Do You Own Any Bits of Aircraft?
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Nice one Splash.
Incidentally when I was in my early 20's I did allot of temping and one job (for a well known supermarket chain) was at part of the Sherburn airfield site no longer in use for flying. I got to look around one of the old hangers where the Swordfish were built. Interesting stuff and a nice bit of history, only after I had had a couple of looks around the hanger someone told me the building was condemed as the roof cladding was falling in.
all the best.
Greg
Incidentally when I was in my early 20's I did allot of temping and one job (for a well known supermarket chain) was at part of the Sherburn airfield site no longer in use for flying. I got to look around one of the old hangers where the Swordfish were built. Interesting stuff and a nice bit of history, only after I had had a couple of looks around the hanger someone told me the building was condemed as the roof cladding was falling in.
all the best.
Greg
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I have part of the German airship SZ11 shot down over Cuffley by Leefe- Robinson in 1916- it is currently sitting next to my Airfix Be2c as a reminder to start building the latter.
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Re: Do You Own Any Bits of Aircraft?
It's unlikely to fly again but it doesn't look irreparable Greg.Gregers wrote:I know what you mean .jssel wrote:Now that is really nice Paul. Antique aircraft owners will tell you it all starts with the first part you obtain.
I do have a few bits and bobs. Oldest piece is a small model boat made from pieces of a crashed Spitfire, the hull is perspex and the sails are copper
In the loft (somewhere) is a fuse box cover from a B25, It was from the one called 'Gorgeous George Ann' in the film Hanover street.
I also have a turbine guide vane from one of the two Mig 29's that collided at RAF Fairford.
In the loft I have some small solid hydraulic pipe and a section of fuselage skin from an AV8A
Also a pitot tube from a Harrier GR3
And last but not least....this.
It's the fuselage of a 1947 Cessna 140. It'll never fly again and will be a mobile exhibit when done. As you can see there is extensive front end damage from a crash some 18 years ago. Since these photos were taken because of a misunderstanding the tail has been cut off just behind the cockpit but it is still there and can be re-attached though it'll be a difficult repair.
doubt I'll get it done for the 'large scale aircraft' G/B though
I'm also in the process of trying to acquire another 1/1 scale project, but more on that if and when it happens.
All the best.
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It'll certainly never fly again now. due to a misunderstanding the rear fuselage has been cut off. Having had it's back broken it's repairable as a static but could never fly again without major surgery. The pain will be heating the panels (0.98 T6 ally) enough so they will straighten without melting them. All good fun of course. Oh. the other project that I have aquired is the cockpit section of an ALON Ercoupe.
All the best.
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I only have 2 as of 18th August and they are:
When I turned 21 my Late Nan bought me the Navigator's seat from a Nimrod MR.2.
(One on the right in the pic).
Fast forward 5 years because of a life threatening incident at work my Mrs bought me the nose cone cover from a Harrier GR.7.
Does anyone have a pic of one of these on a harrier?
Ok so lets see what everyone else has!
When I turned 21 my Late Nan bought me the Navigator's seat from a Nimrod MR.2.
(One on the right in the pic).
Fast forward 5 years because of a life threatening incident at work my Mrs bought me the nose cone cover from a Harrier GR.7.
Does anyone have a pic of one of these on a harrier?
Ok so lets see what everyone else has!
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Two new e-Bay purchases:
Sperry Gyrosyn CL2 gyro unit - as used on Canberras, Shacks and other large aircraft. Wish I could find out what exact type it came out of! Was purchased from Phoenix, so who knows?
And this Badin Anemometre 35-11 Type 102-1:
Post-war French air speed indicator, and also purchased from a chap in Phoenix but other than that, I cannot tell you anything! Ideas?
Sperry Gyrosyn CL2 gyro unit - as used on Canberras, Shacks and other large aircraft. Wish I could find out what exact type it came out of! Was purchased from Phoenix, so who knows?
And this Badin Anemometre 35-11 Type 102-1:
Post-war French air speed indicator, and also purchased from a chap in Phoenix but other than that, I cannot tell you anything! Ideas?
Paul
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Re: Do You Own Any Bits of Aircraft?
Looking at the speed range may give a clue. The VNE makes it too slow for the likes of the Magister. even the bigger stuff like the Noratlas and Atlantique. Maybe something like a French built hgh performance piston training/liaison type?
Nice finds though Paul.
All the best.
Greg
Nice finds though Paul.
All the best.
Greg
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That's what I was thinking, too.
I did hear back from the seller - he was given these in a box of stuff from the CAF in Mesa, AZ, some years ago. They told him they were from the CASA 2-111 that they flew before it crashed a good few years ago, and were surplus to requirements. Quite how true that is is open to question - though plausible, it seems unlikely. There were a handful of Canberras stored at Falcon Field for some years, so perhaps the Sperry unit came from one of them.
I did hear back from the seller - he was given these in a box of stuff from the CAF in Mesa, AZ, some years ago. They told him they were from the CASA 2-111 that they flew before it crashed a good few years ago, and were surplus to requirements. Quite how true that is is open to question - though plausible, it seems unlikely. There were a handful of Canberras stored at Falcon Field for some years, so perhaps the Sperry unit came from one of them.
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IF I can find it I have a book on the Battle of Britain film. I will have a look for any casa 2-111 cockpit shots to see if any of the ASIs match this one.
All the best
Greg
All the best
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No photos (yet? ), but I have accumulated over the years, mostly through contacts at work:
And, of course, in line with the dictum that the entry in a dictionary for the word "clutter" should have a footnote: "see Engineering Laboratory" , the labs at the university where I work used to have lots of bits and bobs of defunct light aircraft. We reckoned that we could build a full airframe (a composite Cessna 152/172) if we had an engine and prop to power it . Unfortunately, that was a little while (and a couple of lab rebuilds) ago, so I don't know if we've still got them; they certainly aren't where they were...
- a scrapped titanium RCS duct support bracket from the Harrier II production line
- an unused inside window surround from Concorde
- and a scrapped centrifugal compressor impeller from a Rolls-Royce engine of unknown type
And, of course, in line with the dictum that the entry in a dictionary for the word "clutter" should have a footnote: "see Engineering Laboratory" , the labs at the university where I work used to have lots of bits and bobs of defunct light aircraft. We reckoned that we could build a full airframe (a composite Cessna 152/172) if we had an engine and prop to power it . Unfortunately, that was a little while (and a couple of lab rebuilds) ago, so I don't know if we've still got them; they certainly aren't where they were...
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