Sunday Brunch Scramble - Bicester - 4th January
- Thread starter BartyB
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That looks like a really great event. Nice pictures too, thanks for sharing.
Well done on braving the cold!
Well done on braving the cold!
BartyB
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And some more BH pics (courtesy of Graham Simons)...
The convoy, sorry social run, heads off to BH"¦
Even a panoramic shot couldn't get all the Porsches in...
Talking to stay warm"¦
Cool cars. Cool people. Cool venue. Freeeezin' weather"¦.
Loads to see along the avenues...
One of Autofarm's projects...
And there were plenty of two-wheelers too...
The convoy, sorry social run, heads off to BH"¦
Even a panoramic shot couldn't get all the Porsches in...
Talking to stay warm"¦
Cool cars. Cool people. Cool venue. Freeeezin' weather"¦.
Loads to see along the avenues...
One of Autofarm's projects...
And there were plenty of two-wheelers too...
ted walker
New member
Very atmospheric shot of the New Zealand built BE2c.
vitesse
Active member
Very jealous of all you local to this event-what a great show-nothing like this oop north except of course Porkers in the Trough coming up July 5th which is of course a driving happening.
However why write in code[&o]-presumably the BE2c is the lovely biplane with that superb wooden propellor--my sadly departed father was a patternmaker who worked for Rolls Royce
on quality control for Merlin engines mainly at Trafford Park,Manchester but travelled all around-however he started out with them making wooden 2 bladed props for Spitfires before the metal props were adopted.
However why write in code[&o]-presumably the BE2c is the lovely biplane with that superb wooden propellor--my sadly departed father was a patternmaker who worked for Rolls Royce
on quality control for Merlin engines mainly at Trafford Park,Manchester but travelled all around-however he started out with them making wooden 2 bladed props for Spitfires before the metal props were adopted.
vitesse
Active member
Martin,
Many many thanks for the link-really fascinating stuff what I've read so far-some of the engine details bear so much resemblance to later Porsche engineering including dry sump,hollow valves,alloy crankcase , separate cylinders-then to the Merlin engine with V 12 cylinder layout-by then water cooled-however air cooled radial engines seemed to take centre stage for a long time.Presumably the aircraft had flown to Bicester.
Many many thanks for the link-really fascinating stuff what I've read so far-some of the engine details bear so much resemblance to later Porsche engineering including dry sump,hollow valves,alloy crankcase , separate cylinders-then to the Merlin engine with V 12 cylinder layout-by then water cooled-however air cooled radial engines seemed to take centre stage for a long time.Presumably the aircraft had flown to Bicester.
ted walker
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Yes in fact there are two of them there.I think the plan is for more aircraft from the same collection to arrive over the next 12 months.
vitesse
Active member
Thanks again for the info-interesting how early on aluminium was adopted by the aircraft industry & used for highly stressed castings although wall thicknesses were generous to cope & power outputs modest-obviously down to weight saving but also easier to cast complex parts.
Recently had our steingrau 924S at a car restorer ,Gratt Motor Company in Openshaw,Manchester to do both front wing sill bottoms-& spent quite some time examining a beautiful Jaguar SS100-2.5 litre sports car they are restoring from bare metal.Whilst I knew it had some aluminium panels,I hadn't realised before that is an all aluminium body-Chris there was having difficulty at times with the material as it is basically a pre-war aeronautical grade & difficult to weld to more modern grades where pieces have to be let in.
He managed to source an original unused rear nearside wing which needed a huge amount of work to get it to match the offside one (basically each body was a one off) & this was despite paying £12K for the wing!-when finished the SS will be worth £300K-only 7 now registered in UK.
He also specialises in Mercedes Pagoda's-again I hadn't realised that they have alloy bonnet,boot ,roof & doors(skinned on a cast aluminium frame)
Sorry ,a bit off track-haven't seen in the info any cost details of the reverse engineering so far for the De Havilland copy.
Recently had our steingrau 924S at a car restorer ,Gratt Motor Company in Openshaw,Manchester to do both front wing sill bottoms-& spent quite some time examining a beautiful Jaguar SS100-2.5 litre sports car they are restoring from bare metal.Whilst I knew it had some aluminium panels,I hadn't realised before that is an all aluminium body-Chris there was having difficulty at times with the material as it is basically a pre-war aeronautical grade & difficult to weld to more modern grades where pieces have to be let in.
He managed to source an original unused rear nearside wing which needed a huge amount of work to get it to match the offside one (basically each body was a one off) & this was despite paying £12K for the wing!-when finished the SS will be worth £300K-only 7 now registered in UK.
He also specialises in Mercedes Pagoda's-again I hadn't realised that they have alloy bonnet,boot ,roof & doors(skinned on a cast aluminium frame)
Sorry ,a bit off track-haven't seen in the info any cost details of the reverse engineering so far for the De Havilland copy.
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