Amazing how (revelatively) flat the tailplane rib goes just with the hammering. Amazing work, I know if I tried it would end up a crumpled mess 🙄 Thanks for another great update Neville
I was a Engineering Technician Airframe (Rigger) in the RAF for 24 years and spent a number of years in the Airframe repair side of the trade, seeing the amount of work that has and still is being carried out brings back some great memories from that time, it also reminds me of skills that I had forgotten about, especially trying to make new parts that were either no longer available to order from the Supply Chain (stackers), or if possible making them myself, not quite to the complexity of some of these components but still very tricky, I have a huge amount of respect to this whole team and their skills, and I want to say a huge thanks to you all for restoring and rescuing such an icon of our military aviation, without people like yourselves it wouldn’t be possible to do and would mean the death of such a beautiful aircraft. As a side note, and my only claim to fame, My grandfather was an apprentice with A. V Roe before WWII and he was part of the team that was responsible for modifying the 617 Squadron Lancasters used in the famous attack with “bouncing bombs” on the dam’s in the Ruhr Valley. I also have his apprenticeship study manuals that he passed down to me, and I am proud to say came in very handy during my training to become a Technician in the RAF, specifically for the art of sheet metal shaping and forming. I can’t wait until the day that god and the powers that be declare her airworthy, but if she is not able to fly, just hearing her roar to life and at least carry out fast taxi runs would please this older man. Thanks again. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴 Lest We Forget. Per Ardua ad Astra.
With the David Brown tug tractor engine being rebuilt to such a high quality its suprised me that new piston rings haven't been fitted.I've been an engine rebuilder for the last 45yrs and I'd never put an engine back together without either honing and reringing or reboring and fitting new oversize pistons and rings,utterly pointless going to all that effort and not doing it properly.
