Hi

Lexan is just one of many trade names for polycarbonate sheet. If you contact any plastics supplier they should be able to supply your needs quite cheaply.

If you are anyware near to Leicester, we may even have what you need in our workshop, if you can collect it.

Ritch.

Speaking from a personal prospective, we would love to do more events with our Chipmunk cockpit, but, it is very costly to attend any show when you add up the transport and personal costs, not to mention valuable time and the wear and tare on the cockpit and trailer etc, which needs constant attention. Also, we very rarely see much of any event we attend as we are so busy with the cockpit, that is why the Saturday evening at Newark is so valued by all who attend, when we all get to chat and look at each others cockpits.

The summer in the UK is all to short, and with family and work commitments, weekends are valuable and have to be divided to avoid divorce and / or bankruptcy.

Hi

Totaly agree with Anon, air is compressable, so the pressure tends to build untill it overcomes the load and it’s off like a big spring, all that stored energy. Hydraulics on the other hand will just give a positive displacement, in other words, they will move the ram only by the amount of fluid pushed into it, so it’s far more controlable.

Just want to send a very big THANK YOU to Howard, Bill and all the other guys and gals who work so very hard all weekend and put up with us all.

We couldn’t help but notice whist strolling around the Museum in wonderfull sunshine on Saturday evening how good the whole place was looking, I am told this is down to a couple of volunteers in particular, so please make sure they know that they are dooing a brilliant job.

A great selection of cockpits, and good to see all our friends again and we had hundreds of kids big and small sitting in our Chipmunk cockpit over the weekend, lots of smiles and hundreds of photos taken for family albums. It’s what it’s all about for us..

On a personal note from the Chippy crew, no award was ever more deserving than Andy Blair’s J.P. One of the nicest guys you could ever meet and a good friend he opitomises the guys who plug along year after year in a garage at home and on a tight buget, both your wife and your own smiles on Sunday afternoon where great to see, well done and I hope you survived Pullys man hug un-scathed!!!!

And to Heather and Niel at Lake’s Lightnings, all our love and best wishes for you and your upcoming event, we think the world of you guy’s and are realy happy for you.

Roll on next year,
Thanks again Ritch and Mx Blood.