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Post by aircraftclocks on Apr 16, 2024 20:57:50 GMT 12
Its been a few months now since I visited Ferrymead but Agile, its time to talk W connectors.
Denys I think I have located a copy of the "AB" IPB you have been looking for. The library who has it do not "export". Knowing that people are heading to the US soon for a big airshow, someone may have time to "import" it.
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Post by Antonio on Apr 16, 2024 22:37:11 GMT 12
Denys, Are there any photographs detailing the repairs to HR339's tail feathers for the flak damage received during Operation Clarion?
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 17, 2024 17:50:57 GMT 12
Well done team!
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Post by agile on Apr 20, 2024 6:08:03 GMT 12
Denys, Are there any photographs detailing the repairs to HR339's tail feathers for the flak damage received during Operation Clarion? Hi Antonio. We've never seen any pics at all of HR339 from the time. HR339`s tailplane didn't survive into preservation, and we didn't find any repairs on the fin. There might be repairs under the rudder fabric but we don't plan to strip this off.
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Post by Antonio on Apr 20, 2024 8:38:11 GMT 12
Denys, Are there any photographs detailing the repairs to HR339's tail feathers for the flak damage received during Operation Clarion? Hi Antonio. We've never seen any pics at all of HR339 from the time. HR339`s tailplane didn't survive into preservation, and we didn't find any repairs on the fin. There might be repairs under the rudder fabric but we don't plan to strip this off. Thanks for that. Appreciated
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Post by denysjones on Apr 21, 2024 12:32:43 GMT 12
First task yesterday was to install the left rear gear door segment that was the week's homework. As that went on easily Rob and I then offered up the right side forward piece. Those pieces are different installation wise from the rear which makes things a tad trickier. The rears have straightforward arm brackets at either end but the forward ones only have a single such arm at their forward end and that item isn't rigidly attached to the door structure. It mounts onto the door with a bearing end which gives it multi-directional movement. The two pieces of door then join with two connections one, the lower, being an elaborate item which can adjust the join for fitting of the whole assembly. All of this then hooks up onto the mechanism that drives the open and closing of the doors with the gear motion. This is how things should look if we can just get our hands on a set of it all, this is BXH. Staying on the same theme I then moved onto the units that perform the same task on the nose doors. Each door has a mounting frame attached on to that is fixed a support for a lever arm. The right side on is in place while the other is still a WIP. Onto the sides of the leg bolt two fixtures for the arms to link to. We're lacking those units so facsimile ones are underway. To finish the day off I measured up for the water-meth tank straps and put together a take home pack of materials for the week ahead.
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Post by kiwiwreckdiver on Apr 24, 2024 18:27:27 GMT 12
thats starting to look like one happy Hudson again , well done all!!
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Post by skyhawkdon on Apr 24, 2024 20:45:05 GMT 12
Did you mean Friendship?
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Post by denysjones on Apr 27, 2024 21:35:21 GMT 12
A bitsy day on site today with several of the teams' members away for the extended weekend. Dean passed through and left me the outboard forward gear door which had needed a bit of skin work which he'd dealt to as his homework, before disappearing off for a couple of weeks in the sad pursuit of earning an income. The door headed home with me at end of day. I started off with getting some items out of store and ready for despatch to a new home next weekend...details to come. Next mission was in the aft end of the F27 nacelle sorting out earthing and anchor connections from items on the base of the water-meth tank. One was the major elbow which I figured should be pointing towards an obvious aperture in a near structure member but now leads to the question of the plumbing from there as it's so sorted. Next came the week's homework of the water-meth tank retaining straps. The lower one went sweet as but as I tightened the upper one the right end bracket attachments gave way due to what was then obvious to be old cracks. Thus I then rebuilt the area with epoxy and have left for next week. As the day had then warmed up it was a wee paint job in the newly cleaned location which awaits the second ram trunion in 2035. Finally to finish things off I then moved onto the inboard flap segment for BXG. I was focussed on it needing a repaint and the topside turned out as expected, meaning it just needs cleaning and localised surface prep. However the underside turned out to be more major. Over something like 25% of the surface were paint blisters which readily flaked off to reveal powder corrosion below...which you may be able to just discern here especially two large patches top centre. Looks like a total strip coming up!
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