By: BluebirdBill
- 27th January 2014 at 17:44Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I'll have to warn Bill not to even go near the 'what colour is interior green?' topic!
That's an easy one - most of the interior green is still in there once we get to the pointy end. Maybe we should ask Humbrol for thousands of those weeny tins to paint the outside. Now who could ever argue with Humbrol?
The sea-sludge green and extra sea-sludge green both have RAL codes it's the duck-egg-green / blue / sky colour that seems a little mysterious but we do have a couple of good surviving examples so when we get it matched and use that and some smarty-pants tells us it's wrong we can reply with absolute conviction that it's not us that's wrong.
I was mainly concerned that ours might be one of the blue or white or almost entirely sky-coloured examples from the book but if it's just the camouflage type scheme we're laughing.
By: BluebirdBill
- 28th January 2014 at 00:47Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Absolutely magnificent work on the Barra Bill, not to mention the utterly amazing job you've done with K7 - just takes restoration to a new level.
If you should be at a loose end any time, there's a Handley Page Halifax in London.... :dev2:
Thank you - I accept your compliment on behalf of all the waifs and strays who give up their evenings and weekends to work on our projects. Halifax, you say? I reckon we can weld Halifaxes.
On a slightly more serious note, I'd be very interested to know what sort of problems are considered real show-stoppers with the materials on aircraft restorations because we're sure to find them too and we can either learn the fixes from those who have gone before without having to reinvent the wheel or maybe crack a problem or two and be able to pass on what we've learned.
By: RAFrattray
- 3rd February 2014 at 16:36Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
hi everyone on this forum,
I'm new here as I'm trying to do a good bit of research on who and what served on and around RNAS Rattray,
seeing as I only live about half a kilometre away from the place.
regarding the dumped barracudas in the loch, I don't suppose anyone has any more information on what else happened there?
I've heard a lot more went on there but don't have any clue,
if any of you have any info regarding this I would be very grateful,
By: Lynx815
- 4th February 2014 at 19:01Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
With regard to the video, the specific Meteor T.7 seen in the video, WS103, was never used by Martin Baker for ejection seat trials, its a standard T.7 having seen FAA squadron service. Don't know why the surprise with the Skyraider as these saw extensive service with the FAA before the Gannet AEW3 and there's also another one sat outside Cobham Hall for all to see. Also John Fairey mentioned during the Flycatcher piece was the son of 'the man', not the man himself, the man being Sir Charles Richard Fairey. Sorry to be a pedant!
Love the restoration work as I'm an aircraft sheet metal worker at heart trained by the Royal Navy with 13 years MARTSU/MASU experience.
By: Mothminor
- 9th February 2014 at 15:24Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
hi everyone on this forum,
I'm new here as I'm trying to do a good bit of research on who and what served on and around RNAS Rattray,
seeing as I only live about half a kilometre away from the place.
regarding the dumped barracudas in the loch, I don't suppose anyone has any more information on what else happened there?
I've heard a lot more went on there but don't have any clue,
if any of you have any info regarding this I would be very grateful,
also good luck on the restoration project,
james.
Hello James,
Can I suggest that you may be better off opening a new thread? "Info on RNAS Rattray/ Crimond/ HMS Merganser" for example. This is a very well-read thread but, as it concerns a present day restoration, I think you will possibly find your post getting a bit lost in the middle.
By: BluebirdBill
- 9th February 2014 at 21:22Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
On a different matter, whats happened to the Bluebird diary?,the last one was August last year. Always an informative and amusing read.
Yes - sorry about that. All my writing time has been taken up with other matters these past few months but thankfully that's all sorted now and I'm being pestered to death to resume the BBP diary. The little Barra' diaries take no time at all but the BBP one can be an epic but I'm on it. Another difficulty with the BBP diary is we've been stuck on the sponsons for the past year and a bit so there's nothing left to write about. Mike keeps the pic of the day pretty current and that more or less shows everything we're doing in real time but we're onto fitting their skins and planing surfaces now so there's more to report. We're putting the outer skins on our Barra' tailplane too now too so lots of interesting things to show you there.
As for Crimond, I don't know what went on up there but I do know there's a hell of a lot of Barra' lying about!
By: VARSITY
- 25th February 2014 at 09:26Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Post 124, we had a Barracuda centre section on East Midlands airport at the LLAM in 1980 when the museum closed it went to Nev it later went to Colin Baker at Derby who later gave it to the FAAM it was the centre section with window and inner wing about 7foot wide and10 feet long. I have some pictures somewhere of it.
By: BluebirdBill
- 25th February 2014 at 11:40Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Post 124, we had a Barracuda centre section on East Midlands airport at the LLAM in 1980 when the museum closed it went to Nev it later went to Colin Baker at Derby who later gave it to the FAAM it was the centre section with window and inner wing about 7foot wide and10 feet long. I have some pictures somewhere of it.
That'd be interesting - so far as I know there's the one that came out of the bog and a badly burned (without any windows) one and that's the lot. If there's a third that would be quite a turn up! If you can dig up any pic's they'd be appreciated.
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By: Bluebird Mike - 27th January 2014 at 15:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I'll have to warn Bill not to even go near the 'what colour is interior green?' topic!
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By: BluebirdBill - 27th January 2014 at 17:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
That's an easy one - most of the interior green is still in there once we get to the pointy end. Maybe we should ask Humbrol for thousands of those weeny tins to paint the outside. Now who could ever argue with Humbrol?
The sea-sludge green and extra sea-sludge green both have RAL codes it's the duck-egg-green / blue / sky colour that seems a little mysterious but we do have a couple of good surviving examples so when we get it matched and use that and some smarty-pants tells us it's wrong we can reply with absolute conviction that it's not us that's wrong.
I was mainly concerned that ours might be one of the blue or white or almost entirely sky-coloured examples from the book but if it's just the camouflage type scheme we're laughing.
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By: Zidante - 27th January 2014 at 22:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Absolutely magnificent work on the Barra Bill, not to mention the utterly amazing job you've done with K7 - just takes restoration to a new level.
If you should be at a loose end any time, there's a Handley Page Halifax in London.... :dev2:
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By: BluebirdBill - 28th January 2014 at 00:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thank you - I accept your compliment on behalf of all the waifs and strays who give up their evenings and weekends to work on our projects. Halifax, you say? I reckon we can weld Halifaxes.
On a slightly more serious note, I'd be very interested to know what sort of problems are considered real show-stoppers with the materials on aircraft restorations because we're sure to find them too and we can either learn the fixes from those who have gone before without having to reinvent the wheel or maybe crack a problem or two and be able to pass on what we've learned.
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By: RAFrattray - 3rd February 2014 at 16:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
hi everyone on this forum,
I'm new here as I'm trying to do a good bit of research on who and what served on and around RNAS Rattray,
seeing as I only live about half a kilometre away from the place.
regarding the dumped barracudas in the loch, I don't suppose anyone has any more information on what else happened there?
I've heard a lot more went on there but don't have any clue,
if any of you have any info regarding this I would be very grateful,
also good luck on the restoration project,
james.
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By: Bluebird Mike - 4th February 2014 at 14:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Excellent coverage of The Barracuda Project from 08:20 here-
:eagerness:
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By: Lynx815 - 4th February 2014 at 19:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
With regard to the video, the specific Meteor T.7 seen in the video, WS103, was never used by Martin Baker for ejection seat trials, its a standard T.7 having seen FAA squadron service. Don't know why the surprise with the Skyraider as these saw extensive service with the FAA before the Gannet AEW3 and there's also another one sat outside Cobham Hall for all to see. Also John Fairey mentioned during the Flycatcher piece was the son of 'the man', not the man himself, the man being Sir Charles Richard Fairey. Sorry to be a pedant!
Love the restoration work as I'm an aircraft sheet metal worker at heart trained by the Royal Navy with 13 years MARTSU/MASU experience.
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By: Bluebird Mike - 9th February 2014 at 14:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
With kind permission of 'The Mighty Jingles', I've re-packaged the Barracuda segment of his recent video on our own channel-
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By: Mothminor - 9th February 2014 at 15:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hello James,
Can I suggest that you may be better off opening a new thread? "Info on RNAS Rattray/ Crimond/ HMS Merganser" for example. This is a very well-read thread but, as it concerns a present day restoration, I think you will possibly find your post getting a bit lost in the middle.
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By: PanzerJohn - 9th February 2014 at 19:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
On a different matter, whats happened to the Bluebird diary?,the last one was August last year. Always an informative and amusing read.
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By: Anon - 9th February 2014 at 19:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
This might be worth a look:
http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/alta.html
Seems to be a lot of wreckage left at the site.
Anon.
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By: BluebirdBill - 9th February 2014 at 21:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yes - sorry about that. All my writing time has been taken up with other matters these past few months but thankfully that's all sorted now and I'm being pestered to death to resume the BBP diary. The little Barra' diaries take no time at all but the BBP one can be an epic but I'm on it. Another difficulty with the BBP diary is we've been stuck on the sponsons for the past year and a bit so there's nothing left to write about. Mike keeps the pic of the day pretty current and that more or less shows everything we're doing in real time but we're onto fitting their skins and planing surfaces now so there's more to report. We're putting the outer skins on our Barra' tailplane too now too so lots of interesting things to show you there.
As for Crimond, I don't know what went on up there but I do know there's a hell of a lot of Barra' lying about!
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By: Bluebird Mike - 24th February 2014 at 13:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Latest Barra diary is up-
February 2014
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By: TempestV - 24th February 2014 at 13:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Well done to all involved in this work. Such a worthy project.
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By: Bluebird Mike - 25th February 2014 at 07:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Cheers David, much appreciated. :eagerness:
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By: VARSITY - 25th February 2014 at 09:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Post 124, we had a Barracuda centre section on East Midlands airport at the LLAM in 1980 when the museum closed it went to Nev it later went to Colin Baker at Derby who later gave it to the FAAM it was the centre section with window and inner wing about 7foot wide and10 feet long. I have some pictures somewhere of it.
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By: Blue_2 - 25th February 2014 at 10:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I love reading the blog, one of the best written restoration blogs on the 'net!
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By: BluebirdBill - 25th February 2014 at 11:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
That'd be interesting - so far as I know there's the one that came out of the bog and a badly burned (without any windows) one and that's the lot. If there's a third that would be quite a turn up! If you can dig up any pic's they'd be appreciated.
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By: BluebirdBill - 25th February 2014 at 11:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thank you very kindly, sir.
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By: Fouga23 - 25th February 2014 at 18:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Nice update :) One thing though, would it be possible to put the website URL in the newsletter? Makes it easier to click right to the site/ update :)