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Re: Tony C, about your visiti to Elvington...

Posted by Bruce Gordon on Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:28:00 PM

In reply top Re: Tony C, about your visiti to Elvington... posted by Cees Broere on Fri Feb 14, 2003 09:18:42 AM

Cees

For an explanation of the wings on the Queen Mary, you need to go right back to the start of the project.

You will remember that the wing centre section was partly based on a Hastings from Catterick. The outer wings also came from the same aeroplane.

Some way into the build, they were offered a pair of brand new, crated, Hastings outer wings, and these were fitted to the finished product. The ones from the Catterick Hastings then went onto the Queen Mary.

Now if you really want to confuse the issue, look for the Anson wings in the main hangar, painted with a meatball, for the premier of the film 'Pearl Harbour'.....

All the best


Bruce

: Tony,
:
: This is getting more and more interesting by the minute.
:
: OK, I assumed that they had already finished the new tailp
: lane and fitted it to HR792 when I saw the photographs as
: posted some weeks ago.
:
: I was wrong.
:
: Looking at your photo's again I noticed a wing under const
: ruction in front of the Anson. I thought it was made of wo
: od first and assumed it to be the one from the Anson. Look
: ing at it again it seems to be of metal and primered. The
: hinge sticking out looks like a Halifax hinge and based on
: this I assume (again) that this is the new metal tailplan
: e for HR792. Why then does it take them some two years to
: build a tailplane when they recreated a Halifax in a bit m
: ore time (sort of).
:
: If you look closely at the photo's of the wings in the Que
: en Mary you see the camouflage and the roundel. Well, the
: camouflage matches the camouflage of HR792 (too light gree
: n and brown). What I find strange is that I don't seem to
: notice the flaps or the lack of recesses in the wing trail
: ing edge to fit them into, so this puzzles me (you too?) q
: uite a bit. But, they are large enough to fit to HR792 and
: I cannot think of another aircraft large enough to need o
: uter wings with the same camouflage as HR792.
:
: The vertical fins of the aircraft were made by BAe at Brou
: gh and looked to be made from aluminium ( I have a video o
: f the reconstruction of "Freddy" and footage is shown how
: the fins are being fitted etc).
:
: " To the untrained eye, I do not think that this would be
:
: : noticed. "
:
: To the trained eye this would stick out like a sore thumb.
:
:
: Generally spoken (my words at least), she needs quite some
: more (or renewed) effort to finish her and to make her re
: semble a Halifax even better than she is doing now. As you
: mention the whole feeling of tiredness of the airframe is
: very evident.
:
: Points of interest:
: -tailplane (OK we know they are working on that)
: -outer wings (well according to Tony's photo's, it looks l
: ike they are attempting to do something about that as well
: )
: -engines/exhausts/collector rings/wrong propellors (don't
: know their plans on that)
: -nose glazing (I know they are working on that one too)
:
: Cheers
:
: Cees

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