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Re: YAM, Halifax Friday the Thirteenth, debate
Posted by Cees Broere on Tue Nov 18, 2003 02:06:19 PM
In reply top Re: YAM, Halifax Friday the Thirteenth, debate posted by Steve Young on Tue Nov 18, 2003 07:53:07 AM
Hi Steve,
You have a point there, I rest my case. So the geographical spread of airframes is important as well.
Reading the posts by some of our Scottish friends where variety in the highlands is very meagre. Or is it?
Cheers
Cees
: : Hi all,
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: : We all know the stories and the opinions in warbird land
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: : bout the Halifax restoration that Yorkshire Air Museum c
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: : ried out during the late eighties and early nineties.
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: : The major concern was that it was not a Halifax but a se
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: : al soup using a lot of fabricated parts, the wings from
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: : Hastings and newbuilt tail and nose sections.
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: : The tail was built by apprentices at BAe Brough, so was
: do
: : ne in a good way. The nose was built by retired voluntee
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: : by using wooden frames and aluminium stringers and skin
: .
: :
: : Now, suppose the IWM willing to give up their nose secti
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: : from PN323 now on show at Lambeth and that was fitted t
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: : the Halifax airframe at Elvington. What would the genera
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: : opinion regarding the authenticity of the airframe be th
: en
: : ?
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: : I am curious to what you think.
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: : Cheers
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: : Cees
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: Interesting question. Personally, I'd say leave well alone
: . At present we have a very good Halifax reconstruction st
: anding on it's legs on an old Halifax station, and a genui
: ne Halifax nose in a museum where the general public can g
: et reasonably close to it. PN323 is important in her own r
: ight, as indeed is 'HR792'. By combining the two, we would
: lose a very rare representation of a Halifax in one of th
: ese locations. I also wonder whether 'HR792's structure wo
: uld be able to support the heavier genuine nose section of
: PN323.