Does a Cub have instruments? 😉

Re: Blackburn Beverley, Southend.

Instruments in cockpit

Cor! there are some memories there!

I used to regularly visit the museum when I was a whippersnapper in the early-mid ’70s and used to love going in the Beverley.

Back in those days if you continued past the museum and went around the corner, you could drive straight onto the airfield (unchallenged!) we used to go that way to meet up with my Grandfather at work (Channel Airways)

Very nice blue T4 flew over RAF Wyton at 14.55 en-route to Coventry.

Brian

Missed it, drove past Wyton on my way home at 15:15!!

Absolutely.

Total miracle I’m here at all. One long catalogue of defying gravity and escaping mortality by luck and good fortune.

If I had any sense I’d stay on the ground.

Have I told you about my Qualifying Cross Country and the Snowstorm?

Moggy

Every PPL has a Qualifying Cross Country Story!

Amazing how our paths diverged from there, but we end up bumping into each other here.

You’ll remember me 😉 I was the useless cadet whose headphone lead got trapped in the canopy on my first flight 😮

Moggy

I assume that this kind of escapade has been a recurring theme throughout your aviation career? 😉

If you fired the NOx at sea level then you would get a power boost over and above the rated output, but it was obviously used, much in the same vein as a Super/turbo charger to give back some of the tail-off of power at altitude.

There is a view that using NOx isn’t too detrimental as the cooling effect offsets the additional heat created, but the strain on the reciprocating parts must be taken into account.

I am mystified why the ‘Compound’ engine didn’t really get developed, where the exhaust gases are passed through an impellor directly attached to the Crankshaft (a la Constellation)