I think you’re barking up the right tree with Avon. BR prefix certainly sounds like it should be an Avon part number but I’ve only got Avon 100 series parts catalogues so as it’s Lightning it’s not listed in mine.
Again, it physically looks like it could be Avon as well although our Mk109 engines all have single bushed roots on the rotor blades and not double.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful?
Maybe LPG at Bruntingthorpe could confirm?

Regards
Chris

Oh hang on….found this in my stuff here

Avon 109:-

Weight – 1180kg
Length – 3.53m
Diameter – 1.09m (maximum)

well that’s something for the time being anyway.

Regards
Chris

Assuming that Canberra WK163 makes it back servicable from 39(1) PRU sqd disbandment this week at RAF Marham, which I’ve no doubt she will 😉 , she’ll be there on Saturday….display only no landing.

Regards
Chris

Hopefully Chris ‘109ster’ will be popping in over the next few days, and will tell us all about his trip in her on Friday,’gives the pilot a bit of confidence if the Sooty goes up for the first flight after an engine strip!’
Luck b……..! No, he deserves it after ALL the effort he has put in over the years, and the WHOLE team deserve a BIG pat on the back for all their efforts in putting her back where she belongs.

Cheers, Alan.
Ps there are some pics of the take off on the Classic Flight web site. http://www.classicflight.com.

Yes we made it at last 🙂 , a bit later than we’d have hoped for but a safe and servicable aeroplane always takes precidence over airshow appearances as I’m sure everyone will understand.
Our team’s work and dedication has already been rewarded by a faultless Test Flight on Friday, and the opportunity to join the PR9’s in a tribute to the Canberra’s incredible and oustanding 55 years in frontline service at Waddington over the weekend.
Hopefully our efforts will be matched in kind by support from the airshow organisers and the Public in the coming seasons and we will be able to continue to put a Canberra into the UK skies for all to see.

Regards all and enjoy the shows.
Chris

that reminds me.. when i was a nipper i used to have model aircraft hanging from my bed room celing.. if they was bottom heavy and you got the centre of gravity wrong they used to go into a zoom climb… is that what happend to the Lightning i wonder…. 😀 😀 😀

mmmmm…..maybe the wire holding the tail up has broken? 😀

I suspect that the capital cost of the airframe and spares is a mere fraction of the ongoing annual costs.
tc

The tip of the iceberg as you rightly suspect.

Chris

Mmmmmm, maybe I haven’t been looking for BSF spanners with as much dedication as I work with them?
Thanks all for the pointers, I thought they were a rarity but have been able to get hold of BA quite easily.
Problem is, my spanners are very much a mixure of odds and ends, many have been ‘modified’ to gain access to those hard to reach (and see!!) areas and have probably been used on an almost daily basis since they were new. Indeed the jaws have suffered and the chrome is long gone!

Thanks to those friendly chaps at the CAA, we will be stripping our Avons down on a yearly basis now and I thought a nice new set of quality spanners were the order of the day 🙂
Of course the museum pieces will be retained for those special, dark, hard to reach corners 😀

Chris

Another point of interest is that it’s dead easy to get brand new BA sockets and spanners but almost impossible to get BSF / Whitworth?
Unless anyone knows where I can get new BSF and Whit tools from? I’d be eternally grateful

Chris