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Re: Whitley recovery report

Posted by Elliott on Tue May 07, 2002 07:01:43 AM

In reply top Re: Whitley recovery report posted by Cees on Tue May 07, 2002 03:44:59 AM

Hi Cees

Most of the parts will go again - the exhaust stub is a bit mangled so may be useful as a pattern only. I'll leave that to the people doing the Merlin. The oil cooler & header tank need a bit of work but they'll be fine in the end I hope.

We've got most of the manuals - the thing we don't have is component grawings. I have plenty of GA drawings. The nose of the aircraft will be particularly difficult. We have very few nose parts and although the drawings are detailed, they are of the GA variety only! This bit will be a real slog.

Any news on your recovery in May? Any chance of some spare parts Cees as well as the ones you have already so kindly offered us?! I'll do a big write up soon for the aviation press - so fantastic PR opportunity!!!

Elliott




:
: Elliott,
:
: Great to see that you found useful items for the project.
: Are the parts you recovered usable for the reconstruction
: or will they be used as patterns only?
:
: You probably know this but in the PRO there is also a (bas
: ic) manual for the Whitley as well as a publication concer
: ning its Frazer Nash nose turret ( I have had copies made
: after our recovery of N1521).
:
: Do you have all necessary information (drawings and/or par
: ts) available to be able to reconstruct the whole airframe
: , or do you still need information about certain areas of
: the Whitley?
:
: Cees

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