Aircraft General Discussion

Not that new, when Stephen Wessel showed me his engine at MEX (ENV of 1910 - under construction) he pointed out exactly the same way of keeping the bearings in place

Neil

Then I guess that Napier could have used such an arrangement on the early, pre1906, cars.

JA

I was just reading the first post in this thread where the OP sat in a sunderland. It triggered a memory from way back when i was 4 or 5 yrs old and I'm sure my Dad said that the round bits I was playing with to make a 'bicycle' were sunderland porthole cut-outs he'd salvaged from the base. It would have been around the time he got posted to singapore ??? 1953??

Edited By pgk pgk on 20/11/2016 11:51:25

Being aircraft pedantic (pedantry is VERY fashionable on the forum!!), I believe that sunderland may be a place somewhere North of the Watford Gap but the Sunderland flying boat (Sunderboat to the initiated) requires a capital 'S'. Crews needed additional skills in the culinary arts as well as seamanship!! The 'opposition' treated it with some respect, giving it the nickname 'Flying Porcupine' because of its armament. I had Service friends who had crewed them and loved it but managed to avoid them for the short period they were in service when I joined.

rgds

Bill

Actually if we re going to be pedantic, wouldn't a place name also normally receive a capital letter too?

There was at one time a boat in Auckland made out of a Sunderland wing float.

John

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Edit: on second thoughts ... Maybe deduct one star for tautology.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 20/11/2016 22:12:15

To be pedantic all proper nouns, that is names, should start with a capital letter. Sunderland, the place the aeroplane or anything else should do so. I believe that this should apply to the names of element and perhaps metals such as brass.

JA

Baited and cast and ... strike!!

rgds

Bill

in 1964 when I joined the Air Force I wanted to be a Flight Engineer, inspired by the Mk 5 Sunderlands of the RNZAF, these were just about to be phased out and replace with Orion maritime reconnaiance aircraft. Still got the Orions, and will have them for the next ten or a dozen years.

Ian S C

I live in the Medway towns which includes Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham, During the war Sunderlands were made in Rochester by Shorts and the Hard is still there. The bits were fabricated in tunnels in the chalk cliff on the East side and the planes launched from the hard standing. After the war a single Shorts Sunderland was moored in the Medway above Rochester bridge for some years. I did onetime see some maintenance on it when engines were run. When I joined the army at 14 and came back a few years later it was gone.

Clive

PS. of course it was also made in Belfast where Shorts were also established

Edited By Clive Hartland on 21/11/2016 11:22:15

PS. of course it was also made in Belfast where Shorts were also established

And also on Lake Windemere

**LINK**

Nigel B

I've only got a vague understanding of what I'm looking at here but when browsing in the local charity shops this afternoon I spotted a group of aircraft manuals. Leafing through them, there are line drawings of the innards of instruments etc. Clearly for training purposes. One was titled something like "the use of water rescue equipment", for those unlucky enough to have ditched in the soup.

If anyone is sufficiently interested I could retrieve them. Given that this is a charity shop, they wouldn't be expensive.

Anyone recognise them?

There used to be a Sunderland 'gate guardian' in Pembroke Dock when I was a lad.

Neil

Muzzer - you could try flagging that up on the Spotters forum on PPrune (Professional Pilots' Rumour Network) www.pprune.org. Might well be some interest!

rgds

Bill

Catching-up on yesterday's T.V. ...

I've just watched 'Click' [which should be available on the BBC iPlayer]

Very interesting snippet about BAE Systems' "autonomous" test aircraft

Jetstream: Reg. G-BWWW

MichaelG.

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Edit: https://planefinder.net/data/aircraft/G-BWWW may be of interet

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 11/12/2016 15:21:36

I remember passing this every day on my way to school, long since gone but not forgotten.

That Land Rover seems to have a rather unusual construction, assuming that's what it is. Not like any I've seen before. Possibly a hand made one-off body?

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That, Sir, would be a Shooting Brake

**LINK**

https://goo.gl/images/h0pO57

MichaelG.

Dads Bradford had a similar body.

Ian S C

Bob, did you see the Saunders Roe Princess fly, I did. It flew over my army camp near farnborough, also saw the Brabazon. plus many experimental type planes. This was in the early fifties from 1952 on.

Clive