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  • August 31, 2011 at 10:40 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1024107
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    It’ll be the world’s newest T21 soon, not the oldest!:D:D:D

    Keep going boys, wonderful job.

    August 31, 2011 at 10:40 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1032049
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    It’ll be the world’s newest T21 soon, not the oldest!:D:D:D

    Keep going boys, wonderful job.

    August 29, 2011 at 11:34 am in reply to: Can Anybody Identify this Glider in the USA #1026147
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    Interesting! Not a Fauvel by the look of it. So no idea. Home designed & built?

    August 29, 2011 at 11:34 am in reply to: Can Anybody Identify this Glider in the USA #1034316
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    Interesting! Not a Fauvel by the look of it. So no idea. Home designed & built?

    August 23, 2011 at 10:36 pm in reply to: Production Engineering in WW2 #1040654
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    Production engineering tends to refer to “ease of production” in my book. In which case the Me 109 had far fewer parts than the Spit and I believe could be built in a fraction of the manhours. Too many curves in the Spit – lovely but…. And as for the Hurricane – all those tubes, bolts and fishplates. Couldn’t they have done a welded tube fus? Fokker could in 1916.

    I believe that the RAF had specified that their fitters must be able to replace damaged tube sections with their existing tools. Surely teaching some of them to weld would have been easier!

    Hey ho. I guess when the Spit and Hurri were designed, no one thought that they’d be produced in thousands by grannies. But Willi Messerschmit was obviously a bit more forward thinking.

    August 16, 2011 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Bristol Freighter remains at Enstone (old thread) #1051765
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    I would hope not too, otherwise the numbers of consrved aircraft would be a lot fewer and the number of bonfires a lot more

    August 16, 2011 at 1:43 pm in reply to: Bristol Freighter remains at Enstone (old thread) #1051856
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    Eric’s got very good reason for saying that :mad::mad:

    August 10, 2011 at 9:46 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1061412
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    Hi Eric

    I spent time talking to Martin Simons at the VGC International Rally last week(excellent rally by the way, got a bungee launch in the Hols der Teufel off the hill amongst other things).

    He remembers your T21 at Camphill well as he was learning to fly there around the same time (he nearly killed himself crashing a primary). He says that it was originally cream with translucent fabric (plus the club stripes on the rudder).

    He’d be interested if you got in touch. I’ve got his email address somewhere if you want.

    Dave

    August 10, 2011 at 9:17 am in reply to: Technology To Make New Merlin Engines…? #1061433
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    Yup you’ve got it mixed up. Forging squashes the grains together & aligns them. Better than machining from solid steel billet (produced by hot rolling), but I should imagine that modern steel specs could overcome that problem compared with a 70 year old forging.

    Casting, different story altogether. Pour molten metal into a mould. Good for complex shapes, hollow stuff etc but while strong in compression, is weak in tension. Grand for engine blocks etc but not for crankshafts.

    Must say I’m fascinated to hear that you can spark erode internal passages these days though!

    July 26, 2011 at 8:52 am in reply to: Heinkel Remains In Somerset Garden #1083874
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    According to the BBC news website this morning you’re all wrong, it was a Heinkel fighter!!!!

    June 29, 2011 at 10:36 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1053336
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    Eric

    very glad to see that the wood in the fuselage mostly looks OK. And you’ve got practice at finding old poor quality repairs!

    DaveW

    p.s. Don’t force it, use a bigger hammer!

    May 5, 2011 at 8:17 am in reply to: Chris Wills VGC #1058155
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    I never found anyone who could provide so much information on vintage gliders and old-time gliding in general. He’ll be greatly missed.

    May 4, 2011 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Another glider saved (I'm going to run out of space soon!) #1059227
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    You should see the video of him at the VGC International Evening at Achmer in 2002! I think it was that rocket fuel the Finns were handing out along with the smoked Bambi:D:D:D

    May 4, 2011 at 9:43 am in reply to: Another glider saved (I'm going to run out of space soon!) #1059500
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    I’m not retired! Just moved my desk to Scotland that’s all. Looking for a workshop long enough for gliders though.

    PS I’ll still take the Grasshopper rides though!:D:D

    Dave

    PPS Take care, I’ve got photos of a very young Fournier Boy ripping fabric off BNK. One false move and they’ll be on this forum

    May 3, 2011 at 8:17 am in reply to: 1950's/60's Archive Part 21:Old Warden 1964/1965 #1060827
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    I used to go to dances at Shuttleworth Agricultural College in the late 60’s. I believe that the old lady was still living somewhere in the big house so they weren’t allowed dances there – so being good farmers the Shutts guys emptied the aircraft out of one of the hangars, stuck in a load of straw bales for seats and a space heater and had the dances there!

    Eh dear, times have changed, what would elfin safety say?

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