Interesting solution to deal with the limitations of the DB conversion! Especially for a trainer this is a good idea, you can rack up the experience behind the Merlin and switch to the DB just for engine familiarisation training. One thing that I am wondering about: are all the engine instruments (especially the markings) common for both engines? Switching the engines is one thing but if that means a lot of reconfiguring inside the two cockpits it can still get to be a pain to do it regularly.

Edited to add: I prefer the look of the G-12 with the DB engine (I just realised…)

The holes look too neat for that. That is, I was never able to get a result like this! 😉

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course….. I must say that I enjoyed David McCullough’s biography about the Wright Brothers. Have you tried that one perhaps? :rolleyes:

His website implies that more were published about his 1950’s/60’s exploits. However I have never come across any, has anybody else?

I think that he originally had a different distribution of stories and titles in mind and set up his website as such. Perhaps Airlife, when they came to publish his stories, rearranged them to fit in the five books as they were published. If you look at the reviews for ‘More Than a Pilot’ on that site you’ll see that they refer to ‘his four previous books’. That leads me to believe that these five were all of them. The only thing that doesn’t compute is that there are also reviews for a novel by his hand. Perhaps the books were initially published on a small scale in Canada only.

I found my photos from 2006, didn’t think it was that long ago 🙂
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I went there a few years back and the two He-111s were in one end of hangar 1 then. I only saw hangars 1 to 5, both 6 and 7 were closed and the ‘zona helicopteros’ was an outside storage area where photography was not appreciated…. I was told off by one of the guards when I stuck my nose (and camera) around a corner.

The place is certainly worth a visit though!

I remember that there is one photo somewhere that shows a Hurricane being moved (without wings) towards an aerodrome (or being assembled), somewhere in the Dutch East Indies. As it is a head-on shot the markings cannot be seen. That is supposed to be the only photo of a Dutch Hurricane.

All of this type of calculation and analysis, is a “normal days work” for many engineers.
Within Europe, If only an enthusiastic engineer could take this up in his/her spare time. It would certainly take much of the cost out of it.

I agree, it is not rocket science. Having given this some more thought it is not a complete impossibility in Europe as obviously the Flugwerk Fw190s were registered in both Germany and France. I do wonder if that was done as a Focke Wulf Fw190 derivative or as a ‘new’ design.