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By: 3rd April 2011 at 18:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Working on Longbow '007'
By: 3rd April 2011 at 18:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-very nice David....you still in G or now Watti?
By: 3rd April 2011 at 18:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-In exceeding sunny 'G' at the moment!
By: 3rd April 2011 at 18:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-copying my Grandfathers logbooks onto the laptop......well making note of each individual aircraft listed in them anyway
By: 3rd April 2011 at 18:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-20 off bellows fabric hot glueing and ironing on the turning motor banks on D4-030.
Ross
By: 3rd April 2011 at 18:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Managed to squeeze a bit of stick top revival into Mothers Day!
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Very nice James. Sea Vixen?
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I'm vegging in front of the telly. Peter Sellars marathon on BBC America so thats my day shot..
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Very nice James. Sea Vixen?
That's the one Rob, however as I finished painting it I got a phone call with an offer of some free aircraft grade ally primer, so may strip it and start again!
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-working on the elevator of my Kirby Kite, painting metal fittings on my Luton Minor and fabric covering the rudder of dads Grunau Baby.
Dave
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Getting ready to travel to the Netherlands / Belgium in search of a 619 Squadron Lancaster and the missing pilot.
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Painting some pieces of Me 109.
It was the other half of the belly pan from Ehrlers G2 Yellow 12 - I picked it up at Shoreham. The other half sold on ebay a couple of weeks ago (see ebay thread).
It was pretty mangled as it crash landed in Russia. The brown stuff on the bottom was oil - probably from when the engine was hit. The rest of the paint was an Arctic white
I was also stripping some pieces of Halifax that I bartered for at Shoreham.
I was surprised that the two main pieces are paper thin aluminium. Sandwiched in between are wooden spars and some thin slivers of wood surrounding what looks like a mineral foam. This internal sandwich is glued to the aluminium with a latex glue.
Oh yes and I bought a CDIA.
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-machining parts for Napier Lion Claudel Hobson carburettors.
Andy
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Trying to sort out the garage and work out what the hell I've got!
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-PS - Howard, your trip sounds fascinating!
Yes, I'm travelling out with the nephew of the missing pilot - I was last there in September 2006.
Have you cleared your PM box yet??
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Trying to sort out the garage and work out what the hell I've got!
Nah don't go doing that Bruce, it'll spoil the fun!
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Dont worry Tim - not the shed, the garage!
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Fair point! I'm off to crawl back into the B(I)8/B6(Mod) Equipment Hatch from which I momentarily emerged...
to which end..this is what I have been working on...
A somewhat unglamorous English Electric elevator balance tab actuator lever..I'll leave you all to guess what I am due to fit it back on to...
By: 3rd April 2011 at 19:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Today I visited the Aces High Gallery at Wendover where Luftwaffe Ace Walter Schuck signed his biography, 'the book' at the appropriate entry and the data plate for Spitfire BP926/G-PRIV.
BP926 was his 113th kill of a total 206, all mostly on the Russian front, and his only Spitfire.
..and doesn't he look good for a man in his 91st year.
Mark
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By: Rocketeer - 3rd April 2011 at 18:06
Preparing the cam cover for my Battle of Britain Merlin, the BFP for the Whirly panel and completing the annuals on my summer fleet!!!!:)
What you been doing?!