17th April 2012 – Augsburg Raid 70th Anniversary – it was mentioned in the LLA magazine that a talk is being organised by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire (AHL) at the Petwood.

I believe that AHL is also organising a Year of Aviation in 2012 to celebrate several other aviation anniversaries relevant to Lincolnshire – 70th Anniversary of Eagle Squadron; 30th Anniversary of Falklands; 100th Anniversary RFC etc

Kenneth,

Many thanks for agreeing to look for the Monospar items – there’s no rush but any input would be appreciated. 🙂

I don’t believe that they have been in touch with the other organisation that you mentioned but I will make sure that they do so.

The KZ reference is interesting because I remember an ‘invasion of Winthorpe Airfield’ back in the late 1970s / early 1980s :confused: by the KZ Club; a wonderful group of aviation enthusiasts – including at least one pilot who wore a ‘traditional Viking helmet!’

Kenneth,

I have now received some feedback from the volunteers at Newark and specific assistance is required in the following areas:

Any internal views of the cockpit, in particular the opening roof

The tail trim wheel – together with details of the other end showing the tail plane jack, although this may not be relevant on a different Mk of Monospar :confused:

Views of the underside of the front fuselage

Details of the cockpit access walkway over the port inner wing

If you were able to put any photographs onto a CD and send them to the following address I would ensure that your postage costs etc were reimbursed in some way.

Monospar Restoration Team
Newark Air Museum
Drove Lane
Winthorpe
Newark
NOTTS
NG24 2NY
UK
Thank you for your potential input to this project!

Kenneth,

The most recent request was for detailed shots of the cabin roof hinges, door hinges and wing folding mechanisms. This involved using a hydraulic platform to access the airframe, which I believe is suspended from the museum roof in Denmark.

I will make the restoration team members aware that you may have some useful photographs and ask for their current requirements.

Thank you for indicating that you may be able to assist! 🙂

I don’t know about everyone else but since I’ve been posting on this thread I’ve had some cracking ‘adverts’ come up for sheds and summerhouse https://www.sherwoodsheds.co.uk/ 😀 (I did my bit for forum funds, did you?)

In a similar vein, I know of a dedicated set of volunteers who’d be delighted if anyone could turn up a set of drawings for a General Aircraft Monospar ST12 – even with a well restored set of parts the challenge of refitting them in a functioning manner is enormous!

Progress is being made thanks to their ingenuity and some photographic input from a co-operative museum curator in Denmark!! 🙂

😉 ….. but I do have a plan!!!! :diablo: