Restoration of Whirlwind XR485 (Completion) ….. Hurrah re the Westland Whirlwind, the paint team have now completed the restoration painting. Pictures of the completion are below and a full gallery of images can be found by following the green link at the bottom of the page. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] This is the last […]
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The view from this side of the vinegar!! Over the summer I have had the great pleasure….with a little blood (well many scrapes and bruises), sweat (some of that was heavy), but no tears, of restoring the Bensen B7 Autogyro (see previous Blogs). There it was, having been hoisted unceremoniously down from the ceiling in
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Restoration of Auster VX123 (part II) …… As reported previously, we were donated the Auster fuselage and wings which were in poor condition. The fuselage was bead blasted and etch primed by a local firm. See Previous Auster Restoration ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Airframe of the Auster Since then we have stripped the
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