All very quiet…

I’m only a stones throw from MAPS but their opening times can be a bit haphazard, I will pop over a see if anyone is there this weekend.

We have been scratching around for information (drawings mainly) on the Whirlwind spinners.

We believe them to be licence built V.D.M (of Germany) designs made by Constant Speed Airscrews (C.S.A).

Frustratingly the nacelles and spinners are poorly represented in the information we have, the spinners in particular. The profiles would have been drawn by Westland, but the fitting and construction would have been largely left to the maker.

Matt B might drop in with a bit more detail but I’ve briefly summed up the situation here just to get the ball rolling and cast the net out.

So does anyone know anything about C.S.A and what became of them? We only know that by the 1950s they were making alu kitchens, as seen here.

http://salvonews.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/salvofair-raf-hendon-and-english-rose.html

I can now fill you all in a bit further on what is happening. Thanks to a helping hand from the RaeS at Yeovil we are looking to hold our first AGM at Augusta Westland sometime within the first 3 months of next year this of course is also with the assistance of AW who have been very helpful in supporting this project. There will of course be more to come over the next couple of months and I will keep you up to date as things happen.:eagerness:

Very true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hector

Well Westlands built the odd Spit did they not>>>

Just a thought has anyone on the team contacted Flypast Magazine regards an article?

A good few ideas there matt

if so, there is a fair chance that a sizeable sum could be acquired by the museum for your project from external funding bodies especially if said museum has younger volunteers who could make parts whilst learning their skills from older tradesmen, or the museum has a Whirlwind link or some such.

Yeovil perhaps?