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  • in reply to: Walrus at Hanwell? #1278871
    Solent Sky
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    Sadly we can’t hear either a Walrus, Seagull V or Sea Otter today

    I reckon we will one day.

    With any luck five to six years we’ll certainly hear it run if not see it fly.

    in reply to: Walrus at Hanwell? #1279252
    Solent Sky
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    Interesting photo.

    I had a long talk with Dick Melton last year. He told me he’d search high and low through out the late sixties, seventys and early eighties to find a Walrus.

    The only ones he came across were the two in the FAA Museum and RAF Museum plus he had a very strong suggestion that there was one or part of one in a canal outside Birmingham. When he arrived he spoke to a construction worker who confirmed there was an aircraft there but they’d burried it ‘under that’ and pointed to Spaghetti juntion.

    in reply to: Britain's First Aircraft Will Fly Again #1281813
    Solent Sky
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    I don’t think Cody ever used any plans or drawings himself. However the aircraft was drawn in detail by an Army draughtsman in 1909. It seems (as with so many protypes) the aircraft was constantly being altered so state of devlopment they were at on the 16th October 1908 is guesswork. The wing profile has had to be altered slightly on the advice of a CAA aerodynamisist, apart from that the aircraft will be pretty authentic.

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