
derekliston
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About derekliston
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- Birthday 02/08/1947
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Zenith CH701
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Warwick Queensland
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Australia
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If Britain had done that with every one of a kind single example aircraft they built, the country wouldn’t have enough museum space to house them! Tragedy, true, but RAF Cosford isn’t a bad attempt at saving unique machines.
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derekliston started following Short Empire Flying Boat and Bristol Brabazon
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It must have flown over Edinburgh at some stage since I remember my Mother taking me out to the street to see it fly over. I was born in 1947 so must have been very young if it was broken up in 1953!
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ABG which was Coriolanus and the last one to be broken up, is now the registration on my Zenith CH701. People ask me why I don’t change over to a recreational reg. But as a lifelong aviation nutter why would I?
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derekliston started following Countersinking aluminium skin and Light plane crash, Serpentine airfield, near Perth, WA.
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I actually realised that after I posted, but it is very reminiscent!
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Looks like a demoiselle! Was it Santos Dumont?
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Don’t countersink thin skins, use a dimpling tool. Several types available but the one I found most useful was from Aircraft Spruce, it utilises a male and a female die and has a 1/8” diameter nail through the middle and is operated with a set of pop rivet pliers. I also have a pair of dimpling anvils for a hand rivet squeezer but that is limiting for distance from edge. If in fact you need to countersink thicker material, buy a countersink tool specific to aircraft rivets because of the countersink angle. If dimpling you need to dimple both the skin and the rib flange behind it! I hope this h
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derekliston started following Fairey Rotodyne - VTOL Passenger Transport
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Fairey Rotodyne - VTOL Passenger Transport
derekliston commented on old man emu's aircraft in Rotorcraft
I had the Airfix 1/72 model. Another example of brilliant British aero-engineering which came to nothing. I believe one problem for city centre work was that it was incredibly noisy with the rotors under power. -
Didn’t really think so, but it was the closest thing I could find!
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Keleher Lark?
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Without wishing to cause too much thread drift I have a story about Beagle. As a young know it all apprentice I visited Rearsby in the very early days of Beagle. I was actually doing an aircraft design course at Loughborough University ( I like telling people that, but it was actually a short course for amateurs held at the University over an Easter weekend!) Anyway, part of it was a visit to Beagle and I with all my knowledge told them that the Pup, with all it’s stretch formed skins, dissimilar material welding and complex oleo style main undercarriage was too complex to be a success. Stran
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Interesting, another dog! Shame though, it was a pretty aeroplane!
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Do you ever wonder if Beagle failed because they were all dogs, literally, Terrier, Airedale, Pup and Bulldog? I don’t remember if the twins had names, only remember their numbers!
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I used to help service one back around 1965 in Edinburgh. Quite a luxurious machine although typical early Beagle, probably heavy for what was the British equivalent of a C172. Had an interesting, supposedly thrust augmenter exhaust system.
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derekliston started following Guess This Aircraft ?
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Possibly wrong but looks a lot like a Beagle Airedale?