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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 1, 2015 22:00:33 GMT 12
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Post by rayo on Mar 2, 2015 6:45:34 GMT 12
Fabulous. I love the "Pig in Muck Selfie" Dave  . Did you take a cockpit photo while you you were up there Salivating?? |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 2, 2015 6:50:55 GMT 12
Yep, I'll post some more later.
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Post by Mustang51 on Mar 2, 2015 8:19:53 GMT 12
You lucky bast*rd...............
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Post by baz62 on Mar 2, 2015 9:27:08 GMT 12
Nice to see her outside. That one of you in the cockpit though, if you didnt know how high off the ground the cockpit was it almost looks like you are doing a low level beatup! This is still going to the RAF Museum via Wigram?
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Post by camtech on Mar 2, 2015 11:54:25 GMT 12
Magnificent - what a great job they're doing
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 2, 2015 14:56:29 GMT 12
   More interior shots on my Facebook page here and I seriously got the feeling that i wanted to start the engine and go for a fly. I have never felt that when i have sat in the cockpit of a Spitfire, Mustang, Corsair, P-40 or Avenger, etc. It was strange, it fitted like a glove and felt a lot like home. Maybe i am drawn to these aircraft because of a past life perhaps? |
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Post by rayo on Mar 2, 2015 16:19:08 GMT 12
Thanks for the great photo's Dave. This is still going to the RAF Museum via Wigram? If it is it will be still here for a fair while yet. All good things take time and I am not in a hurry to see it leave but when I compare progress (visually at least) since the Forum meet there in October 2012 the only advance is around the cockpit area, Gun mounts and ammunition chutes. Maybe the wings have been getting all the recent attention? |
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Post by TS on Mar 2, 2015 16:44:05 GMT 12
Excellent Dave. Hope to see her in the flesh so to speak in the not to distant future.  Plus the rest of Dons collection. Do you have pictures of the rest by any chance?? |
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Post by baz62 on Mar 2, 2015 16:55:49 GMT 12
Amazing how not much changed from the 1930s to the 1950s. On my Auster's instrument panel I have the same Turn and slip and oil pressure gauges and I'm fairly sure Anthony Galbraith's T7 has the same Airspeed Indicator. Probably with all the massive production during the war there was no need to design a new instrument. Don't know if those flying "jandals" would be acceptable on the Squadron old boy! |
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 2, 2015 20:50:04 GMT 12
MAGNIFICENT VINCENT!!
Thank you Steve, Don, Mike and co. and thanks for the update Dave
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Post by camtech on Mar 3, 2015 11:22:19 GMT 12
Amazing how not much changed from the 1930s to the 1950s. On my Auster's instrument panel I have the same Turn and slip and oil pressure gauges and I'm fairly sure Anthony Galbraith's T7 has the same Airspeed Indicator. Probably with all the massive production during the war there was no need to design a new instrument. Don't know if those flying "jandals" would be acceptable on the Squadron old boy! Yes, I can remember working on some of those instruments way back when I first started in the Instrument Bay at Whenuapai. No remote sensors in those days - the oil temp. gauge had a copper tube with a sensing bulb on the end, so had to be carefully fitted and removed to avoid damage. We even used to repair this type if the tube was damaged - repair and refill the tube. |
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Post by curtiss on Mar 3, 2015 14:11:39 GMT 12
Aircraft is certainly impressive . The RPM indicator seems to have a very high range ( 5000 ) I would have expected something like a 2600 RPM gauge? Maybe it is just something of the right period to fill the space?
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Post by Ian Warren on Mar 4, 2015 15:42:18 GMT 12
I really studied the Wigrams Vilderbeest, the structure and airframe and whats required in the machining side, see that just above your head Dave, that is impressive, I recommend people who have not got close to one to stop in Wigrams Airforce Museum, to even look at the rudder build and whats involved, almost looks to delicate to jump and fly.
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Post by oj on Mar 5, 2015 21:49:25 GMT 12
I like that huge wooden prop. Thirteen foot six inches in diameter as I recall (same as Wildebeest). Would that be right historians?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 6, 2015 16:41:09 GMT 12
The Vincent is virtually identical to a Vildebeest III, and yes the prop is 13 foot six inches, the largest wooden prop used in the RNZAF, and the largest prop on a single two-blade engined aircraft in the RNZAF, and probably NZ, ever. The Baffin's prop was a similar 13 foot diameter.
I didn't really photograph much else there although I had a good look over the Baffin project. It was hard to take my eyes off the gorgeous Vincent.
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Post by rodger on Mar 20, 2015 5:01:39 GMT 12
I'm new here, but caught part of the forum re the Vickers Wildbeeste photos with torpedoes in 1942 Singapore. Just FYI my dad was a air gunner- Photograher with 100 Squadron. He told me they practiced for months torpedo bombing, and at the last minute before they sett off to attack the Jap invasion ships and barges off Endau Malaya, the had their torpedo equipment removed and bomb racks fitted. Needless to say they had never trained or practiced using bombs.
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Post by craig on Mar 20, 2015 7:00:12 GMT 12
Hey Dave
Whats the history behind this aircraft? Where did it come from and what was the condition when restoration began
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Post by Martin Wienert on Mar 20, 2015 19:57:42 GMT 12
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