You missed this one!
Paris Airshow 2003.
Guy

Poor old GANJA

I had a similar experience, and was in love immediately. She was much nicer than a shiny restored example. So original.
I hope these pictures work.
Guy (Sad)

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WD 40

I think it’s rubbish.
I sprayed a surface plate with it, and guess what? It went rusty.

And that was IN the garage……

Cleaned it and wiped it with engine oil, and it has been perfect ever since.

It certainly has some uses on certain electrical components, but I can see it being totally useless if open to the elements.
Guy

All talk

That stuff is like gold to restorers..Building an aircraft from scratch is like a jigsaw puzzle in reverse.Look what Cees has done and the Stirling guys,also the Bluebird crew at what they do.Get the outside shape done then start filling in the details.The amazing Whirlwing Cockpit replica is what can be done.

I agree, but with respect, this thread is all talk, and is all jolly nice. But it is a long long way from a Whilrwind, and one certainly isn’t going to materialise out of my two boxes of twisted junk!

Of course my bits would be available to any serious project, they only need to 1. ask, and 2. convince me that it is indeed happening.

I have after all stored the damned stuff for nearly 30 years. I’m not about to stick it on ebay!

But to be realistic for a moment, without drawings, and without a detailed photographic record, I suspect that the Whirlwind will remain ‘lost’ unless the world hides something somewhere that is a little more tangible.

The best we can hope for, is that somebody throws significant time and money into a look a like.

And then some bright spark, not involved in the ten year build, would probably stall it in low level aerobatics on the airshow circuit , and we would have to start all over again anyway!

Did I say that:D
Guy

Extinct Aircraft

Surely if people generally set their sights a bit lower it might work.

Most people would say that building a Stirling or Whitley was beyond them. But given the right drawings and encouragement, perhaps a port outer wing section might not.

If every interested individual or organisation concentrated on a specific part, and left others to do the rest, the whole could perhaps come together.

What it does mean is getting one’s head around the idea of not ‘possessing’ the end product, which I suspect would be a biger hurdle.

Guy

DH.14 Okapi

Wow that’s a good lead!

I had it down for a Horsley too, but you are right, it is very early.

If correct, that would put it down to two, possibly three aircraft.

I wonder where they were broken up. I always thought Croydon was a good possibility, as it came from the loft of a cinema in Sutton that was being pulled down. There ere a few props, but this one, being so big was the ugly duckling, and had ended up stashed outside in the garden. I got it for £60 in about 1976.

Any more suggestions?

Guy

Typhoon Cockpit (Car Door)

Fab pictures, I’m glad I posted mine now.

I only included the supposed identification, as what I hd gleaned from the earlier posts. However Peter Smith I believe had 2x sections, so perhaps it is the other one, which was not car door. There is so much miss information.

I just wanted to include in a post, what I knew to be true from my involvement, as I was there when we recovered it.

I agree, there was no ID at the time of rescue, but still a superb artifact.
It would be interesting to learn more about it.

Most of the rest of the yard seemed to be bulldozed, as everything was wanted BIG money for, so little was sold.

I think Jim managed to get the Typhoon for £25 and a Wellington turret for another £25….

Yes the man wearing a Wellington Boot on his arm 😮 is Jim Howard. I wonder where he is now?

Guy