Never heard of anybody ‘playing’ with avpin,although no doubt somebody has been dumb enough at some stage.
There was a story at Brawdy that some genius decided to start a ‘yellow peril'(single cylinder diesel hand operated,walk with tractor) using avpin to prime the cylinder instead of using engine oil and apparently blowing the head off the damn thing.There was a suitable sized patch in the hangar roof supposedly caused by the cylinder head passing through it…might be true,anybody confirm ??
The nasty thing about avpin is that an extinguisher would not douse flames because it is a monofuel and does not need oxygen to burn.

cheers baz

i highly doubt it was a regular occurence but i have heard several reports of it being done, every time Avon engines being the offender

Its not exactly aircraft related but i do have a photograph that my grandfather gave me of the 1945 RAAF 77 squadron cricket team!

Bugatti Veyron vs. Eurofighter Typhoon spring instantly to mind.

Not to mention throwing a Sea Harrier around the Top Gear test track (to technically become the fastest vehicle to take the course)…

Didnt they also run off an Areil Atom against an Edge 540 around the test track?

In Australia one day I am sure someone will seek to place a “CA-15” on static display, should that be a frame, skin and rivet “reproduction”, or simply an externally accurate FSM?

I personally will be more than satisfied to see the latter.

regards

Mark Pilkington

Personally id love to see a flying reproduction CA-15, by its acheived performance during testing it was pretty much the ultimate in piston engined fighters, 502 mph in level flight with an engine rated some 500hp lower than intended, with flight handling characteristics very similar to a P-51.

Surely it deserves to be resurrected even as a static replica, more as a tribute to Australian engineering capability if nothing else, ditto the Woomera bomber.

Thats my latest !, a lovely little cockpit from Harrier XV806. Originaly a GR1 later modded to GR3 status and based in Germany with 4 Sqn before coming back to the UK to Culdrose before being stripped….literally !…to examine fatigue life for the mid-life upgrade for the GR7 fleet. I have a laser nose and the sliding part of the canopy (less the perspex) but apart from that, what you see is ‘wot I got’ !.

My intention is to clean the framework, fit out the interior but NOT to add any skin. Nope, no cladding, no perspex as a skin, no ali, no nuffink, so’s the interior is not only on display but it gives you a chance to see how a plane is actually built (got the idea from the stripped F86 at the USAF Museum in Dayton last year on the way to GOML 2007)

She needs a bit of work (Nope…it wont be a Legends !) but I’m not in rush on this one as I’m just getting back into working on my Mustang after a break. Got to get this ready for the next ‘Fest as I’m hoping it will have a Warbird theme.

Ritch and Max, PM sent.

Ah exellent! great job your doing there too.

It had me going there for a little while as the structure looked for all the world like the nose section of the Type 544 that was pulled off a fire dump some years back, and a right state it was in too!, having been burnt a few times and the jet was in the process of being scrapped when someone finally realised what it was.

as a side note does anyone have any info and/or piccies of the Type 544 today?

Well its not entirely complete, theres no engine for a start.

Also the pod looks to be in very poor condition as is the cockpit interior, not liking either the statement that it was stored outside, corrosion appears rampant.

I recall a story on an RAAF Mirage III that got splashed by the gunnery target it had just attacked! apparently it copped an unexploded HE ricochet cannon shell into the middle fuselage where it oh so convieniently detonated, taking a large chunk of ATAR 9C with it.

suffice to say it didnt remain flying for too much longer, pilot ejected and it went down on the range.

also recall one about a pair of A-1 Spads managing to knock down a pair of MiG-17’s or -19’s in Vietnam.