As I have said before, I have enough parts to build a quarter cockpit including a original windscreen…just need time etc! Plus a few dimensions!
can you PM with a price old chap please?!
The big old ally casting is a RR Merlin generator mount….the seat is as fitted to the likes of some Venoms, Piston Provost, etc..the leg is similar to a Blenheim
would like the Merlin part!!!
My goodness a few grumpy people here!
A cautionary tale…..many moons ago an idiot swapped his .22 airpistol for the .22 air rifle with scope my brother owned so that he could improve accuracy…he aimed at a cat and was surprised when a shot between its eyes killed it….nasty and very sad.
I am not that keen on cats, though I can see why others love them…especially Anna’s and Elliot’s. Sure, I have a scotty who used (saying that word very quietly so I do not provoke remission!) eat cat and fox poo….it did annoy me and cause me to have many a chat with the boy….who just gave me the scotty ‘Me? Daddy’ look!
At the end of the day, they will poo where they like and will sadly eat wildlife….but please dont shooot them with anything (except perhaps a water pistol). I heard there was a sonic based deterrent?
My goodness a few grumpy people here!
A cautionary tale…..many moons ago an idiot swapped his .22 airpistol for the .22 air rifle with scope my brother owned so that he could improve accuracy…he aimed at a cat and was surprised when a shot between its eyes killed it….nasty and very sad.
I am not that keen on cats, though I can see why others love them…especially Anna’s and Elliot’s. Sure, I have a scotty who used (saying that word very quietly so I do not provoke remission!) eat cat and fox poo….it did annoy me and cause me to have many a chat with the boy….who just gave me the scotty ‘Me? Daddy’ look!
At the end of the day, they will poo where they like and will sadly eat wildlife….but please dont shooot them with anything (except perhaps a water pistol). I heard there was a sonic based deterrent?
…….I still think birds did!!!….
joking aside….my step Gran was 4 when she and the family escaped Russia in 1917…her mum even shot a revolutionary (who was trying to kill her and the family)….they then became refugees in Europe for best part of 40 years….
My Grandad had nothing but respect for soviet aviation. It is unfair to say they copied anything….some of the most maligned people in the world are the Russians….they had it bad under the Tzars, and worse under Stalin (and the Soviets). Millions died in the war….sad stuff…..
politics and humankind (bid of a misnomer!)….I still believe birds invented it and we, as ever, exploited it!
The Yak 141 is pretty good!
finally back from Colorado, I took this photo of one in flight from a tree….hope you like it….of all the flying things I have photographed, this is the most beautiful!!
finally back from Colorado, I took this photo of one in flight from a tree….hope you like it….of all the flying things I have photographed, this is the most beautiful!!
an aircraft that once went to war!
Glad to hear you have gotten your life back in order Dilip……the dreaded D word….life is full of ‘clubs’…some you really wish you could get in to….others you wish you were not in!
To answer the original question….birds did!
Yak-36 bit of a death trap by all accounts
auto ejection seat…had seperate lift engines from forward.
Russians are resourceful and believe in not re-inventing the wheel or fixing something that is not broken. Russian ejection seats are world class and excellent.
Copying is a 2 way street!
Moggy, this is worthy subject by itself and would be worth a seperate subject?
Welcome to the forum.
I knew none of this dreadful affair until reading Andy’s ‘Finding the Few’ It was one of the stories in it that made me really angry.
As for displaying the salvaged aircraft I am always impressed by the compact tableau at Hendon with the remains of the crashed Hurricane. I stare at the rudder pedals and think instantly of the feet braced against them as the aircraft fell. It is very, very powerful.
The question would be ‘Where best?’
It might be worth approaching the Pantons to see if East Kirkby was possible. Though that is very much ‘Bomber Command’ themed.
IWM North badly needs some content
National arboretum / memorial?
Moggy
The best place to display the remains of the arcraft is at the Lashenden Air Warfare Museum at Headcorn Kent. We already have the Rolls Royce Merlin XII & the prop boss on display as part of the Andrew Cresswell collection along with a fitting tribute to John Gilders.
We would be only to pleased to give the remains an appropriate home.
I, like Moggy, personally think a BoBM Maffett Hurri type display would be wonderful. The ‘Nimrod’ music and the sad remains and the scroll of honour are unbelievably moving….brings a tear to my eye everytime I see it.
Your Great Uncle was a true role model and hero.
My T24 went from Lancs to being a film star as a wind generator at Pinewood!
Four are still in service on the Blower Tunnel at Boscombe Down….still earn keep on project such as Merlin (helio) and Typhoon!