I can scrub off the example at Cambridge bomber and fighter society as accoring to their site it will be restored to static condition and i am only interested in flyers or possible flyers.

Best be specific Ollie old chap, you are not interested in Hurricane Survivors as the thread title says, just ones that will fly.

I was disappointed that the Flypast pamphlet went to great lengths to omit cockpits, complex composites and rebuilds based on few original items or crash bits and then included the latter anyway!!

A Hurricane survivor is exactly that. I am not going to get into the originality vs history, but WHO can say that a static Hurricane made up of 85% original parts (that flew in the war) is less of a Hurricane survivor than a brandnew rebuild!! They are both survivors in my book

Lies, damn lies and statistics!!!! You only need to look at the discussion of the Sea Vixen performance in the thread on Simon’s Sircus to realise that published data is not always what it purports to be. I’ve seen two different tables of data for the relative performance of the Hurricane Mk1, Spitfire Mk1 and Messerschmitt 109E recently which disagreed in almost every detail. One said the Bf109E could turn inside a Hurricane and Spitfire at 10,000ft and 300mph. The other suggested that the turn of a Bf109E was almost double the radius of the Hurricane!

If you can find the RAE data for British aircraft, you will be well on the way. Also there is some useful comparison of British aircraft and captured German aircraft. This is available on the web at least in the case of the Fw190A in comparison with the Spitfire MkVc, MkIX and Mk XIV.

There is a vast amount of information out there but check, check and check again the source of anything you come by.

The importance is to compare like with like, i.e. representative aircraft with similar war loads, fuel loads in the same environmental conditions. This is why perf engineers deal in referred parameters for comparisons. There is lots of data (including old A&AEE reports which in many cases are more relevant and useful than those from RAE) and to do the job properly would take considerable time

This one has gone….from my friend:
Could you repost to those flypast forum the fact that a search was undertaken by Westland Archivist for this prompted by my offer of Geophy’s equipment to track down the cockpit and if found loaning it to BDAC.

He discovered talking to a retired site employee that the cockpit was placed in the landfill but due to it sitting near a river Westlands were worried about contamination issue, so it was removed and scrapped off site. Its not there any more.

I do not post for the hell of it. I may have alot of commitments at the moment but at other times i dont have any.
I never thought it was easy and i wish the guys all the best luck in doing the Spitfire book.
My idea was to do the same, collecting observations, sotires etc but for the Hurricane.

Ollie, I have far too many projects,it all means I dont do them all properly…it is better to get used to cutting them down and prioritising.

I am now 40 and unlikely to finish them all by the time I croke. Use your enthusiasm and get one done, youll feel good and you will impress others
take care and happy new year
Tony
40 with the brain 🙂 of a 14 year old!

Hello Roketeer
Thanks for your authentication, because I heard from Michael, that you are also a spade grip expert. I guess, I was lucky, seeing it at eBay before you 😉
No, seriously, it approached at eBay yesterday with buy it now and even it´s a lot of money (USD 2000,-) it´ll fit perfectly my planned Hurricane instrument panel. 😀
And I guess, these won´t come often. The last I saw at eBay was a Harvard one with a replica break lever.
Kind regards,
Herbert

Worth it as it is a beauty! Well done

Hi Colin, I would have been up for that except I will be up in Scotland for Hogmanay. However I notice your link to the event at Abingdon on the 30th April and would certainly go to that as I have just started a new job at the Abingdon Science Park (a rather grand name for a collection of partly empty industrial type units). I fondly remember the Battle of Britain shows at Abingdon…. sadly now fading into memory…

I too fondly remember those shows at Abingdon, we used to display old aeroplane parts in B Hangar!!

Good luck old chap! Hope you do it. Dont let the armchair enthusiasts grind yer down!

I’m only young. I have BIG ideas. It’s not a valid excuse. We don’t have the luxury of time just because we are young, we just have slightly more than the older wiser members. It also means that we are going to have less real world experience than them in this subject, so it might be worth listening for once, because we’ll screw up a lot more. I for one have no worries about asking these guys for help.

My current project began in 1999 and its not back in the UK yet. I have a few realistic targets for the next few years, which I only shout about occasionally, and which take up most of my free time.

I AM considering that Shack nose section. I know it is gutted and most of the bits went into the Shack on display at St Mawgan, and that it has skin damage around the radome area at least.

I have investigated costs of transportation, from St Austell to Chesterfield. Storage. Making a custom trailer so I can move it later in its future.

But, it is a Shackleton, it is worth saving, and its construction is very similar to its predecessor the Lancaster. A nose section will help me build on the neccessary skills I need to use on a full airframe.

But this is the last you are going to hear of it unless the plan works. The reason being I don’t want to look like a right pillock, and cause everybody not to take me serious next time I try something.

Regards
Richard