Lancaster!

IanHenry said:
Yes the Mosquito is made of Balsa and Plywood. The last time that I went to Elvington air museum near <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">York</st1:place></st1:city> they were in the process of rebuilding one. I doubt whether they will have finished it.
Incidentally if you are ever near York the museum is well worth a visit, it’s situated on a second world war bomber base (Halifax’s) and you can certainly sample the atmosphere and feel the ‘ghosts’ in the place.
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Ian.
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Whether she is finished I'm not sure but I visit Elvington fairly regularly (I only live down the road from it) and it's looking very intact and is in the main hangar on display now. There are always people tinkering on it but it certainly looks complete, or almost so.
 
The cold-molded technique used in Mosquito production was very similar to modern boat-building and had many benefits. The resulting material was extremely strong for its weight. In many areas stronger and lighter than its steel or alloy counterpart in "conventional" airframes.

The other neat thing was the way, just as you do in plastic modeling, they built most of the major components into each half of the fuselage before joining the two halves. This made it so much easier to install wiring and systems without the need to be crawling around in cramped dark spaces.

Pretty advanced for 60 years ago...:engel016:
 
That's a most interesting bit of info. Makes me want to construct a few kits now too!

Just to add to the Midlands conversation- Burton upon Trent is unfortunately where I am.
 
Owroit, mayt? Arr. Gan dan tu Banks's fur a pint, like? :guinness: :)

BIP (British Industrial Plastics), a couple of miles from here in Oldbury, used to make the glue that held the Mossie together, in an earlier life. Thing is, it was a typical Government wartime order. Rushed through, no real planning or testing - the aircraft weren't expected to last long enough for the glue to fail. The downside is that they did and delaminating Mosquitos were a bane towards the end of their life.

When my Mum joined in the early 1970s, BIP labs still had a polished wooden propellor presented by deHavilland hanging in the corridor. I wonder if it's still there, or whether that delaminated too? :engel016:

You have my sympathy being in Burton, Dan... Are you in a bit that smells of beer, or a bit that smells of Marmite?

Cosford has a Sterling, but unfortunately they charge you the earth if you want to get in to take a look at anything. And, of course, being a large, old, aircraft, it simply has to be haunted. It's something I don't remember ever having seen in FS, though, once you've finished the Lanc?
 
Ted Cook has a Stirling for Fs2004 and Alphasim had one for Fs2002 that didn't port to Fs2004 due to anim problems.
 
IanP said:
You have my sympathy being in Burton, Dan... Are you in a bit that smells of beer, or a bit that smells of Marmite?
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Fortunately, neither- in one of the very few roads out of reach of the industrial bits!

Don't worry, I'm not a Burtoner though. From Enfield!
 
No Stirling at Cosford ( or anywhere else unfortunately ). Its their Lincoln thats supposed to be haunted.

For our transatlantic chums who don't know what a Lincoln is, think Lancaster on steroids.
 
No Stirlings exist. I seem to remember that someone is re-building a section of a Stirling from a chunk found in part of shed or outbuilding.

The Halifax was luckier, there is a full size replica in Yorkshire and I think another in Canada. The RAF museum has a crashed one, which was brought up from a lake after 40 years.

Much as I would love an FSX Stirling, I would think sales (the bottom line) would be about a tenth of a Lancaster.
 
Paul K said:
No Stirling at Cosford ( or anywhere else unfortunately ). Its their Lincoln thats supposed to be haunted.

For our transatlantic chums who don't know what a Lincoln is, think Lancaster on steroids.
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Please explain... i've never heard this story...
 
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the mighty Lincoln :jump:

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calypsos said:
No Stirlings exist. I seem to remember that someone is re-building a section of a Stirling from a chunk found in part of shed or outbuilding.
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This fuselage section was used as a gardenshed for about sixty years and is currently in a museum near Arnhem.

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:)
 
letsgetrowdy said:
Please explain... i've never heard this story...
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Rowdy, watch the Youtube that Smoothie linked to; explains the entire story. Even if its all a load of tosh, its good fun ! :)

Thanks for the photo and the link, Smoothie. I remember playing with my friends in a pair of abandoned Lincolns at RAF Watton as a boy. I wish I'd realised their significance and built up more memories of them; the only things I recall now are sitting in the pilot's seat, and clambering over that huge main wing spar.

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Paul K said:
Rowdy, watch the Youtube that Smoothie linked to; explains the entire story. Even if its all a load of tosh, its good fun ! :)

Thanks for the photo and the link, Smoothie. I remember playing with my friends in a pair of abandoned Lincolns at RAF Watton as a boy. I wish I'd realised their significance and built up more memories of them; the only things I recall now are sitting in the pilot's seat, and clambering over that huge main wing spar.

:ernae:
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Now theres a coincidence i was probably playing there also
and we are about the same age!
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