The Bluebird Project

Yowsers! Thinking about it though, I can understand Aerospace being so very demanding and so absolute where such critical mechanical componentry is concerned. Certainly good to know that standards are as high as ever, if not ever higher year on year in the industry. This is all a little O/T of cours...

O/T I know but, to answer your post.

I wish QC was that good nowadays, sadly most of the diagrams I see in manuals now are very lack lustre at best.

We wanted a slightly higher spring rate and the closed and ground ends. We got those but the tooling made our free spring the other way around. So long as the throttle closes when it's supposed to we don't give a fling which way our helix goes! :lol: Well in that case, fair enough! If a sound engin...

I am in no way trying to be pedantic (especially when favours are involved) but............. Am I the only one to notice that the new throttle return spring is wound the opposite way to the original in todays POTD (25/9/17) ?? (I would link the image, but do not want to fall foul of forum C.O.C/webs...

I wish I had seen this earlier, I would have offered to make you some paint msks and save all that hand cutting.....

Not too sure if this has been covered elsewhere or not, but here goes. Whilst reading the September (2014) diary entry I noted the mention that Ken Norris notated the struts on the sponsons as 'drag' struts and also the mention that they work in compression and that "we can forgive him that one" whi...

Just a thought, but is the pipe in question not a similar size to that used on motorcycles?

Regarding pic of the day for today..

Certainly an interesting piece of engineering and if the description is as accurate as always then "I bet that put the wind up you"

I'll get me coat....

Had a great trip out - I was invited on a corporate day to fly with The Blades aerobatic display team. http://www.theblades.com/ Basically, they're a CAA accredited airline, licensed to carry passengers, who fly those crazy little planes you see in the Red Bull air races! Oh, and they're all ex-Red...

There are a handful of (distant) photo's of the Dornier being raised on the National Trust South Foreland Lighthouse facebook feed. If you want a peek, here is a link to the page >> National Trust photo's of Dornier being raised Only reason I knew about these was having visited the Lighthouse yester...