I’ve been slowly working on the rebuild of an Australian DAP Beaufort nose rebuild for eventual inclusion in a local history museum in southern New South Wales, Australia.

Starting with a nose glazing section recovered locally, from one of the many aircraft scrapped nearby after WW2, I’ve traced the history of the section involved, being a 7 Squadron combat veteran. Other components have been located throughout NSW and Victoria. I have access to the restored and unrestored nose sections held by the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin, which have been very handy in establishing fine detail placement and measurements. A jig is being fabricated to aid the reconstruction. I’m fortunate in having access to facilities where I can have replacement perspex blown.

There’s not much to see at the moment, but I’ll post pics as the project moves forward. Boxes of parts don’t make for exciting photos. Here’s a pic of the numbered glazing section when I acquired it.

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And a picture of the aircraft from which this section came, A9-131, Saucy Sue.

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I’m on the lookout to acquire or purchase any suitable nose section components that may help bring this project to completion, for display as part of the story commemorating the role of people from the Riverina district of NSW in the Second World War and beyond. I can be contacted here or by private message. Thank you.

Cheers,
Matt

This is an excellent project Matt. It will be wonderful to reconstruct this rare nose section, especially as you have plenty of original structure to start with, plus its identity.

I look forward to following your progress.

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Hi Michael

Would definitely be interested in two off 🙂

Jeepman – If you look closely the outside is masked with what looks like paper, IIRC this a Shorts original factory photo

David – I’m with Credible Sport…I’m lost

John

😀

The interconnected lamps you were asking about, reminded me of the ‘talking tubes’ used in ships.

Or alternatively, we have found another commonality between the similarly robust ships of the time….. 😉

A speaking tube or voice-pipe is a device based on two cones connected by an air pipe through which speech can be transmitted over an extended distance. While its most common use was in intra-ship communications, the principle was also used in affluent[vague] homes and offices of the 19th century, as well as expensive[vague] automobiles, military aircraft, and even locomotives. For most purposes, the device was outmoded by the telephone and its widespread adoption. This device was also known as a “megaphone”, but that use has since become superseded

thanks Cees

I have an update to do to this thread but the Forum issues are preventing me at the moment 🙁

John

Seems its possible if you host the image elsewhere, and paste in a link:

I do not know this work but, please, do not tell me that the author’s forename is Nigel!

I’ve just looked the name up. Haha! Not the same “author” 🙂

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I have just read the article in Aeroplane and her comments leave me concerned. She certainly has a museum background with an aviation interest but lacks the knowledge of an enthusiast who has been around the historic aviation scene for a reasonable time.Perhaps I should put my name forward to help organise the RAF 100 celebrations,a shame I live at the other end of the Uk from Hendon otherwise my suggestion would become a real prospect. I wonder what the museum and MOD would think of creating an action group of informed stalwarts to guide the centenary into becoming a really special event.?

If the new head of the RAFM is wondering where to find a Stirling, she should consult a senior member of her staff who visited the Stirling Projects workshop at Alconbury. Our registered charity, with the sole purpose of re-creating a forward fuselage has a long standing relationship with the RAFM and is the best opportunity to see this come to fruition.

This was unearthed yesterday on a building site at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton and I’m trying to identify it. A couple of posters on ww2aircraft.net have suggested late mark Spitfire. Is this forum able to shed any more light?

The inner side has a stamped serial number on AH 41612 and the rear hub bears two marks AH 40623 Iss 4 and XRD2513m There are other marks but they will need some TLC before they’re fully visible.

Untitled by Darren Lewington, on Flickr

Untitled by Darren Lewington, on Flickr

Hi,
The part number for the early type, three spoke vampire main wheel is:

AH8218 (pre-mod 842) and AH9139 (post mod 842)

This wheel does look like this wheel fitted to mark 1, 3, and FB5 vampires.

Jon Howard has a pair for his project. These numbers can be cross checked.

Hi All at the FAAM,

This is superb work you are doing here. It is a real pleasure to see such a high quality of engineering going on.

All the best of luck,