The Bluebird Project

A Beryl was also changed due to ingestion of a foreign object, though it left the intakes in tact

The Beryl at Filching is MV38 from memory, it's a long time ago I worked on it. There was indeed still fuel in it, but you wouldn't be able to tell where it came from, probably one of Paul's stretchings of the truth I think!! The Beryl was very much like R37, very very gritty sounding when turned ov...

I wouldn't push to find out where it was Nigel, especially as I know people wiith similar collections. That some you saw weren't restored is actually pleasing to my ear. BCE has the Hunt McLaren M23/8-1, still with the flies sqaushed on the screen and bodywork from it's last run, anad Vanwall VW10, ...

Were they mainly red and white? I have been around a huge place where there are an awful lot of red and white (and the odd silver and orange) F1 cars, all vacuum sealed in big bags. BCE had a big collection when I worked for him (still does) in a private museum, that no one goes in! Weirdest collect...

A groat is currency, surely? Now a firkin, there's a measurement!!! We have a measurement based on the distance between a certain kings shoulder and the finger tip of his outstretched arm (the yard and Henry VIII) and a railway gauge based based on the width of a horses arse (the distance of early t...

Like a swan going past. Not much happening on the surface, but going like the clappers below!

I was bloody close, well, half right! I sort of borrowed the idea when we put a coolant tank in K3, between the cockpit and the engine, disguised as the cockpit bulkhead. Sadly we didn't baffle it enough, and the strengthening tubes pulled out, and it leaked all over Trafalgar Square!!! Have you mea...

A majorstep forward, well done!!! One thing puzzling me, the fuel tank. I always thought (as per the drawings) that it "merely" sat on flanges on the tops of the frame rails, about one third of the way up the tank, is there an additional strap or something? (like a steel band with turnbuck...

Just to let you know. Manuscript 1st draft at the publishers

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