pylon500 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 And if you look real careful, you'll realise it's a SLEEVE VALVE engine, not overhead valve. For those unfamiliar, the Centuarus is best described as a flat 12 double! Yep, TWO flat TWELVE engines, merged together to create a twenty four cylinder, twin crankshaft monster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunder Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Sabre.....Arthur..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon500 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Sabre.....Arthur..... Yep, my bad. Confused myself talking about sleeve valves, and started thinking Bristol instead of Napier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I seen that at Bacchus Marsh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfly Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 A severed head - Mareeba: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylon500 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Interesting, they look like pictures of instruments. Was this used for a movie set maybe...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Not exactly abandoned, but some good photos and video of Connie Edwards' barn full of warbirds: http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2015/09/edwards-warbirds-texas-barn-spitfire-messerschmitt-battle-of-britain/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coltri Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Actually it gets worse, during a heavy snowstorm the Buran hangar collapsed, killing some workers and destroying the Buran.[ATTACH=full]37712[/ATTACH] Full story here; http://www.buran-energia.com/bourane-buran/bourane-fin.php There is a surviving Buran in a German Technic Museum at Speyer, I saw it in August 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunder Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Interesting, they look like pictures of instruments.Was this used for a movie set maybe...? I didn't catch on to that. I just thought it strange they hadn't been pinched...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfly Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Yeah, I'm pretty sure they were real instruments but I do agree, even the spider webs have a look of set-dressing about them. Anyway, I'd like to know its story; that sadly detached nose section. Like, what it's from and what's it doing there. I presume it'll be part of a future exhibition maybe along with Oklahoma Gal also standing in the grass there, outside the little aviation museum at Mareeba (closed when I passed by, about a year ago). BTW I also saw a lovely looking Spit-replica take-off from the ramp nearby (in anything but a state-of-abandon). I guess there are those among us who know stuff about all of these a/c. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff13 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Oklahoma Girl is no longer at Mareeba. She is now a Caboolture and is in the process of restoration. The severed head came with her. Both engines now start and run and work is progressing. In her spare time she plays Jaws with smaller aircraft. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 There is a surviving Buran in a German Technic Museum at Speyer, I saw it in August 2015 I think that's the same one that was in Sydney for a few years. Cheers, Willie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Abandoned Mirage-111 at Châteaudun Air Base. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Looks like a dead wombat, silly grin and feet in the air. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 F-104 at an Italian scrapyard. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Sukhoi Su-15, Ugolny Airport. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cscotthendry Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 A bit more info about the original batch of pics posted in this thread. Some of them were taken by a guy named Deitmar Eckell and went into a book that he published through crowd funding, titled Happy End. The photos in Deitmar's book are all of aircraft that crashed in remote places, yet all on board survived, hence the name "Happy End". http://dietmareckell.com/?splash=1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Abandoned at Bundy. This J230 was ordered & paid for sometime prior to 2010 when I first saw it, but never collected. It did spend some time in the back of the LAME's hangar but has been out in the weather for some time now. This photo flatters it's condition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA. Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 The owner is ill, it says so on the side. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Folland Gnat at Bournemouth. Technically not abandoned, but saved fron the scrapyard in a dismantled state. Aparently it moved on from the museum grounds in 2008, whereabouts unknown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA. Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Notice the registration. Tokyo Disney. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Here's a Cessna 310Q, former rego VH-FYZ, owned by Goldfields Air Services, that crash-landed in the Great Victoria Desert in 1993. The flight was originally planned between the Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara in the Great Victoria Desert, to Warburton. The crash site is in the Gibson Desert. https://thelandy.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/dsc_4469.jpg The crash cause was fuel starvation because the pilot didn't fully understand the complex fuel valving and pumping system setup between the main and auxiliary tanks. Pilot and all pax survived the crash landing, but all with back injuries. The engines and other useful accessories were stripped out of the wreck by GAS, and the frame was abandoned. The wreck is accessible from the Connie Sue Highway, if you feel like driving the 680kms of this 4WD-only, "Highway", between Warburton and Rawlinna. Here's the ATSB report ... https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/4432781/ASOR199300002.PDF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 Article, and a video, here: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/sad-harrier-jump-jetgraveyard.html?src=fba&type=int&page=who Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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