Hi

‘ Unless the USA example miraculously turns up in a Pensacola scrapyard’

I contacted someone who did some local research which seemed to imply that the scrapyard was cleared in the late 60’s/early 70’s, but that’s not to say there isn’t the remote possibility it went to another yard.

I personally think it more likely that the ‘P6994’ peregrines will turn up in the power boat given the USA enthusiasm for the racing… or an old boat yard…

forgot another two , Hunter P7009 went down off eddystone light & P7091 Clarke off lands end i think.

I still think the Smith / Vine / Crooks a/c would yield the best parts, ( if permission were even to be allowed ), especially as the recorded crash locations are wrong which has preserved the sites from wreck hunters.

Other options maybe Brown’s a/c P7095, this or substantial parts went to Rechlin for investigation, and then probably local scrap.
And the rumoured captured a/c seen in late 44 at chateufort (?) a/f france, this would likely have gone to a local scrapyard.
Cheers
Jerry

Cheers
Jerry

whirlwind rambles

Hi
As we have a topic which mentions the loss of P6980 & F/O Britton,
I would like to add a theory, 263Sq were based at Exeter at the date of the crash and there were local firing ranges at sandy bay in 1940 ( see link for location of sandy bay http://www.newhols.com/how-to-find-us.asp ) , 😀
I have often wondered if F/O Brittons crash location is just an assumption made post war researchers, ( like the theory of P6994 never having reached the USA 😉 ) unfortunately, I can’t locate any local records that would prove/disprove the theory of P6980’s location. :confused:
It seems odd to me to fly all that way, when there are firing ranges just ‘ down the road ‘, ( of interest the GRU were also stationed at Exeter )
Secondly, I think the well known land sites 😉 will yield more parts for a rebuild , than any sea site, ( although true, a nacelle of P6969 was brought up many years ago now.) but realistically only when sufficient technology / cash is available for land recovery, will a whirlwind then be re-built.
It would be nice to see steve vizard whirlwind re built, but being realistic again , it has been out of it’s crash hole for about 26 years ……
I often wonder if anyone has investigated the crash sites in France.
Cheers
Jerry

Sadly this one has run its course…..nothing there anymore….just imagine what I would like to say to the ATC unit that scrapped the peregrines!!

Hi,
My apoligies for resurecting an old thread but I have been away from the board for a while, I missed the post about the ATC unit scrapping them, any details ? my last info on the engines was they were re used in a test rig and were in storage at westlands.
Of interest I was recently e mailed a photo of the whirlwind before it went ‘underground’ and it was pretty well intact, lacking engines of course, can’t post due to any copyright prob’s.
As a final note the ATC weren’t the worst offenders………

In 1970, when a RN technical college, nr Plymouth , was tidying out it’s instructional airframes it offered a cockpit to the RAF, as they thought it was of historic interest, but the RAF turned down a complete whirlwind cockpit, we have plenty of them…….. ( presumably they thought is was a helo )
A true story, as a family relative worked there at the time and offered me the chance to sit in the cockpit before it was burnt in a fire fighting demonstration on a base family open day…..
Sadly I had no camera in those days.
Ironic really I suppose not wanted by the RAF in 1940 and again 30 years later……

But I would love any info on the ATC unit and the scrappies, or if anyone has anything on the whirwind captured by the luftwaffe and seen near Paris in ’44,
Please post..
Cheers
Jerry

Bruce: Thanks for the info will try and trace down this KLNJ3/8 pulley do you perchance have a company name that produced these?

Mark 12: Thanks for the info as well. It all helps to restore a lovely aircraft.

Just to clarify the bearings are for the larger control cable pulleys in the tail mounted on Frame 20 and on a U channel between Frame 20 and 21

Hi
from a web search

aviationsupplies.ca
http://www.aviationsupplies.tzo.com/cox/ProductListZoom.asp?RecId=18056
Cheers
Jerry

useless fact

Hi,
Not sure of the technical ins & outs, but apparently, industrial gas turbine engines are also used as pumps/compressors.
Large electric motors drive the PTO shaft, and the compressor section , pumps and/ or compresses gas for the pipelines across europe.
Cheers
Jerry

name

Hi
Is this the end of ‘spitfire’ beer 😉
cheers
jerry