Recent content by Micetro

A very small percentage of the airframe and one that isn't stressed particularly highly compared to the wings and tail section. If you're going down that road then why not say that the Spit was made of wood (wingtip structure, outer wing rib parts and horizontal stabilizer parts) and the Hurri...

The Vampire was not constructed in wood, the majority of the airframe was constructed in Dural and only the forward portion of the central pod was made from wood.

SpitTyler, A restorer was asking the same question as yourself about a decade ago for the BBMF MkIIa Spit but there is very little information out there and no surviving examples unfortunately which is a shame, especially when we have so many BofB Hurricanes either flying or under restoration...

If it is an actual full-sized Tempest the control surfaces are different on the Sea Fury I'm afraid.

Elmas, Frequency changing in single-seat fighters using the early War radios was carried out remotely using a mechanical Teleflex cockpit lever-cable-radio mounted lever system and later changed to electro-mechanical frequency changing, I'm not sure that fine tuning was possible as they were...

OK thanks, you might find there's a difference when the different mark Merlins are fitted due to the weight changes, also if the armour plate is fitted to the radiators for low-level ops because it all affects the CofG. In my experience with Spits I can never recall fitting five weights when all...

Shortround, where did your information come from that says the MKIX required five ballast weights please?

True and I see what you mean about the length of the cylinders. Looking at the Pegasus as other people have mentioned, with the front cover corroded away the push rods would also fall away, what are your thoughts?

Looking at US types of the period the Dauntless was fitted with a Cyclone and a counterweight prop for reference; Modeling Hamilton Standard Counterweight Propeller

That's very true Sid, good spot 👍 Could it be a Wright Cyclone? A number of Dutch aircraft were fitted with the Cyclone and the 'Bracket/Counterweight' type propeller was a Hamilton Standard design that a number of European companies built under licence.

Looking through the types list for the Perseus which would likely have been fitted with a spinner, the remains of which you can see in the photos, I'm guessing at a MKII Lysander, a number were lost in that area during the Blitzkrieg in 1940 and likely after that too.

That looks very British and Bristol to me; Dh Bracket prop, you can see the three counterweights, nine cylinders and no sign of any push rods so I'm thinking Bristol Perseus... ... Oh also forgot to mention that it isn't direct drive, you can see the reduction gear planetary gears