If *you* think that you've got a though restoration project...

Thus spake Timo Geusch unto the assembled multitudes:

There was an Me109 flying at a display at Lydd some years back. ISTR the
sound was something of a nasty rasping snarl, and didn't make your spine
shiver like a Merlin does. But then maybe I was a little bit biased.

 

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:54:39 +0100,

Eh? I'm flattered but I know very little about aeroplanes.

Except Nimrods.
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\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^' RBR-Visited:83 Pts:1800 Miles:6890

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

"Miss Shilling's Orifices" were the solution, IIRC.
--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Timo had an ancestor working at R-R? Cool.[/QUOTE]

Here's one Timo prepared earlier...

http://www.salad.dodger.dsl.pipex.com/photos/photo_125.html

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| ___ Salad Dodger
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_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..70876../..16437.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^' RBR-Visited:83 Pts:1800 Miles:6890

 

More like "When the Government decided to can TSR2.

 

For a given stiffness, wood, aluminium alloy and steel are all about
the same weight: there are good reasons for using wood.

 

I was rather impressed with the idea of inverted-V12 diesels, meself. such
as the Junkers Jumo IIRC.

Me book of planes lists a DB605, which is also inverted-V12.

 

Eh? What went wrong? Our economy seems quite strong to me.

 

No, sir is on a wind up. But these threads always go the same way -
"O lament for our lost aircraft industry". To which I answer - why
does it matter? We don't make airplanes, mobile phones or televisions
in this country. We do make pharmaceuticals, financial services,
music and racing cars. Why are some of this list better than others in
your eyes?

 

So what?

I'm interested in motorcycles, but I really don't give a monkey's
where they are made. Why does your interest in aviation concern
itself with where the planes are built?

 

Thus spake Andy Wegg unto the assembled multitudes:

A certain Mr Bloor might disagree

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

Hmm.. I wonder what radar reflectivity they had?

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Andy Wegg"

I read an accident report recently on the wrong setting up of a Merlin
carb; apparently it's easy to overlook the setup of the float chamber
with regard to the roof of it once it's re-assembled, the internal
clearances being critical to sustained fuel delivery while maneouvering.
Needless to say, it's all in the proper manual for it, but whoever
rebuilt this carb didn't know or didn't care.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Salad Dodger

A bit of Brasso and it'll be flying again, Sir.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Bit of filler, make good, it'll be alright...

 

Plywood laminated with expoxy glue was used on the gun- and torpedo
boats as well (Vosper et al.). Made for exceptional seaworthy hulls,
especially at high speeds, due to "crossply" layout of the wood fibres
but gave miserable protection against gunfire...

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Tom :{)
BOTAFOT#105 COFF#02/ OSOS#15 KwaSoH#2
SR500(.de), SRX-4(.jp)
Make it idiot-proof and someone invents a better idiot...

Hiroshima pics: http://makeashorterlink.com/?C12E12B97

 

I suppose Vosper worked on the Mosquito principle: "If you can't get
near it, you can't shoot at it".

 

And I seem to remember a mate from Coventry telling me they used Merlins
(Marine version, approx. 2200bhp each) in some of the boat types, too
.... three of them in the Whalebacks ... others were equipped with
Isotta Fraschinis of similar power output.
During the "conflict" he had served on one of these MTBs and after the
war he bought one rather cheapish and, together with his brother, ran a
small "import/export enterprise" - at least until the petrol guzzling
Merlins had to be replaced with International Harvester Diesels.
These left more revenue per night but considerably less certainty to
arrive whatever place before the minions of the Admiralty did... they
sold the boat to an American who wanted a stylish "runabout" in the
early 50s...

--
Tom :{)
BOTAFOT#105 COFF#02/ OSOS#15 KwaSoH#2
SR500(.de), SRX-4(.jp)
Make it idiot-proof and someone invents a better idiot...

Hiroshima pics: http://makeashorterlink.com/?C12E12B97

 

<Llewellyn-Bowen mode>

I always thought that both the Vosper MTBs and the E-boats were
incredibly stylish craft, actually.

I mean, if you're going to have a naval battle you might as well do it
in something that looks good.

Hood vs. Bismarck - two of the best-looking warships ever built. Shame
they had to sink them both.

</L-Bm>

 

later ones had twin diesels, (probably the Fairmile boats) but didn't have
quite the same verve as the triple-merlin ones, by all accounts. still
pretty fast though.

I gather the merlin-powered ones were good for 40+ kts.