Mathieu

I have been looking for such a gauge for a while for our Lockheed Hudson if you’re enquiring about one that looks like this which is a fuel-air ratiometer and is fed by the Cambridge gas analyser coil which is an accessory to the engine of course.

I don’t know but would assume they’re generic to the period and perhaps US aircraft or some such class??

hope this is of some help and if you’ve access to such I’d be keen to hear from you.

Hi David,

When I was in Darwin in August 1998 for the Pacific Air Museums conference I was able to see the aircraft in conjunction with an old friend who was then living up there and just happened to be the historical officer of the RAAFVR unit that öwned it”. It was tucked away in a hangar fully of surplus housing materials (funiture) as there was a downsizing of personnel underway at the time and I attach a photo of it then.

He told us that the CO who had got the thing had upset the local aboriginal leaders when it was removed from the peninsula and so it was uncertain what (if anything) was to happen next. If I recall rightly the CO had lost interest in any further embarrasment/agro and so didn’t really want anything to happen while he was still around.

Hth

Hi guys,

I’m the Hudson man from Ferrymead and so have read this thread with interest. I saw Flypast’s caption recently that was a tad shy on the world Hudson numbers and I’ve confirmed my count with Ron Cuskelly of Queensland and David from ACAM Canada and here are the survivors and their locations as of our knowledge last week!.

Complete (or capable of so being)

Hendon UK A16-199
Temora Aust A16-112
Canberra Aust A16-105
Pt Cook Aust A16-122 plus bits of 022
Gander Canada BW769 (“T9422”)
MoTaT NZ NZ2031
Wigram NZ NZ2013
Ferrymead NZ NZ2035

Partial

Nova Scotia Canada FK466
Mapua NZ NZ2049

Just for the interest/record I’ve been beavering away on NZ2035 for some 20years now with interventions to build hangars for C47s and Viscounts and other bits of general impoverished museum activity.

The current thrust (and hopefully only another couple of days work) are the bomb doors which had to be completely deskinned to clean the inside faces. It appears 2035 had a stbd oil cooler failure at some time and the oil found its way into the doors where of course it settled and hardened at the lowest points. Then the dust and debris got in while the aircraft sat in the farm paddock for 20 years and once you add water you can imagine the result. Also with no wings she sat on the doors and was alos moved about a bit without too much care.

The next target is the turret (anyone got any detailed parts for the Boulton Paul type C?) I was in the UK in May and visited Hendon and York to lok at their turrets and the guys at the Air Gunners Museum were fantastic and a manual copy is due here shortly…great stuff blokes!

cheers for now