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January 7, 2008 at 9:49 am in reply to: Aircraft Instrument Panel Projects #1315292

Bluebird Mike
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Hopefully no one will mind if I’m cheeky and hijack this thread for a moment to repeat our appeal for a jet pipe temperature gauge for Bluebird!

Our own MarkG (lovely bloke) popped round recently and donated a similar but-not-quite-right gauge that may eventually serve as a panel filler, but meanwhile the hunt is still on for THE gauge, originally believed to have come out of Gnat XM691.

The actual gauge in situ in Bluebird-

-and a mocked-up image of what we’re looking for-

If anyone can help at all, please drop me a PM.

Thanks all- I’ll now return you to your excellent projects! 😎

January 5, 2008 at 8:19 pm in reply to: HURRICANE R4118 ORIGINAL or REPRO? #1316443

Bluebird Mike
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I have the book too, and it does seem to be at odds with itself at times, going on at length about originality, the seeking out of the right parts etc, and then talking about the large amounts of new structure etc!

I suppose that it’s as ‘new build’ as many WW2 aircraft are these days, but with some very tasty bits of an original Hurricane with a very good provenance.

But does that answer the original question? I doubt it! 😀

January 3, 2008 at 9:03 am in reply to: Is this the Last ? #1319283

Bluebird Mike
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Look, sorry, I really must protest, isn’t this a military historic forum, and isn’t that a civilian aircraft..?

Just kidding! I’m utterly ignorant, what is it please?

December 31, 2007 at 9:39 am in reply to: Gnat Starting Sequence #1323238

Bluebird Mike
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Dave, that would be brilliant mate, PM sent! 🙂

And LOL @ the jokers on the thread!!! 😀

December 31, 2007 at 12:19 am in reply to: Gnat Starting Sequence #1323461

Bluebird Mike
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Go and sit on the naughty step! 😀

December 25, 2007 at 9:30 am in reply to: What aeroplane stuff did you get for christmas #1329318

Bluebird Mike
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I got the BBMF 50th book by Jarrod Cotter, and the simply wonderful Hayne’s Spitfire manual- nice one, Fluffy!

Merry Christmas everyone!

December 18, 2007 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Good Home for a Replica Mosquito needed #1244518

Bluebird Mike
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Good luck with the re-homing Graham- any number of places should surely be falling over themselves to display such an item?

December 15, 2007 at 5:13 pm in reply to: Hilarious Mistakes On Screen #1246888

Bluebird Mike
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Just last night I wasted 2 hours of my life watching the tosh that is ‘Hannibal Rising’, in which the Stukas sounded like they had Merlin engines!

December 13, 2007 at 6:07 pm in reply to: What would be the ultimate find?? #1248610

Bluebird Mike
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And Peter, here’s your Lanc wheel mate, if you can afford it!

Lanc control wheel

December 13, 2007 at 6:05 pm in reply to: What would be the ultimate find?? #1248619

Bluebird Mike
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An intact-enough Stirling.

December 13, 2007 at 10:09 am in reply to: Company Name Needed #1249324

Bluebird Mike
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Yup, it’s Pyrene and this one is nailed, thanks!

(We were after the name of the company that did Bluebird’s fire system in 1966- the logo appears on her fire panel in the cockpit and on this van, and no one could make it out)

December 11, 2007 at 10:15 pm in reply to: What happens after ZZ999? #1251003

Bluebird Mike
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What happens after ZZ999?

We all have to buy bigger decal sheets! 😀

December 10, 2007 at 10:51 pm in reply to: WWII Bomber Command squadron codes – what font? #1252373

Bluebird Mike
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You could get another Airfix sheet and use the P from that.

December 9, 2007 at 10:07 pm in reply to: Company Name Needed #1253679

Bluebird Mike
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Brilliant- David, THANK YOU! 😎

December 5, 2007 at 2:34 pm in reply to: Looking for a Gauge… #1258348

Bluebird Mike
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They’re certainly better than anything I’ve seen to date so far!

Interesting though- Bluebird’s gauge has the ‘X100’ marking below the centre of the gauge, as in my pics above, not above as shown here on what I’ll take be the ‘standard’ Gnat EXH gauge.

I wonder if the fact that Bluebird was pieced together from XM691- a prototype T.1- means that her gauge was slightly different to the production aircraft?
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