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Not good.
Posted by Tom on Mon Nov 26, 2001 03:09:57 PM
In reply top Thanks Tony, how complete is it? posted by Tony on Mon Nov 26, 2001 02:13:42 PM
When I saw it earlier in the year it was looking decidedly knackered, sometime in the pats the wings were cut off with oxy-acetylene leaving the forgings in a bad way. The top fuselage skins all need to be replaced as they're past the static rebuild stage, I couldn't say what condition the interior is. Cockpit was bare but as it's the only one in existence something will have to be done to stop it degrading any further. I talked with someone at Kemble whilst washing our DC3 one day who told me that it still wasn't known if anything would be done to the a/c as it is in such a state, shame if it is left.
Tom :(
P.S. someone was running up a merlin on a test bed truck at Kemble for, reportedly, one of Rick Roberts' hurris. Man that thing needed good brakes especially as they started it in coarse pitch!!!