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January 16, 2016 at 9:22 pm in reply to: Halfpenny Green Wings & Wheels cancelled #864664

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I did a long interview with the local paper yesterday. They had already spoken to the Airport Manager, who confirmed that his decision had nothing to do with the change of ownership, one property company for another, but he declined to give his reasons, other than to say it had been a hard decision.

January 16, 2016 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Halfpenny Green Wings & Wheels cancelled #864813

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It was. The guy was just held there tied in with a couple of ropes, he was there to empty the bag of poppies. I was sat right behind him. As we ground looped towards a Piper Warrior which was being refuelled, I wondered if I had my knife in my pocket to cut him free in the possible conflagration. Luckily we missed the Piper but hit the fence.
We are open 10 am to 4 pm every Sunday

January 16, 2016 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Halfpenny Green Wings & Wheels cancelled #865024

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Yes we had the Storch, and we twice had an AN-2, the last time I went with it back to Tatenhill after a poppy drop and it ground looped and ran into a fence post. The wife was wondering where I was, and wasn’t best pleased when I said I’d just been in an air crash. Baxterley is still operating, run by the pilots, I think. StART have removed everything we had stored there. Come and see us at Tettenhall, Rob, we have another cockpit open for visitors this Sunday, the Vampire

January 14, 2016 at 7:46 pm in reply to: Halfpenny Green Wings & Wheels cancelled #866218

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Ahhhh , Rob ! Now that’s a good idea ! We were trying to think of ways of getting the Harrier to Halfpenny Green (Taxiing all the way, and hopping over hedges and roads ?). Why not, indeed, take the show to the Harrier. We started out on a farm strip, at Abbots Bromley, and on the fourth one had 200 aircraft land during the day. We know the owner, so you may have started something.

January 14, 2016 at 12:28 am in reply to: Halfpenny Green Wings & Wheels cancelled #866908

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Halfpenny Green has indeed been sold to another developer, but the airport manager assures us that this had no bearing on his decision to stop us holding the Wings & Wheels there. We are looking at other venues, but are naturally reluctant to stray too far from our home. One of the possibilities we are considering is to hold an aerojumble at the Heritage Centre.

December 21, 2015 at 7:57 am in reply to: 75 Years of the ATC at Tettenhall THC #885351

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Finger trouble, it’s actually WZ755.

December 5, 2015 at 7:59 am in reply to: Bristol Bulldog Made Out Of T188 Jet – True Or False. #895038

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hi,

i think you are referring to a PhD thesis by Les Whitehouse, a BP engineer which was in the BP archives, which I found when I was writing my own Putnam history of the Company. I only photocopied some chunks of it for my own purposes. The weighty tome is I suppose with the archives which were donated to the RAF Museum and as far as I know are in store in Stafford

November 20, 2015 at 8:05 am in reply to: Bristol Bulldog Made Out Of T188 Jet – True Or False. #906240

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The brochure arrived yesterday. The fragment of Overstrand spar and further information on Boulton & Paul steel techniques, are parcelled up before me, and will be sent today

October 26, 2015 at 8:08 am in reply to: Bristol Bulldog Made Out Of T188 Jet – True Or False. #846031

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I have quite a lot of information about B & P’s pioneering metal aircraft technology. I will see if I can photo-copy it. I don’t know how to post photos on the Forum, but I could e-mail you pictures, if you pm your e-mail address. One of the spar pieces I swopped for a section of Wellington Geodetics. The other three (plus the new small piece) are on display in the Tettenhall Transport Heritage Centre. The only other bits of B & P steel structure I know of are the R.101 pieces which Shuttleworth hold, a R.101 piece which I think Fenland still have, a five long wing section in the Science Museum, which doesn’t have a provenance but might be Bluebird IV, and the P.10 wing and tailplane held by the Bridewell Museum in Norwich, but the latter are B & P’s first attempt at a metal airframe, dating from 1919, so are not typical. There used to be a display of all the sections B & P made in the Science Museum dating from 1927, but these parts were returned to the Boulton Paul Association who are in the process of dispersing their collection across the country, so I have no idea where these parts may be.

October 25, 2015 at 6:41 am in reply to: Bristol Bulldog Made Out Of T188 Jet – True Or False. #846556

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I acquired four pieces of Overstrand spar from an aircraft that crashed at RAF Bicester, and had been used by a farmer as beams for his shed. They varied in length from about 3ft to 6 ft. In preparing them for display I cut off the ragged end of one which had broken, whether in the crash or in scrapping the aircraft I know not. The small piece, about 5 in. long, slightly bent, I cut off this ragged end for the new display, left the rusty remainder, about 7 in. of broken spar. You can have this in exchange for the Sidestrand brochure to go with our display.

Boulton & Paul did sell their technology to other companies, both Saro and Blackburn used their system. In fact B & P built the Bluebird IV wings and the London flying boat wings. They also received royalty payments covering some of their metal patents. Hawker paid them royalties, early on, for some of their spar patents.

October 23, 2015 at 10:29 am in reply to: Bristol Bulldog Made Out Of T188 Jet – True Or False. #847488

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This thread is very interesting and has extraordinary resonance with me at the moment, as I am currently preparing a small piece of Boulton & Paul Overstrand spar for the Tettenhall Transport Heritage Centre’s display ‘What are aeroplanes made of ?’ It has the identical section to the drawing of the Bulldog spar, and illustrates how Boulton & Paul sold their steel strip system to other companies

September 19, 2015 at 10:11 pm in reply to: Defiant Day #874121

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Tickets are £1 each and cheques should be made payable to the Tettenhall Transport Heritage Centre. We will have 5 cockpits open on the day, apart from the ‘walk-in’ Balliol, and the adjacent Cupcake Lane Cafe is celebrating their First Anniversary, and have baked several hundred cakes. Reason enough to visit by itself !

September 18, 2015 at 10:44 pm in reply to: Defiant Day #874823

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Anyone can apply for tickets by post, though we can only accept, cheques or cash. The draw will not be made until a week after Sunday 27th. Address TTHC, 35 Blakeley Ave, Wolves. WV6 9HR,

May 27, 2015 at 5:46 pm in reply to: VW aero-engine on a Spectrum ? #902157

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If Ferdinand Porsche didn’t design the Volkswagen, who did ?

May 22, 2015 at 4:39 pm in reply to: VW aero-engine on a Spectrum ? #905787

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I suppose Mr.Porsche knew a thing or two about designing engines. Ours will be even lighter because we will be leaving out the con rods/pistons etc., and displaying them separately
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