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January 13, 2005 at 5:45 pm in reply to: This Morning at Duxford (Thursday) #1426127

JonathanF
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Great shots Darren, got one of the Vulcan? Do you know how long these exhibits are going to stay outside for? and where’s the Haststacks gone?

The larger aircraft will be outside until such time as the AirSpace hangar is structurally complete. I have no details on the currently projected timescale, but we were scheduled to open the first phase sometime next year.

January 13, 2005 at 10:35 am in reply to: Aircraft Part, TEST wotizit #1427470

JonathanF
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RR Kestrel shaft?

January 12, 2005 at 11:55 pm in reply to: Unrifled Projectiles #1428174

JonathanF
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Andy, many thanks for this. The chap did have this diagram amongst his research, but there was no opportunity to take copies. I’m not sure there’s much we can do for him beyond pointing him to Firepower! and the naval equivalent whose name escapes me (its late!)

January 12, 2005 at 9:09 pm in reply to: Aircraft available for future preservation? #1428983

JonathanF
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More than a year ago now I tried to get RAF Lynham, Marshalls and Duxford interested in preserving a Herc. I suggested one of the tankers that Marshalls converted as a tanker for the Falklands would be ideal as a tribute to the company’s efforts (in 6 weeks?) I understood that they were near the end of their airworthyness. I was later told that 2 were scrapped. None of the places mentioned above replied.
mmitch.

I’m sorry you didn’t receive a reply, I’m not sure why that would be. I can anticipate the answer however; I would think the only circumstances in which DX would intervene to acquire an aircraft of that size were if it were a) to be scrapped (as in this case) b) not taken by an institution with available resources *and* the clincher, c) one of the very last examples of its type. Which sadly any Hercules would not be. The reasons are the usual of resources or various types. Had we acquired a Herc it would have had to go outside in a substantially unconserved state.

January 12, 2005 at 8:58 pm in reply to: What's in the box? ISO Container at DX today #1428999

JonathanF
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Whatever it is, I’m pretty sure its not IWM!

January 12, 2005 at 8:54 pm in reply to: Museums – money crisis? #1429009

JonathanF
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I can only agree completely JDK. In relative terms, the money available to museums goes down every single year, whilst the expectations of the public, the funding bodies and the professional museum world at large, go up.

To restate, only the high profile projects attract the sort of high-capital, one-off grants that are then perceived by the public to be mispent by the museums. When there was never any prospect of their particular favourite exhibit receiving a penny.

January 12, 2005 at 10:10 am in reply to: 3D artwork: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe – part 1 – Henschel Hs P.122 #1430814

JonathanF
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Superb work, I look forward to the publication.

January 12, 2005 at 10:04 am in reply to: Aircraft available for future preservation? #1430826

JonathanF
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It looked a bit like this when it first arrived……..

Safely under cover now though. When I get some spare time I’ll be doing some further research on ZA175. Most obviously it made a kill as an FRS.1 in the Falklands. I’m fortunate to have a print of the incident signed by ‘Sharkey’ Ward hanging over my desk.

January 12, 2005 at 12:16 am in reply to: Unrifled Projectiles #1431366

JonathanF
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Jonathan

The parachute and cable devices as fitted to HMS Hood were called UP launchers.

I know they were considered useless by the crew.
I have a diagram of one somewhere if you’re interested.
They were still in place in May 1941 when she was so tragically lost with all but three of the crew in the Denmark Strait.
Cheers
Andy

Andy, many thanks. If you have a spare moment to scan the diagram that would be great. One of the photocopies this chap had re Hood stated that they were removed in 1940, but I can’t trace their source at the moment; I had the opportunity to briefly look over his sources but not really to take copies, hence the confusion over the Z gun issue. I will seek some clarification re how similar the land-based versions were in my letter to him.

Information regarding the land-based versions (Malta, Southsea) would be fantastic of course. A surviving example of a naval launcher and/or one of the PAC rounds is I think what he’s ultimately keen to locate.

January 11, 2005 at 10:26 pm in reply to: Unrifled Projectiles #1431579

JonathanF
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Tsk tsk Jonathan!

AAA is a very incorrect term to use talking about WW2

It was then Ack-ack, or at the very worst AA

Moggy

I’m fairly sure they had typos in 1940 folks. Besides, ‘AAA’ as a modern term for the same kit is more anachronistic than it is incorrect, and no more so than, say..”WW2″… 😉

Back on topic, it seems that the chap in question was referring to certain ‘Z’ Gun Batteries (Southsea and Malta strangely enough, as evidenced by his log book) that employed Parachute and Cable (or Parachute Barrage Wire) style ammunition. He made reference to finding such a rocket as a child with wire and parachute inside.

January 11, 2005 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Aircraft available for future preservation? #1431588

JonathanF
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Yes, the Flixton SHAR is Duxford’s aircraft, and doing nicely in their new hangar.

January 11, 2005 at 1:12 pm in reply to: Unrifled Projectiles #1432634

JonathanF
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That’s the sort of thing, yes. Presumably that RAE project was developed from or in parallel with the Navy one though, as it seems they were pretty much contemporary. A colleague believes the system made one kill. It was abandoned on warships quite quickly due to lack of effectiveness, the risk of the things landing on friendly vessels, and (so this chap said) the extra amount of explosives perched on top of the vessel’s AAA emplacements.

Thanks for the replies, the PAC lead may prove fruitful.

January 10, 2005 at 9:40 am in reply to: Mystery gunsight #1434264

JonathanF
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If you could give the AM serial no., I or somebody else (our indicies are not complete, places like Hendon have full sets) could look up the section reference for it.

January 7, 2005 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Duxford's Concorde to be rolled out #1435849

JonathanF
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Indeed. BAe Systems are of course part of the AirSpace project, but other than that I’m unsure as to the implication ^

January 7, 2005 at 10:08 am in reply to: Duxford's Concorde to be rolled out #1436199

JonathanF
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Here’s the visitor info that’s gone up on the website:

http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1688
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