This is going to sound so stupid but I was at Duxford about 6 months ago and didn’t see the Sunderland, either it has been moved or was very good at playing hide and seek.

Can anyone tell me what has happened to her?.

Humble John!.

The photo was taken yesterday.

Anyone know how long the aircraft will be outside for as I need a few pix before they are interned in Airspace for the duration.

Cliff see THIS from UKAR

Brian

Brian, the metal templates were used as part of a process which allowed accurate reproduction of a pattern for cutting / forming of many identical metal components, it involved a form of photo etching and lithography. This was in the days before CNC machines and water jet / laser jet cutters.

The concrete formers were used in sheet metal stretch presses which both pulled and stamped the metal at the same time, mainly used for skins etc. reinforced concrete was used as a ‘lowcost’ method of producing tooling for limited runs of parts, sometimes just one offs. The process is still used today in low volume & prototype applications, although now the media used can even be a reinforced plastic rather than concrete.

Thanks for that Jagx204 explains a lot.

Brian

Very nice photos, cheers for sharing them. Interesting car in the glass case type thing outside, did it say what sort of car it was?

Thanks chaps but sorry Rlangham, there was nothing on the box to say what the car was. It’s a travelling exhibit as I am sure I have seen it somewhere else before.

Brian