Opening up a few inspection panels on a B-25 wing, we once found the remains of a remote compass (can’t remember what it’s called now but you know the wire-wound ring, split in three that is used on slaved heading gyro’s?). Now these remains were not properly attached to the wing structure, but were happily bouncing about inside the wing tip, and had been like that for a while probably!

Melvyn, the more I see/read about the Rearwin, the more impressive the story gets. Going back to the ‘make your own Rearwin’ cover that I once constructed, have you thought about a book like that? I’m sure that the story would be of interest to some, and the tips valuable to anyone connected to or interested in restoration.

Interesting topic.

VC10 XV105 is named in honour of Captain Albert Ball VC, and still flies with 10 Sqn, soon to be 101 Sqn.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/846843/L/

VC citation is on my site here: http://www.vc10.net/History/VictoriaCross.html#ball

Dreadnought?

On the 12th she was on the other side of the North Sea to act as an opener for the Red Bull Airrace in Rotterdam. Unfortunately the surroundings forced a rather high pass but it was good to see her anyway!

“I seem to have lost a Chipmunk…. has anybody seen a Chipmunk around here somewhere???” 😉

PS: This is not a toy ! 😮 This is a venerable Mitchell ! 😡

Don’t worry! I know! :rolleyes:

Getting hit in the head by a prop hanging on the front of TFC’s B25 at Alconbury in ’90. Part of the “pull it thru 12 blades” pre start malarky & some pillock couldn’t count. As I turned around to walk away he pulled it thru one more blade… CLANG!! I still have the scar.

You also learned that day that the twelfth blade should be left pointing upward! 😀