Here you go – the black X’s extreme right are the bus stops nearest the airfield. The public footpath I marked in red is a right of way, but I am told that developers have built new houses at the village end since I was there last of it so it may not be accessible any more (legalities don’t matter when it comes to developers and local authorities in these parts). Red X marks the entrance to the museum for those who haven’t been before. Although it looks like major roads, they are easy to walk alongside.

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Why was the fabric-wing Hurricane useless, Edgar?

To re-iterate in case of confusion. The bus is STILL RUNNING. It has not been stopped by the council. It doesn’t stop outside the museum entrance any more. But it goes to the village, and the airfield is on the edge of the village. It leaves from the station. As does the shuttle on show days. Where the station stop is is subject to change, as the area is developed. But the busses still run.

I think the number 7 service still runs to Duxford village, from the redevelopment area stops to the left described before.. Route here: http://www.travelineeastanglia.org.uk/ea/XSLT_TTB_REQUEST?language=en&command=direct&net=ea&line=20007&sup=A&project=y08&outputFormat=0&itdLPxx_displayHeader=false&itdLPxx_sessionID=EAEM_97_49571734&lineVer=1&itdLPxx_spTr=1

Not so sure. The old stops in front of the station were decommissioned two or three years ago and replaced by stops along a new bus-only access road in front of Spiller’s Mill, to the left as you exit the station as described by Herky. Unless the DX bus left from somewhere else? Have to admit I’ve only ever caught it from the hotel stop.

You are aware that the place that buses from the station leave from has moved around the corner and down the road some distance, since the redevelopment of the area? You might have been waiting in the wrong place last year. If in doubt, go to the Crown Plaza hotel ( a short walk), which is another stop the shuttle bus makes.

Matt
(Cambridge resident)

That is a shame. I did write a letter to Westland to ask for the copies of the original 3-views to be transfered to CAD form. I think the scale model community deserves it.

I hope you didn’t suggest to AgustaWestland that scale modellers somehow ‘deserve’ CAD from them! :eek::eek:

Seriously, though, what is it you are wanting to do? 3-views can’t really be ‘transferred’ to CAD, though they can be scanned and presented as such within a CAD package by something like ‘BacktoCAD’ (I think that’s what it’s called). However, that won’t help with the all important shape.

A 3-view is an orthographic projection into three 2-dimensional images. If you are after 3 dimensional data you need at the very least some sectional profiles, and then it is a CAD operator’s job to translate that into a model of a 3d body. Even if the profile data exists, I doubt Westland will do this work for you. And what will you end up with? A CAD file alone is no more use to modellers (unless you mean 3D printer operators) than the series of profiles that it was created from.

I would instead ask whether you can have access to what they have on paper, and if it is of any use to the modelling community ask Westland whether you can pass the information on as copies. I have no comment on how willing they might be to do any of this!! You are relying on the goodwill of a company, and while they are very friendly and approachable I would be very careful about asking too much – and certainly wouldn’t go in telling them you ‘deserve’ anything, as that goodwill might dry up (it would if it was me)..