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Outstanding work chap.........

Posted by Tony on Tue Apr 30, 2002 06:13:38 AM

In reply top Project Plan Draft (very long) posted by Simon King on Mon Apr 29, 2002 03:21:39 PM

However, you forgot to mention, that the intention is to have it taxi under it's own power, and ultimately, have it go "tail-up" on a fast taxi run :0)....

Also, we need to build a website, as soon as we have our plans nailed down, to "spread the word"

Tony :0)



: Here's a draft - comments anyone??
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: Westland Whirlwind Project
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: PROJECT BRIEF ? for discussion
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: Background
:
: In February 1936, the Air Ministry issued to the aircraft
: industry, Tender of Specification F37/35 in response to Op
: erational Requirement OR 31 requesting a day- and night-
: fighter for operation at home and overseas. The F37/35 Spe
: cification sought a fighter armed with 4 Hispano-Suiza 20m
: m cannon.
:
: Amongst the designs offered was the Westland P9, a twin en
: gined machine powered by two 885hp Rolls-Royce Peregrine e
: ngines and featuring a magnesium alloy monocoque fuselage.
: The Westland P9 was ultimately adopted as the successful
: submission and a total of 114 aircraft were eventually con
: structed as the Westland Whirlwind, starting in July 1939.
:
:
: The aircraft entered Squadron service in the Autumn of 194
: 0, serving only with 137 and 263 Squadrons. The aircraft w
: as declared obsolescent on January 1st 1944 and withdrawn
: from service with most survivors being scrapped by Septemb
: er of that year. A single airframe, P7048 was retained by
: the manufacturer and registered as G-AGOI flying from Octo
: ber 1946 as a company ?hack?. This aircraft, the sole surv
: ivor was scrapped in May 1947, thus rendering the Westland
: Whirlwind extinct.
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: Project Aim
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: The aim of ?the Westland Whirlwind Project? is to reproduc
: e a single example of the Westland Whirlwind Mk 1 aircraft
: .
:
: It is intended that the project will result in a non-airwo
: rthy reproduction of the Westland Whirlwind, built to orig
: inal plans with, where possible, the original materials. T
: he reproduction will use whatever original parts, includin
: g engines, undercarriage and (deactivated/replica) armamen
: t as are currently available. The intention is to produce
: a reproduction aircraft which is indistinguishable from an
: aircraft in Squadron service during the Second World War.
:
:
: Project Phases
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: 1. Establish Project Committee, capable of raising funds a
: nd supervising each stage of the Project
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: 2. Identify industry support for project
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: 3. Identify national museum support for project
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: 4. Examine opportunities for Lottery Heritage Fund resourc
: ing of project
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: 5. Identify location to act as project focus/store/worksho
: p
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: 6. Identify surviving Whirlwind artefacts in public/ priva
: te collections
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: 7. Investigate potential for donation of such artefacts to
: the project or their use as patterns
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: 8. Seek surviving drawings for aircraft
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: 9. Seek official Air Ministry (AP) publications on the air
: craft, notably servicing guidance
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: 10. Commission missing drawings for the aircraft using CAD
: as appropriate
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: 11. Refurbish existing artefacts
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: 12. Seek materials for the reproduction
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: 13. The project construction will be broken down into a nu
: mber of finite stages viz
: ? Cockpit/nose section
: ? Fuselage
: ? Tail empennage
: ? Wings
: ? Nacelles, including engines/engine mounts/cowlings
: ? Undercarriage.
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: 14. The aircraft will be finished in the then current Day
: Fighter scheme of Dark Green/Ocean Grey/Medium Sea Grey to
: the appropriate British Standards. Given that only 2 Squa
: drons operated the aircraft it might be appropriate that t
: he Squadron codes of both squadrons are exhibited on eithe
: r side of the aircraft. This is however subject to discuss
: ion and it may be that a representative squadron aircraft
: will be chosen at random.
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: 15. Identity of the aircraft will either be that of the la
: rgest remaining original artefact incorporated into the re
: production, or failing that, P7123, a number one on from t
: he final wartime production aircraft.
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: 16. The disposition of the complete airframe is as yet und
: etermined but it is hoped that the reproduction will be of
: sufficient standard for it to be willingly displayed by t
: he Museum authorities in the RAF Museum at Hendon.
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