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Re: Source for drawings (British)??

Posted by Dave Robinson on Wed Apr 03, 2002 06:39:09 AM

In reply top Source for drawings (British)?? posted by Cees Broere on Wed Apr 03, 2002 05:18:28 AM

: Hi all,
:
: Following our discussions concering the Whirlwind drawings
: , I was wondering if there is a central indexsystem in Bri
: tain where one could find out where all surviving construc
: tion drawings of British aircraft are kept.
:
: For instance, it is known that all construction drawings f
: or the Halifax are kept at the IWM, the RAFM has thousands
: of Spitfire drawings. Copyzone have scanned drawings for
: Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane, Liberator and Fw-190 on CD
: -rom.But do the various sections of BAe, which used to be
: former companies have their own archives?
:
: What happened to the drawings of aircraft made by Bristols
: , Hawkers, Armstrong Whitworth etc.
:
: Cheers
:
: Cees
Cees,

Many drawings are in the archives at BAe including the Hawker Hurricane, Tornado, Typhoon & Tempest. They also seem to have DH Hornet aswell as the Mosquito (I am sure that MAM also has a copy of some if not all). BMW (as it is now) also has Typhoon and Albermarle drawings!!!.

Unfortunately BAe will not release any of the drawings. I have a registerd aircraft repair company requesting one of the Typhoon drawings and BAe have confirmed that they hold this drawing in their archives but have not, as yet, released it to this company....I am sure that they won't either.

If anyone has, knows of or can get Typhoon drawings then can you let me know.....

Dave

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