My Military Vehicle collection, Aviation, Astronomy and occasionally modelling and model railways usually feature in my videos. Many videos are just uploaded as an online backup of the content, rather than being specifically produced for an audience. I hope you find something here you enjoy, even if it's just a relaxing cruise around some country lanes from the hot seat of one of my Jeeps.
I bet the two piers are indeed great. I am in the early stages of design for a fall build of a (hopefully) dual pier shed. Videos like yours inspire me to go forward. I am so glad its going well for you and hope you are collecting billions and billions of photons!
I have a Ford Build Date 12-16-44. I am in Washington state on the Pacific coast. I find these videos informative although its not my first jeep. I had a very rough Ford with steel ID plates my Dad bought me in 1970. Then In the 80s I picked up 2 all original rust free Greek returns. When I moved to WA State from the State of Georgia on the Atlantic Coast, my Dad sold all 3 to Richard Grace in Fairburn GA. These were essentially stolen from me. They were sold without my knowledge or permission. I was not able to locate Richard Grace to see if they could be recovered when I could gather enough money to do so. It was like losing three members of my family. After attending the 80th anniversary of D Day in Normandy. I was so moved by the enormous number of restored WWII vehicles, I felt something was really missing from my life and I realized it was those jeeps. So I started halfway looking and found the Ford I just bought a few weeks ago. I am a heavy equipment dealer and have a full shop, so it will be a great winter project. My wife says it will keep me out of trouble.......
Great info. I had forgotten some of this. The radiator cap you had never seen before was common in the US. The flipper on the top was to relieve pressure when you open hot. The 24V distributor was a military standard. I think the cap was for the M38, M38AI and M151. The other parts I thing were the same too. I don't know if the actual distributor would interchange or not. The spark plugs are essentially aircraft spark plugs to be waterproof. This was military standard too. There was a 6 Cyl version of the waterproof distributor for the M37 and M715. I just bought a 44 GPW delivery date 12-16-44
I'm guessing the model companies are going for a slightly later era than the first horse drawn wagons. I'd imagine that by the time of the first steam locos, they were probably using cast iron wheels, but my knowledge of that earliest period is a bit limited. Remember that these wooden wagonways were still 100 years before the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
@@century_bombers Yes you could be right about the wheels but the FR has brakes on there Gravity train. Quarries however are usually flat bottom with rope inclines so some railways would not have brakes but may have chocks (or stones) to stop wagons moving under gravity?
Hi I have sent you a message on FB I was asking what the size of the square white and black paint on the dodge. As I am want to do mine as well in Australia I am restoring. I got a few radio stand and bracket for it come with my dodge. Thanks
Thanks for the video. My father was a Regimental Havildar Major, 4 Field Artillery Regiment, Indian Army. The regiment's artillery was this QF25 Pounder. He completed 15.8 years of service, and served 1962 Indo-China war & 1965 Indo-Pak war. Retired from army service in June 1970
Excellent video, nice to see what the Orlit hut looked like before the vandals got to it, it’s in a very sorry state now sadly. Who do you need to speak to regarding permission to explore what’s left? As I would like to see the stuff over on the western side of the airfield for myself one day, before it’s gone forever.
Marvellous video Stephen, I’ve often wondered what’s left of the place other than the bits you can see from the roads. Would be nice to do an update to see what’s left in 2024.
@@century_bombers ah I couldn’t tell! It’s great! The video and research is awesome too of course. I live 30 mins away from the airfield and hope to visit soon.
This is awesome for a number of reasons, one is that it is a lot of work to put a shed like this together. Most videos make it seem easy and skip a lot of steps. In this one, all of it is there and gave me a ton of ideas how I can replicate it in my backyard. And, at the same time, not feel bad that it will take a while to build. Thank you so much for this thorough video JJK
Thank you. It was a lot of hard work and several other people have said how they encountered underground obstacles that made the groundworks so much harder! You have to just keep focused on the end goal and on days where things aren't working out, take a break and come back fresh another day. Also, don't make the design set in stone, as once you start using it, things may have to change. That's one of the reasons I didn't bury my cables in a duct in the pier. I don't remote image and move around with my laptop as the sky changes. Having cables and power supplies that are free to move works for me better than a fixed position.
Great video, I live just 10 miles away and visit every summer when the museum is open for a brew and a chat. Can anyone access the areas you did or is it private property? I spoke with a lady from the museum a couple of years ago who said they were trying to start walking tours of the site, not sure if they ever did
Also check out my "Masters of the Air" 100th Bomb Group airfield, two part tour - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sJZ6jEXc6mU.htmlsi=F4MXoCUGnz575DDx ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8GVfDbgnqFQ.htmlsi=wSRSUjZRoSlqhuI9
When I got my M201, it had the Hotchkiss sealed distributor. When the ignition lead insulation broke down, I replaced it with a standard distributor, fitted with electronic ignition. The coil was mounted on the block. Later replacement coils have been 24v versions from a Land Rover. I've seen a number of M201s that have had the distributor replaced with the wartime type and various different coil styles, I presume depending on what people could find and whether the M201 was converted back to 12 or 6v.
@@century_bombers are you on the UK Hotchkiss Facebook page? Thanks for the reply. Just currently going through mine and was planning to go duel purpose to RAF markings.
@@chrisbeard5884 No, not in that group. I'm on G503 and the Universal Jeep Supplies FB pages. I used motorway grade magnetic plastic to make my RAF markings. 2mtr x 600mm roll of white off Ebay for £16. I gave it a light wet sand to key the surface, then painted with enamels. Check out my website for more info about my two Jeeps and Dodge. There's a link in the video description.
I've visited a few of these sites in the past, thanks for making such an detailed record of what some of the structures we found were as we weren't too sure at the time. Really appreciated the time you put into making this 😊👍
I was told recently that they don't have access to the airfield any more and the taxiway between the museum and airfield is no longer suitable for moving the heavy aircraft like the Victor and Nimrod.
Thank you for this gift. I am an historian and it is nice to have an historic narration for the tour. It is amazing how fast nature takes back over once abandoned.
Fantastic. Beautiful. Lecky motor and prop sound a lot better than ICE. !!!! Never thought I'd say that. I love glow and petrol and go way back to the 80s flying. This model is wonderful. Love the landing. Great stuff.
It's an impressive model and flew well, but I'm ICE all the way. Electric is just soulless to me. I've had a few small electric models, but love the sound and smell and engineering of petrol and glow engines. However, due to the shape of the Spitfire nose, I can see why Ali wanted to go electric on this one. However, it can't beat the sound of his F7 Tigercat, powered by two Moki 150cc radials!
I only saw it make three flights that day and then it was taken away by the customer, so not really sure what its performance was. Endurance was only about 7 minutes from memory, with something like a 250 AH speed controller.
Thank you for all the work you did to show this historic airfield. Hopefully there will be a demand for a community airfield. Generally the number of airfields keeps decreasing.
Just finished reading 'luck of the draw', a book by Frank Murphy, a navigator with the 100BG who flew from Thorpe Abbotts and was shot down in October 1943. Excellent read, would definitely recommend.
Back in the 1990s, I wrote to several veterans about B-17 "Hang The Expense" and also met several guys at the Thorpe Abbotts reunions. The stories they told would have made hollywood films look tame! Amazing guys.
@@century_bombers we must be getting conflicting info, according to Harry Crosby’s accounts in ‘Wing and a prayer’ he’d got up to Hang the Expense 7. Looking in the back of the Century Bombers book, I could only see Hang The Expense 1 and 3 listed. Confusing isn’t it?
Pleased they have a long lasting memorial to the Bloody 100th bomb group even the 100ths mascot got killed wasn't it a Donkey 🐴 if memory serves me right it's a long time ago when I read about the Bloody 100th unluckyest Bomb group in the 8th airforce R.I.P to all that was lost in the 100th bomb 💣 group 🤝🫶👏🤲
The 100th didn't have the largest loss rate in the 8th Air Force ( I think that was the 91st BG ), but the 100th did have several single missions, with particularly heavy loss rates.
@@century_bombers I didn't realise that I know the 8th airforce bomber group had terrible heavy losses across all of there groups especially before long range fighter escorts thank you 🤝🙏
😀😀😀 great B17 - i admire u for rebuilding and getting it certified for display again - soooo much work and effort!!!! failsafe - whats so safe or no fail about it causing a big smash!!!!!!!??? had u bin a yank back in 44 - it DOVE into the ground!!😁😆😁
Thanks. The failsafe is designed to crash the model as soon as possible after signal loss, to prevent a fly-away, where the aircraft could cause greater damage to a 3rd party. In the UK, any model over 5Kg needed a failsafe.
Thanks. This railway went to the customer around Spring 2016 and I haven't built any more railway models since. I'd like to do a small US layout for myself, but currently have too many other jobs with both my military vehicle fleet to look after and house and garden projects.
