I’ve got a few 1937 editions, but it doesn’t appear in any that I have to hand.

I did loan some copies to a well-known magazine editor (you know who you are!) so this might prompt my regaining them!! 😀

….. it was only a bit of mist , it had almost cleared by 3 o’clock:rolleyes::rolleyes: spike

Oh no it wasn’t 😮

Having been on standby at Bicester from 8am to try and find a way through to take up a ‘visitor’ slot, I can testify that for the first time ever, we were experiencing a combined thunderstorm AND fog!!

Then the weather went downhill after that!!

A number of farm strips around here use horticultural ‘polytunnels’ for hangarage. I don’t know how costs compare with Protech, but may be worth a look.

Before you commit to a bunch of stuff in your back garden, don’t forget local farmers may have a space in a barn or agricultural building you might get for a reasonable donation!

It might even be worth asking at your local LAA strut or microlight club. Someone might be looking for a use for their workshop space if they’ve just got a project flying!

My best guess is to take it back the way it came, via the nose.

If the wing roots can be supported to take the load off the engine mounts, so much the better.

Once the tail gets past the vertical, the rear fuselage needs supporting. There have been cases of broken fuselages and bent metal longerons from the tail being allowed to crash to earth.

Assuming it wasn’t on full power and it merely shattered a wooden prop, a full shockload strip on the engine may not be necessary. A crankshaft runout test and close inspection of the crankcase for cracks may be sufficient.

I’d guess though that they will need to closely check the tubular steel engine mountings. They are normally designed to take loads via tension, or the vertical load when static, rather than the weight of the whole aeroplane in compression.

I guess the fin and rudder are history and again the rear fuselage and cabane struts will have taken some unusual loads, not in their normal stressing!

Very sad, but its not the first Flitzer to suffer this fate and they’ve all made it back into the air again!

There is at least one Sabre engine under long-term restoration to airworthiness and the guys working on it are happy that it will be sufficiently reliable to operate.

The big issue is, as always, cost. The last time I heard from them, they told me that the labour costs on merely stripping the Sabre, were about the same as for a complete rebuild on a Merlin! 😮

According to the IMDb website and the film’s own site, the locations used were the disused Hradcany Airport in the Czech Republic and Fowlmere in the UK.

My first guess was the latter location for the pic, but surely Fowlmere’s hangar is in far better condition than that??

How about aircraft restoration projects – what out there has been found in a barn and is being rebuilt to fly…

FB

I can think of a BE-2c replica!! 😀