The hangar in picture 4 used by the glider club. Up to winter 1979 the old German hangar was complete and in use with them. An unusual load of snow unfortunately saw the wooden roof collapse on January 31st, 1979. Their fleet of aircraft was substantially damaged, and the current hangar was built in that year on the remains of the old one.
Good to see in picture 2 the yellow Rhönlerche I just restored and which features in another thread on this forum…
Thank you for that, had not seen them. Some mislabelled parts as well (a Grasshopper does not have a main wheel axle for instance), but very interesting supplier. There’s some parts there we may be able to use for another project waiting in the wings for when the T21 is finished…
It’ll be a bit longer than that. Port wing alone will be a year’s work (if not more). It looks like major sections of the D-nose need to be replaced completely due to water ingress damage… Luckily there’s four of us now working on the aircraft, not three.
Wrapping up the last work on the RH-wing. D-box is closed up again and ready, with only minor work left on the RH wing before putting new fabric on. Fuselage also nearly there. Cockpit has now been refinished and is almost complete with only the release knob, stick grips and instrument panel to go in.
Can’t believe nobody found this one. A Schleicher Ka.6Cr Rhönsegler with a modified canopy. Common as hell: about a thousand Ka.6s were built. Open House.
I doubt that the instruments without radium paint were destroyed, I guess the returned to the legal owner.
Because all instruments were fitted to a single panel, the whole panel was regarding as the item that posed a security risk. The whole panel was impounded and disposed of as radioactive waste. At great expense to the owner.
A word of warning is in place. Asking any government related agencies – even the fire brigade – to borrow a geiger counter will set all alarm bells off in this fast-changing world. You would not be the first to have his entire collection of instruments seized ‘for the investigation’. I know of a collector near here who had his entire collection of instrument panels impounded and destroyed because some of them were radio-active. One of his instruments had been intercepted in the mail as being radioactive…
We have 1 B-25 half fuselage at Darwin Aviation Centre in US markings as i recall and that is it for the type in Australia.
Actually, a complete aircraft with the rear fuselage currently not fitted. Hawg-Mouth, a well-known B-25.
Then there’s the two other B-25’s of the museum, sitting in storage. Both NEIAF, one is centre-section, wings, front fuselage. The other a front fuselage only and some parts.
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