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October 4, 2013 at 10:35 pm in reply to: Just how rare are Merlin engines? #1014425

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How about Meteorite engines, they run on diesel so maybe a few more miles to the gallon.

I wonder what fuel they are going to run the Aeroboat engines on. I don’t imagine they are going perform that well (or last long) on regular pump gas at sea level. Is leaded Avgas legal for non aviation use in the UK?

October 4, 2013 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Just how rare are Merlin engines? #1014429

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Reverse engineering a Merlin would be a walk in the park compared to whats involved in say designing and building next years new V6 Turbo/MGU Formula One engines from scratch

As I see it there are only three hurdles to building new Merlins:
1 – money
2 – convincing the people with advanced powertrain design and engineering resources to get involved with an aviation engine
3 – money

In the mean time 51 Factory in the US has a very impressive stash of parts and engines: http://www.51-factory.com/inventory.htm

September 27, 2013 at 4:26 am in reply to: Lancaster Revival? #937718

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The problem with an airworthy Lancaster is that it has four merlins which makes the running costs fairly brutal for one airframe. For roughly the same amount of money and hanger space one could operate maybe three or four single seat fighters depending on what one chose. Still, it would be wonderful to see one flying it this part of the world.

Someone mentioned Mr Jackson in an earlier post which reminded of this photo of a prop (bad pun) from the dambusters remake. I’ve no idea of the current status.

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July 6, 2013 at 11:59 pm in reply to: Expensive German warbird #938811

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I see now, it seems Mittelwerk (and no doubt other ex factories) had a number of sticky fingered visitors after the reunification of Germany in the 90s.

July 6, 2013 at 2:25 am in reply to: Expensive German warbird #939436

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A LOT of original FW material came out of Germany about 10-12 years ago; much of it having been rescued from underground factories; some more stuff came out of Russia too, including a few surface wrecks.

+1 on the underground factories. I’m aware of the Russian recoveries and some of the stuff dug up in Germany like the Frankfurt engines, but I thought the old factories had long since been cleaned out.

Can you elaborate further Bruce?

June 20, 2013 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Surviving Drawings List #953800

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While the digital medium is not ideal for long term archival purposes, the fact that it can readily be made accessible to anyone around the world is a huge plus. I think it is worth drawing attention to the Avialogs project in Canada as one possible pathway to achieving this. After all, if no one can access the drawings, then whats the point of preserving them?

http://www.avialogs.com/

April 14, 2013 at 1:14 am in reply to: Arthur Bentley Tempest Drawings #936994

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By a stroke of good luck I have managed to contact Mr Bentley and he is indeed alive and well.

There is a problem with his website which he is aware of but hasn’t changed as he has a new site under construction. He hopes to have this operational soon.

He also has a new printer that can handle A1 sheets

April 6, 2013 at 12:37 am in reply to: Lockheed P-38 Lightning #942387

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I have also been considering a drawing set (not P-38) from the NASM, but I’m a bit weary of committing to them sight unseen.

Was that price for all available P-38 drawings or just for a particular model?

How legible are the drawings? The quality of the original paper to microfilm transfer in the US seems to have been a mixed bag going by an F6F drawing set that I have seen (maybe 50% readable at best)

http://airandspace.si.edu/research/arch/collections/techdraw/mfilm.cfm
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