Nice but I worry its a tiny nail in the coffin of Aviation archeology , it only needs the wrong sort of ‘jobs worth’ to see it.

I wish I had their faith in the current digital storage medium, Iv’e got a stash of discs and hard drives I cannot get into.
Negatives seem very robust to me.

They feel the need to lock away these items and ask for photos to be removed as they ‘get off’ on keeping people away from their property, a bit like farmers.
Its because ultimately they have little lives and small hearts.

Ian/Pat,
I think the cast that the article/person was referring to was the spar lugs. As you know there are 8 rather large castings to fit into the 3″ carry throughs. Looking at the drawings they were roughly ‘stamped’ to shap and then the final details/finishing made. I have been looking into this for years and they are just a little too big for the contacts I have so would need a company with larger equipment.

As for the tubes there are a number that are rolled, they have different specs e.g. A.Std 183/Y, A.Std 183/W etc.

2 1/4″ (14 swg),
2″ (17 swg),
1 1/4″ (17 & 20 swg),
1 1/2″ (17 & 20 swg),
1 3/8″ (17 swg),
1 3/4″ (20 swg)

Will be mailing later Ian/Pat

I have just been to MAN Diesel’s [ Paxman’s Colchester] open day [ my son is an engineer there] and they have just started to new build the big Paxman diesel engines the castings [ quite big ] are done by Hadleigh castings [Suffolk].

I’d say it was the government of the time. Churchill’s cold memo repeated below shows how willing he was to betray what he had supported for years.

One can see through how Churchill again changed his stance, Precise military objectives were only a real possibility with the coming of Wallis’ Tallboys.
I wonder if the fact that these had shown their worth influenced his decisions.

Just a thought… can not the offending posts be removed from the old thread so that the main points of the original discussion be available for all to see? We’ve seen other posts edited, so why not this one?

Far from trying to teach the legal eagles at Key on how to do things, but surely it would it be useful for a magazine of FlyPast’s standing to be associated with the efforts, not only of members here, but with the exposure via the BBC, with trying to stamp out this trade? I doubt it’ll completely stop the unsuspecting getting ripped off, but surely its better than letting these dubious sellers get away with it…?

Cheers
Pete

I think you underestimate the seriousness of legal action, don’t forget it protects the injured party, how many times have we heard people getting let off because evidence was disseminated in public?

I’m not trying to stir anything, and I am certainly not an engineer, but I thought people might like to see the response I recieved from the FoF museum Re: RS712 just this morning:

Thank you for your message. Mr. Weeks’ Mosquito is in Oshkosh Wisconsin and will likely remain there for quite a while as there are no plans at this time to restore it in the foreseeable future although it is hoped that it is a candidate for restoration. Apparently, there has been quite a bit of delamination that had taken place to make it not airworthy and it will take much time and money to bring it back to flying condition.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still thank god it’s in his care and it still exists, Kermit Weekes’ efforts are laudable.

believe me its from experience, I was not trying to be unkind, my life has been constantly messed up by them [ not any more thankfully] and I wouldn’t name and shame [not on here], and I have worked with enough to be general and pretty accurate.
Sorry.