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March 31, 2025 at 11:22 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1108765

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Hi all, weekly update:)

Excellent progress made last weekend. Failed top hatch bolts drilled out and replacements ready to go in.
We had a to use diamond drill bits, the little suckers are tensile, really hard. We also finished off no2 engine
bay, with just a final clean and hoover up required next weekend. Usual anti deterioration exercises done too.
Next up is to finish the wiring
to no2 engine bay engine harnesses, before we close and bolt down the top hatch, in preparation
for the ventral tank being removed again, to finish no1 engine bay off.

Sorry for the picture quality, taken on a mobile phone:rolleyes:

No2 engine bay

no1 engine bay

top hatch open

March 31, 2025 at 11:18 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1107963

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Dont know much about the avon yet PJ. it’s going to be an investigation job to track the serial number back to the Lightning that it came from. All I know is, that it was disposed of via MOD disposals last year.

March 31, 2025 at 11:18 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1107834

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interesting you say that darren , because the place i found this 301, im fairly sure i spotted a slightly grotty lightning 200 series engine too, sat outside. Im sure it was a 200 series because it didn’t have the zero stage on it. Let me give the guy a ring this week and check for you. it’s grotty, but nothing a clean up wouldnt deal with…

March 31, 2025 at 11:17 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1107648

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🙂 yea youre right firebird, trouble is “doers” are hard to find, plenty want to chat, but few are prepared to get hands dirty, especially if the have worked on the blasted things before!:rolleyes:

great info re Steve bridger. any one know of a contact mail address for him??. I’m sure he would be made up to see one of the last few lightnings he flew, resurected.

March 31, 2025 at 11:16 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1107456

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oh wow, that is very kind of you indeed:). I will dig out some shots for you and pm them to you, or post them here, but for a quick overview, check out page 1 of this thread, the first two pictures give you an idea, its a very simple scheme.

March 31, 2025 at 11:16 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1107477

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nice simulator canberra!! great. How about rendering our F53 53-671 in Saudi colours?;)

daz, no worries, ill find out in the next few days for you. price wise, no idea m8, but we buy an awful lot of stuff from him, so I rekon he will probably give me a good deal. Without him, 579 project would never have got off of the ground, he has been absolutely pivotal in our hunt for new and serviceable Lightning spares, he’s a god send! plus a dammned nice fellow to boot:)

March 31, 2025 at 10:25 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1096784

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gentlemen, (and ladies)

something to keep your appetite moist, until our next update on 579. Some rare footage of 458 from the office. enjoy:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-QqkuKtQRw

March 31, 2025 at 10:14 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1094332

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This weeks news round up:D

plenty done today. final clean up of no2 engine bay, all pipes bagged etc, now awaits a lump. We also removed the stanby dc generator from the spine section for a complete overhaul. The geni was completely stripped by 5pm this eve, and has now gone away to have some replacement casings manufactured by c+c. We also have to approach Rotax for some new brushes, as they are a bit skanky, so why not just replace them with new ones.

some pics.;)

One stanby geni being removed form the spine…

next stanby geni pipework reinstalled..

next..a few from n02 bay, bagged , tagged and ready to rock…

one from the cockpit…

The saudi decals have started to go back on now too….

Thats all for this week. enjoy…;)

March 31, 2025 at 10:07 am in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1092911

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cheers guys. Saud decals, we had the intake warning signs made up with a CAD firm. The rest will be done on a decal machine.

March 31, 2025 at 10:06 am in reply to: Bruntingthorpe Latest #1092775

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looks grrrrrrr..eat!:cool:

March 18, 2018 at 1:24 am in reply to: Booker's Percival Pembroke #822945

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It was there for at least 5-10 years, and did circuits a few times a year up until 2002. I personally saw it, and did some work on it in 2004 at Carollton in a hangar. Owned by an Italian business man and private pilot with various aircraft, the Pembroke was undergoing restoration. It was still at Carollton in 2006, when we sent out a brand new fin from the UK for it to replace the one on the aircraft. The fin was promptly written off by the inept ground handlers at Delta, Atlanta, when they put a fork lift through the packing case! What happened to the aircraft after that, no idea, but suspect Mr Baldecera still owns it.

December 1, 2017 at 10:57 pm in reply to: Cranfield Lightnings #798618

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It’s not Cranfield. As far as I know, no F53’s from Warton went to Cranfield, since the rest (other than the 3 or 4 that got chopped), all went to Wensley Hadon Bayle . Only two aircraft had their arrestor hooks chopped , ZF583 and ZF578. Interestingly the flaps have been removed, likely before the wings were cut, and it still has the Warton covers fitted, along with the same polythene covering the gearbox exhaust duct, so this picture can only have been taken within months of it being moved from Warton. From the hangar in the back ground It does indeed look like ZF583 shortly after delivery to Carlisle by road.

https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/ZF583

November 30, 2017 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Cranfield Lightnings #799440

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It looks like 53-670 to me. A few of the F53’s were cut at Warton and gifted to museums by road in 1989-90. 670 was one of those, which went to Cardiff for a while, then to storage, and finally off to Tangmere, where it is now. I have seen photos of 670 during its move from Warton before missing the rear vent tank panel missing in this photo. The covers are originial from storage at Warton. It was litterally cut at the fin, and outboard of the gearbays, then loaded up.

The removed serial would have read ZF578

November 29, 2017 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Cranfield Lightnings #800153

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“Ollie, would it not be easier to do 10 seconds research and just find out, rather than always posting questions ?

This actual forum had a thread entitled, very conveniently, ‘Cranfields Lightnings’ . Maybe you were put off by the missing apostrophe.

https://forum.keypublishing.com/show…lds-Lightnings.

Any other questions, anything at all, don’t. Hesitate to ask. “

And that kind of attitude right there, is the reason why this forum has declined so sharply in recent years…..why so many individuals, groups and projects no longer actively contribute here anymore.

June 14, 2016 at 10:05 am in reply to: Feathering pump identification #852325

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Shack is different, smaller motor and pump assembly. Getting it rebuilt may be the way ultimately. It is for ground use, rather than flight yes
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