The Bluebird Project

you cannot resist it Chris can you. I borrowed the plugs from Speedline to make the set of mouldings that would work. Needed altering and making much lighter than the one you had made for you then sold because it did not work.(I think it was you?) Most of my work is scratch built I don't need to bu...

“I hope to get some photographs of the latest Wren gas turbine this coming weekend, one of my friends who is busy building a 1/8th scale K7 powered by the latest wren engine” - are you aware the original Wren went into administration, and the second incarnation of the company has also been liquidate...

Great news Bill and team! Common sense prevails!

Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, of course, and to quote from earlier “Ernie, your position and interrests become more and more unclear to me. You are playing a very strange game.” It’s fair to say that this forum is “pro k7 running” and rightly so, yet Ernies comments are very negative towards k7...

“restore it run it on Coniston, put it in the museum and maybe once every 2 years take it out and run it on Coniston for the public to see.” Because despite the best endeavours from the BBP, Coniston and the wider community seem dead set against ANY running!! All there is at the moment are different...

The overwhelming sentiment being expressed is that K7 should be kept alive and that our proposed 9/3 month agreement is both fair and a bit of a no-brainer so I've just come off the phone to one of our partners in Coniston having discussed exactly this and it was left such that I asked them to get ...

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Hi Joerg

Thanks for posting that clip, absolutely incredible stuff!! Some great numbers too

They’ve actually planned something! No one could confirm or deny that it was actually the 150th anniversary but it took 50 years of planning so had to be the 200th anniversary instead! https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/17409613.village-to-celebrate-200th-birthday-of-john-ruskin/ I do chuckle when I rea...

The bit I dont get is why all the parties involved . BBP , BEWG , LDNPA ,Ruskin folks etc all not just agree to meet at a local pub put there differences (if there are any) aside and over a few pints hash things out and agree on something and end all this mindless speculation. Hell I’ll even buy th...