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Post by agalbraith on Jul 17, 2016 9:19:04 GMT 12
Hi Graham, I am about to send you a PM. I am after a little help and may be able to be of assistance with original Typhoon drawings.
I see you are following my Auster rebuild on FB but I am not a big FB user so thought I might contact you through here...
Cheers
Anthony
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Post by noooby on Jul 18, 2016 21:39:24 GMT 12
I'm here, feel free to PM or email me at: g dot allan at typhoonlegacy dot com
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 18, 2016 23:00:56 GMT 12
If you can all wait till Friday, the next WONZ Show episode that will be published that day is an interview I have done with Ian, Bruce and Graeme from this exciting project. I just finished editing the show and I have to say it's mighty interesting.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2016 16:02:51 GMT 12
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Post by suthg on Jul 26, 2016 22:01:12 GMT 12
Thank you Dave for the wonderful experience it was to share on that Podcast!! Today, it is very poignant to further the story of Peter Price himself, for 27th July 1944 is the day he gave his all for Europe and his country. Tomorrow (27 July 2016) will be the 72nd memorial of his passing. I am sorry there is going to be a plethora of images this time around, but there is a lot to share on this young man and where he was fighting and where he ended up. The family photos and personal photos of Peter Price and all materials are courtesy of Mrs Jenny Price, NZ. She actually is Peter's niece but kept her maiden name for her occupation as a journalist. PM Price RNZAF Flying Log Book – Training in NZ  F/O Peter Price Training Log Book by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr P/O PM Price Flying Log Book WWII  P/O Peter Price Log Book by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Family Memorabilia Peter Price & Parents  Family Personal Photos by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Family Personal Notes Post WWII and RNZAF Comms  Family Personal Notes Post War by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Peter March Price last days at home in Auckland  P-O Peter Price Leaving Auckland by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Pilot Officer Peter Price in UK  Peter Price UK by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Casually dressed in a campout in a forward Airfield in France 
Peter Price 609 Squadron in France by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Final Logbook Entries P/O Peter March Price RIP. Note the error of the plane serial in red. That plane JP864 never flew with 609 Squadron! Possibly 198 Squadron sharing the same field.  Last Page PM Price Log Book by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr |
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Post by suthg on Jul 26, 2016 22:05:43 GMT 12
Following on with the records from the 609 Squadron ORB supplied with much care and help by Mark Crame, the 609 Squadron Historian. 27/7/44 Peter Price Flying Typhoon JP843 Section Scrambled on enemy concentration near Tilly-la-Campagne, aircraft directed to 680 yards South-West of Tilly 061599. 2 aircraft fired 16 R/P’s in concentration near smoke. Large M.E.T. on road cannon strafed. P/O Buchanan and F/Sgt Price failed to return on this operation. Today pilots work on a new system in very close support to the Army. A Visual Control Post is actually in the thick of the battle and directs the pilots onto the targets. Sections are lined up on the runway and are Scrambled into the air and then given their target. The first Scramble comes at 12:10 when Cooreman leads Cables, Jaspis and Adams on VCP5 to attack tanks at 073586 S. of Bourguebus. Two objects are seen on the road, apparently burnt out tanks, but they are attacked with 16 R/P’s and 1 A/C fired 8 R/P’s at tank at corner of wood at 073567 but no results are seen. Then at 12:40 Yellow Section are Scrambled on VCP6 and P/O Merrett takes Annear, Billam and Stellin to attack dug in tanks at 103612 near Frenouville. 32 R/P’s are fired on either side of the road and on the road and 1 tank Flamer is claimed. At 17:30 Red Section led by P/O Buchanan go out on VCP10 on an enemy concentration near Tilly la Campagne. Aircraft are directed to 600 yards SW of Tilly (061599). Some Flak was encountered and Price who was No. 2 of the Section broke right and down and was last seen disappearing in the rainstorm. Cloud base was about 2,000 feet and he was not seen again. Adam was hit in the tail and had to come back but Buck and Bav went on. They fired their R/P’s but Buck went too low and Bav saw him pull out too steeply or perhaps blown up turn over and crash in flames. Bav strafed a large MET on the road with cannon. JP843 was later found crashed near Poussy-la-Campagne, 7km SE of Tilly-la-Campagne. Peter Price was buried at the scene, but later reinterred at Ranville Commonwealth War Memorial Cemetery, further north, close to the coast. Location of the Crash of JP843 609 Squadron after P/O Price bailed and parachuted into the vacated village beyond.  JP843 Crash Site by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Sites at Poussy-La-Campagne  Poussy-La-Campagne PP Sites by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Google Maps Street View of P Price Memorial  Memorial Street View by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr The Memorial as commemorated in June 2007  Poussy-La-Campagne Memorial by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Hawker Typhoon Memorial France Noyers-Bocage, near Caen  Hawker Typhoon Memorial France by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr RAF 609 Squadron Losses listed on this memorial. P/O Peter Price is listed amongst them.  Noyers Bocage Memorial by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Sites around the region south-east of Caen showing Tilly-la-Campagne, the target, Poussy-la-Campagne where he parachuted down and also the Banneville-la-Campagne War cemetery near Sannerville. The Ranville Commonwealth War Cemetery was further north towards the coast.  Tilly-la-Campagne & Poussy-la-Campagne by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr 424518 P/O Peter March Price, grave reference IX.F.22; Ranville War cemetery The folks of Poussy-la-Campagne visit here on his memorial date each year when they can. Especially family of the Levesque who laid him to rest initially in their village.  Peter Price Banneville-la-Campagne by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Banneville-la-Campagne War Memorial Cemetery, near Sannerville  Banneville-la-Campagne Cemetery by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr The many gravesites in this War Cemetery. May they RIP…  Banneville-la-Campagne Cemetery View2 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr NOTE - There are links to our Facebook page and the Project Website in my Footer Signature. Please come and visit!! |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 26, 2016 22:55:58 GMT 12
RIP. Lest we forget.
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Post by suthg on Nov 7, 2016 21:00:38 GMT 12
Well, much has happened and time has passed me by with a delay of a month to get this posted. Hawker Typhoon port wing sections found in the Kruze Museum in Auburn, Indiana by a Steve Nelson on Friday 16th September and photos posted on the WIX Forum on Monday 19th September (and subsequently on the Flypast Key Aviation Forum). We made contact and were able to make an immediate deal which had us securing the parts by that Friday. Going back a step, during WWII, there were obviously a few crash landed aircraft and others that were just wrecks in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. Some were salvaged and kept indoors in makeshift museums that later became better organised and ready for tourism. Anyway, this wing had been part of a diorama with fake snow etc in the Belgium Victory Museum near Arlon. It was mainly a WWII vehicle and tank museum, but at some stage perhaps in the late 80's, due to valuable space for real estate, this Museum needed to close and move its legacy on. The Kruze Museum I believe was another truck and tracked vehicle museum in Indiana and they acquired the complete stock from Belgium. Together with the vehicles was this part of a Typhoon wing, which no one had actually recognised, and it was broken and laid out on the floor in another diorama scene. It was not until Steve Nelson realised what he had witnessed there on the floor (he was after all a truck and aviation enthusiast!) and took photos of, that he guessed for an RAF type that needed further investigation and hence his posts on the WIX and Key Forums. These photos of within the Museum are his, and further recent photos belong to our project. Typhoon Port Wing canon section view rear between spars. Cannon mounting holes are visible. Photo c/- Steve Nelson  IMG_0686 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Typhoon Port Wing canon section. Bruised cannon ports visible. Photo c/- Steve Nelson  IMG_0681 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Typhoon mid wing double cannon section, front spar visible. Photo c/- Steve Nelson 
IMG_0687 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Typhoon port Wing sections in a diorama, Kruze Museum in Auburn, Indiana Sept 2016. Photo c/- Steve Nelson  IMG_0685_1 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Notice plated over port landing light, typical of rocket Typhoons. Photo c/- Steve Nelson  IMG_0682 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Typhoon Port Wing outer section. Landing light location at crushed yellow / black section. Photo c/- Steve Nelson  IMG_0688 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Ratio of whole wing found including port aileron. Image C/- Dave Collins  Typhoon port wing section 1 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Typhoon Port Wing centre cannon section. Image C/- Dave Collins  Typhoon port wing section 2 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Typhoon Port Wing Structure - includes port aileron. Image C/- Dave Collins  Typhoon port wing section 3 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Transport of typhoon wing sections arranged. Note the depth of the front spar of section in the vehicle. Photo: Typhoon Legacy Co Ltd  IMG_0840Crp by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Hawker Typhoon port wing laid out. Image: Typhoon Legacy Co Ltd  14438909_410590069111339_1593690089_o-1 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Hawker Typhoon port wing sections placed together at break. Image: Typhoon Legacy Co Ltd  14463739_10157569718935352_2133053123_n-1 by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr Hawker Typhoon Port Outer wing section, damaged aileron. Punctures visible. Image: Typhoon Legacy Co Ltd  14483463_10157569719230352_11784587_n (1) by Graeme Sutherland, on Flickr These sections of wing will be very valuable when combined with the wings scan we have done on MN235, while geometry and other details for internal structure are already known; these sections will give us quick access to all of the internal fittings and fixtures that we would otherwise have spent a significant amount of time investigating. I have some more photos of recent work on the stripping of the supercharger, some may have seen already on our Facebook page. Graeme |
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Post by keroburner on Nov 8, 2016 1:38:31 GMT 12
Very impressive find. That must provide a massive boost to the project and the type in general. Thanks for the update.
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Post by suthg on Mar 16, 2017 21:44:50 GMT 12
WOW! It's been a long while since I last posted on this thread. There are quite a lot of images I could load onto my Flickr Album on this project but the video speaks for itself for progress over the last twelve months. We now have more highly skilled and talented people on board to progress in different avenues - such as a talented 3D digital draughtsperson Nico using Solid Works in Europe who has done some rather long distance venturing to borrow parts to copy, plus an IT specialist from Czechoslovakia who is building us a new Website for us and is a fab digital artist. We have contacts in UK for research gathering and many more of the team in Canada - some of whom have volunteered their valuable spare time and petrol to shift a large wing section 3,700km from a Museum in Indiana to its new home in British Columbia. There were several stages and different people and freighting businesses who helped this transfer. I am continuing with the Historical side of the project reporting on 440 RCAF Squadron ORB history day by day on our Facebook page until VE Day and then I will swap over and start 486 Squadron ORB stories going forward from May. - www.facebook.com/hawkertyphoonjp843/ and for a while on this old webpage - the old style one but we will re-use the same url with the new webpage being developed... www.typhoonlegacy.com/And our Youtube Channel just developed... Meanwhile, you could browse this 6min video Thanks for checking things out!! Graeme |
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Post by noooby on Mar 17, 2017 5:20:51 GMT 12
And subscribe to our YouTube channel too please!!!
We may not be as active on social media as others, but that doesn't mean we aren't moving forward!
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Post by typhoonlegacy on Jun 2, 2019 12:07:34 GMT 12
Hi Everyone! While I must apologise for the near two years of silence, I'm hoping to make it up to you with news on recent progress. There has been quite a bit going on in the shop, starting with the set-up of our own small manual machine shop. This area will significantly help move things forward with the cockpit section and various aircraft bits, but also support our own need for tooling and fixture work in-house. While we won't be able to some of the extreme large turning, the majority of the Typhoon parts are well within our scope. We started 2019 with some pretty intense work on fixtures, primarily finishing up the monocoque (fuselage) fixture and radiator fairing fixture that we began in 2017. In addition to these items, we also put together a monstrous fixture table to build the cockpit section on! Production is now underway on the fuselage frames, and will resume shortly on the radiator frames. Our focus will be to complete the forward monocoque structure before moving on to the wing. During the work on these two areas, the cockpit will be starting up on the other side of the shop, and some smaller assemblies (wing tips, elevators, ailerons, flaps, fin, h-stab, and rudder) can all be plucked away at in a fixture just now being assembled. I'm having a bit of an issue uploading images, but please hope over to our facebook page for the most recent detailed images: www.facebook.com/hawkertyphoonjp843/ |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 2, 2019 13:29:48 GMT 12
Sounds great! Keep up the good work! We shall have to do another WONZ Show podcast with you guys in the coming months.
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Post by kiwi285 on Jun 4, 2019 11:47:00 GMT 12
Man I would love to work on a project like this but to do it right you would need all of the equipment involved metal work. The use of computers these days to recreate and reverse engineer the missing sections is amazing. I guess if needs be you could also 3D print some of the more complicated parts from the computer generated files.
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Post by typhoonlegacy on Jun 21, 2019 12:25:02 GMT 12
Sounds great! Keep up the good work! We shall have to do another WONZ Show podcast with you guys in the coming months. Hi Dave, That would be wonderful, we will have to connect to set something up; I'll work on getting a few team members sitting down at the same time! ~Ian |
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Post by typhoonlegacy on Jun 21, 2019 12:32:33 GMT 12
Man I would love to work on a project like this but to do it right you would need all of the equipment involved metal work. The use of computers these days to recreate and reverse engineer the missing sections is amazing. I guess if needs be you could also 3D print some of the more complicated parts from the computer generated files. kiwi285, I've been working on the tool collection for more than 20 years now, we've got almost everything needed aside from some of the special tooling that we will need to make as things come up, but that can primarily be built with the other tools  . CAD and CNC are amazing, and while they play a huge role in the project, there are some limitations too. 3D printing is an interesting one, a few years ago I was scoffing at some of the discussions of aerospace applications, but it looks like there may be a few sintering machines capable of matching cast materials standards; it's a very fast moving manufacturing area, so we'll see what can be done through the life of the project. Ian |
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Post by typhoonlegacy on Aug 23, 2022 6:14:17 GMT 12
Hello All,
Wanting to share a quick update on the project regarding engines. I would like to thank everyone who helped us keep this quiet until we were able to share. ~Ian
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