take up Slack’ with Edaward Mole and Ted Hull standing in front of a Eon primary glider.

Dave

December 6, 2009 at 1:55 pm in reply to: 1930's Glider Picture,Famous Owner #1117993

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G-ASEA, didn’t we recreate some aspect of this in the Russavia days? I seem to remember the Drone and the Tiger being used, and PT dressed up in a big pink hat! Was it for a BBC programme about Cartland?

Happy Landings indeed a great read….

Yes we did we also use the Haddenham based T31 ‘Blue Brick’. I think it was a programe about her life. I met some of film crew at Haddenham when the where filming our camouflaged Kirby Kite 1. They said they had to film her in a surtain light!
When Michael Maufe built a replica BAC V11 a good few years ago he contacted Barbera Cartland, all she repiled was that she had finished gliding days, so that was that.The glider was on display at Brooklands for a short time when Mike Beach got a few vintage gliders together. Mikes BAC V11 was built using wings and other parts of BAC Drone’s. It was later sold, so i beleve to somebody wanting to convert it back into a Drone.

Dave

December 6, 2009 at 9:18 am in reply to: 1930's Glider Picture,Famous Owner #1118349

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The glider is a BAC V11 flown by Edward Mole.

Dave

December 4, 2009 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Richard Todd #1119306

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I think i remember him on the BBC news flying in Lancaster G-ASXX in the 1960s. When it was moving some where. One of the exhust stubbs fell off in flight!

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