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  1. Chilton

    What did you do on your airplane project today?

    best thing is when the Phillips driver gets broken from that abuse you can bend and grind it to make a cotter pin extractor, I never realised they were available as commercial tools until about 20 years after I was first given a broken off driver to modify!
  2. Chilton

    Those Were the Days!

    I started my first job in 1990 in school holidays earning £60 a week which meant after paying my fuel I got 1 hour flying each week until the bill for my motorbike insurance came around and cost 4 weeks wages!
  3. Chilton

    Milling machine/lathe options

    As said above it depends what you want to make, whatever size you buy will be too small for something but it is easier to do small work on big machines than big work on small machines. I have a TOS S28 lathe which will swing a 13 inch diameter and 48 inch length, 1970s built and a 1950s Elliott...
  4. Chilton

    remote controlled circuit breakers: ?what options exist

    Hopefully this does not violate any of Bills warnings, but I have a personal observation which might be thought provoking. I had a lightning strike in IMC which resulted in tripping both avionics busses on a non home built aircraft, after a cooling period, mostly while I thought about options I...
  5. Chilton

    Those Were the Days!

    My second aviation job, when I was 18, the boss had bought 6 Tiger Moths and an Auster 3 from the military at the end of the war for £12 each, when I started he had just sold the first one for £35000. Up until then he would pull one out of the store, quick fabric job and fly it for 10 years or...
  6. Chilton

    Boom boom boom boom

    My first thought was this one if you can cope with the British humour!
  7. Chilton

    Britain's Top 10 Most Beautiful Aircraft

    I remember seeing the Speed Six in rebuild back about the early 1990s, alongside DH Dragonfly G-AEDT. Neither at the time gave much of a clue how attractive they would be finished!
  8. Chilton

    Britain's Top 10 Most Beautiful Aircraft

    Different strokes for different folks, but I love the look of Alex Henshaw’s Mew Gull configured for the 1938 Kings Cup race, probably the most extreme form of Jack Cross’ artistry. I do fit the cut down canopy aircraft being about the same height as Alex was when the cockpit was cut to fit him.
  9. Chilton

    Britain's Top 10 Most Beautiful Aircraft

    Good start for the list, DH Comet, Rapide, Albatross and Hornet. I would add Percival Mew Gull and Vega Gull, Miles Hawk Speed Six and Sparrow Hawk, Chilton DW/1 and Spitfire, but these lists usually seem to be massively biased to military types!
  10. Chilton

    Formula-I?

    While this works in something like carts it would probably not in aircraft because of reliability and trust in the engine. It is not like we are talking about crate O-200 engines here and by the time you have built an industrial V twin conversion reliable enough to fly with it is no longer a...
  11. Chilton

    What Skills to Fly the Stewart S-51 Mustang?

    What the Pitts cannot train, which the T6 can (and does) is energy and inertia, the heavy fast moving T6 or P51 / S51 will make demands of the pilot which are not there in the light weight Pitts. The Pitts lighter weight does introduce a different set of challenges which the T6 cannot train...
  12. Chilton

    Licence-Built Luftwaffe - Postwar Copies of WW2 German Planes

    Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it, which is also why we have warbirds in allied paint schemes. Which does not mean there are not people in the world with other reasons to display the insignia, but they need to be weeded out by other means.
  13. Chilton

    Cowling design - preflight & maintenance access

    On the slower end of the range, the Tiger Moth has a nose bowl held with 4 2BA screws, bottom cowl is hinged at the back with 2 2BA and held to the nose bowl with 2 2BA. The top cowl is held with 2 2BA each side to the bearer, which also hold the side panel each side. The side panels are latched...
  14. Chilton

    The 737 is an honest airplane

    Inappropriate MCAS activation is handled the same as any other trim runaway, and that has always been trained in the simulator. The immediate actions checklist and reference items are the same and any trained pilot should have been able to cope with the situation whether they knew about MCAS or...
  15. Chilton

    The 737 is an honest airplane

    I started out on the 737-200, now just got checked on the -800 and max 8, missed out the ones in between. Personally I feel that they are still very much the same aircraft, except for the stretch limiting pitch angles which makes for a pig on takeoff / rotation. The new planes are much heavier...
  16. Chilton

    Those Magnificent Men.......

    I believe a lot of Gipsy and Cirrus engines and some VW (the Demoiselle) as well as Continental engines. The Annular plane was in a side room of the council hangar at Shoreham airport for some years, not sure if it is still there, I have not been in for years. The Demoiselle was flown by Joan...
  17. Chilton

    Books for a cold winter evening…

    Alex Henshaw, Flight of the Mew Gull, Sigh for a Merlin and Wings Across the Great Divide. Just started on Bob Hoover Forever Flying. Also West with the night (Beryl Markham), fiction, The Grasshoppers are coming, about interwar flying. Non fiction at the moment Tailless Aircraft Design (Nicol).
  18. Chilton

    Aviation Hoarding

    I think it does reproduce, just that unfortunately, like some humans, what reproduces is the trash that should not rather than the good stuff!
  19. Chilton

    Aviation Hoarding

    Pretty much exactly what I did with sorting out after dad passed, except I added in buckets for rivets, split pins, nails, control hardware…. Dad had a habit of putting everything in a scrounge box and never sorting out, just start another box when one filled up, some of the boxes were...
  20. Chilton

    Time to clean the hanger

    When Dad passed 3 years ago I had to begin a massive tidying project before I could do anything else, he used to throw any hardware removed into a scrounge box and mostly forgot what was there, also over the last 20 years as Parkinsons took hold things got dropped and lost so. There was a huge...
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