Halifax Bomber Project, Canada any further info?

By: Prop Strike - 13th December 2020 at 13:19 Permalink

Is that the video you meant to post, ie running a Bristol Hercules engine ?

This video is about the Canadian restoration project (also shows running engine) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVY0bFnArI&ab_channel=CBCNews%3ATheNat…

By: trumper - 13th December 2020 at 16:12 Permalink

👋 That is brilliant 

By: karl Kj - 13th December 2020 at 21:35 Permalink

HI Trolley Aux and the guys here, just so you can keep up on our progress on the Halifax we are putting together, you can follow our Hastings-to-Halifax total rebuild of a center-section in Ottawa. We took apart the Hasting center section totally, rebuilt  each piece back to Halifax standard with NEW extruded main spars and rear spars. See all the great work by Knox Tech  just go to Facebook and look for the page called "REBUILDSHOP". Plus, I am working on the 3rd Bristol Hercules engine, should be ok to run next year, with the 4th Hercules to be cobbled together later at our HQ, the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, Alberta. All our Halifax will be assembled there in the years to come, goal to run and taxi just like our Lanc FM159. Cheers, KK

By: Prop Strike - 13th December 2020 at 22:42 Permalink

Hi Karl, great to hear from you. Really amazing work,  you Canadians put our RAF  museum Halifax to shame !

There is a team in the UK hoping to create a Wellington from a derelict Viking, so I guess you are showing the way. 

By: Zac Yates - 14th December 2020 at 00:10 Permalink

Karl was on a recent episode of the Wings Over New Zealand Show* which was a fascinating insight into Canadian links to the type as well as the project itself: http://cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2020/09/wonz-229-karl-kjarsgaa…

*not a paid advertisement for the podcast, I just saw Karl post and realised it was the same project

By: karl Kj - 15th December 2020 at 06:08 Permalink

Thanks TA, well just to bring all the good folks up to date here, I have been putting all the project UPDATES, including the center-section dissection and rebuild of a Hastings center-section from Malta (maybe WJ328 ?) back to Halifax design standard in Ottawa, Ontario --  plus all the trials and tribulations of the Bristol Hercules 215 and 734 engines (we have 7 Hercules to work with) at our HQ in Nanton, Alberta near Calgary, at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. Best if I just show you the Halifax Sweden Project page where I am listing everything going on, so read the "UPDATES" with photos and videos, I have put up over 100 so far, Cheers, KK - Halifax 57 Rescue -- cannot do a link so do a Google search: "Fundrazr 417498"

By: karl Kj - 18th January 2021 at 15:55 Permalink

Hi Trolley Aux and all the folks here, just put up a new Halifax Project UPDATE on our site about the removing and replacing the rusty bits on a rebuilt Hercules 215 plus other good news. You can see the latest by doing a Google search of "Fundrazr 417498", ---  to get to the latest topics on our Halifax Project you have to find and click on "UPDATES", the latest update is JAN. 17, 2021, Cheers, KK