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  • October 13, 2015 at 10:54 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #853265
    John Aeroclub
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    So a menage a Twa(ctor). Excuse the phonetic three.

    John

    October 10, 2015 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Wilfred Clyde Heath DFC 16 Sqn #856373
    John Aeroclub
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    That is brilliant. Thank you to all who helped.

    Regards

    John

    October 10, 2015 at 10:22 am in reply to: Wilfred Clyde Heath DFC 16 Sqn #856810
    John Aeroclub
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    David

    Thank you, I’ll pass this on.

    John

    October 9, 2015 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Wilfred Clyde Heath DFC 16 Sqn #857115
    John Aeroclub
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    Paul

    Thank you for this information. The nephew of the pilot Clyde Heath is hoping to go out to visit his grave next week so this is timely. 16 Sqn had re-equipped with Spitfire IX’s (the Pink ones) but as PL845 was a Mk XI it would seem that they had retained some of this Mk so would the mission have been flown from Benson or Melsbrouk where the sqn were based?

    Thanks again

    John

    October 8, 2015 at 12:40 pm in reply to: Proctor, Vega Gull dimension. #858156
    John Aeroclub
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    Keith,
    I think I can read .dxf.

    Cheers

    John

    October 7, 2015 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Proctor, Vega Gull dimension. #858539
    John Aeroclub
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    Hi Dev One

    Thank you for your input.

    Unfortunately I don’t have Autocad, I’m one of the last of the “hand and eye guys” in the plastic model kit world. I use Coreldraw for all my drawing and design work. It’s my suspicion that the 112″ is a point to point measurement rather than between verticals in a rigging position. So taking the 112″ as a hypotenuse this gives me a rough guide as to the distance between rigging verticals and my drawing is in the horizontal with a guide line through the wing TE. I can work out the length of the vertical of the tri-angle I expect the figure (by measuring in Coreldraw) to be around 106″” which will tell me which drawing is suspect. How long since I did the square on the hypot….

    John

    October 7, 2015 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Proctor, Vega Gull dimension. #858662
    John Aeroclub
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    Ha! this has thrown the pussy-cat amid the pigeons. The only one of the drawings to agree with the wing TE to tail LE figure of 112″ is that for the Proctor IV, whist all the others, Vega Gull III, and the two Proctor III drawings hover around the 108″ mark to the tailplane LE. I’m using Gearing’s book as reference to the dimensions. The drawings (poor copies) came from the late Mike Eacock who was an ex and passionate Percival stress man. Gearing eludes to the fact of the Mk IV rear fuselage was lengthened,
    but he says nothing about the changes to the front fuselage to make up the roughly 2′ 4″ that the Proctor IV gained over the III. Was the 112″ measurement taken between perpendiculars on a horizontal fuselage,or slant?

    Sorry to be a bother.

    John

    October 7, 2015 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Proctor, Vega Gull dimension. #858802
    John Aeroclub
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    Than you for your trouble. That is excellent.

    Best regards

    John

    October 7, 2015 at 12:04 pm in reply to: Proctor, Vega Gull dimension. #858921
    John Aeroclub
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    Thank you.

    John

    October 4, 2015 at 11:32 pm in reply to: RAF Squadron Markings. #861167
    John Aeroclub
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    3 Sqn A cockatrice, The badge of Wessex on a monolith representing Stonehenge (Larkhill).

    John

    September 30, 2015 at 12:30 pm in reply to: My visit to Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow – photos #864662
    John Aeroclub
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    Thank you for posting, one of those museums I still have to see.

    John

    September 25, 2015 at 10:18 am in reply to: Cross Deck Landings #868626
    John Aeroclub
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    A.4, possibly in front of another Demon.

    John

    September 25, 2015 at 10:02 am in reply to: Aircraft id, help needed #868633
    John Aeroclub
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    Stranraer operators were using 15 a/c at the outbreak of war with 209 and 201. Prewar 201, 209, 228 and 240.

    The Stranraers were finally withdrawn in 1940.

    John

    September 24, 2015 at 3:24 pm in reply to: Aircraft id, help needed #869292
    John Aeroclub
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    It had a vintage feel about it and as I pointed out earlier the canopy frame was very square, so again it was a pre-war a/c with a dual control facility, no curved Plexiglas top which ruled out a huge number of types. The a/c also had to have a passage well to the nose given the angle of the photographer, (no I phone selfie). There was also a bulkhead behind the pilot.

    John

    September 24, 2015 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Aircraft id, help needed #869445
    John Aeroclub
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    Stranraer. The sticky out bit is to link a dual four spoke control wheel.

    John

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