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Re: Typhoon projects
Posted by Richard Allnutt on Thu Apr 04, 2002 05:41:07 PM
In reply top Re: Typhoon projects posted by Dave Robinson on Thu Apr 04, 2002 05:17:14 PM
Thanks Dave, you are right... same thing goes for the Stirling. I have no conceivable idea why the people who have those fuselage sections in France can't trade/donate/sell them to the group in the UK trying to put a reconstructed airframe together... it just doesn't seem right! What on earth they want with them is beyond me.
Cheers,
Richard
: : Mention of the Jet Age Museum's example really piqued my
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: : ut there... seems like there should be some pooling of r
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: : if not all of these aircraft will be static. Each group
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: : ... sounds a little too idealistic I know, but it would
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: : Cheers,
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: : PS. What are the details on the fuselage in Holland (his
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: : : : : Hi all,
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: : : : : Regarding the Typhoon, apart from the projects by
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: : : : : nd Dave R there are some more individuals who have
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: : : : : I know Roger Marley has a Typhoon cockpit replica
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: : : : : iginal parts, apparently he has also made a rear f
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: : : : : there is the IWM cockpit section. At Twenthe here
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: : : : : Could anyone fill me in about the other projects a
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: : : : : ermore is there a project which attempts to rebuil
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: : : : There are quite a few projects going on....
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: : : : Peter Smith has 3 cockpit sections (complete framewo
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: : : : Brian Barnes in Coventry has JR505 + at least one en
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: : : : Shoreham have a cockpit section with rear main spars
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: : : : no front spars. They have a Tempest V Sabre recover
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: : : : not too bad condition seeing as it crashed.
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: : : : IWM....not history on this one. They never replied
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: : : : One in a museum in Norfolk (not found reference to t
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: : : : Roger Marley....same status as Shoreham but with no
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: : : : Andy (can't remember his surname off the top of my h
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: : : : I also have genuine cockpit section brackets & firew
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: : : : et...to try to display. If I can get the spars then
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: : : : that is a long long way off.
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: : : : + all the remains in Holland
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: : : : All I can remember off the top of my head Cees
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: : : : Dave
: Richard,
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: I totally agree....with the exception of 2 or 3 people eve
: ryone I have come across is of the same idea....but the 2
: or 3 that don't think like that have seem to have the majo
: rity of the useable parts!!! All we need is for Cees to s
: tart making replica fuselages :)
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: Dave