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Strange Gear, pt 4 - Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG (1/1)
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Strange Gear, pt 4 - Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG (1/1)
In message , Mitchell
Holman writes [ A UUEncoded file (Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG) was included here. ] More popularly known as the Flying Bedstead. Two R-R Nenes for lift and puffer jets for directional control. This picture shows the second rig, XK426, which flew on 12 November 1956 but crashed on 27 November 1957 on a tethered flight after hitting the gantry and killing the pilot, Wg Cdr H G F Larson. The surviving rig, XJ314, flew on 9 July 1953 tethered and on 3 August 1954 free. It completed 224 tethered and 16 free flights by December 1954. It is now in the Science Museum in London. (information from Vic Flintham's website, http://www.vicflintham.co.uk/) -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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Strange Gear, pt 4 - Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG (1/1)
and there is even a pub with the name close to Hucknall airfield where it
all happened. In fact that reminds me did anyone see the film about the German who escaped from Canada into USA , he tried to steal a hurricane from Hucknall in the film , some good footage of Hucknall Mike "Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... In message , Mitchell Holman writes [ A UUEncoded file (Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG) was included here. ] More popularly known as the Flying Bedstead. Two R-R Nenes for lift and puffer jets for directional control. This picture shows the second rig, XK426, which flew on 12 November 1956 but crashed on 27 November 1957 on a tethered flight after hitting the gantry and killing the pilot, Wg Cdr H G F Larson. The surviving rig, XJ314, flew on 9 July 1953 tethered and on 3 August 1954 free. It completed 224 tethered and 16 free flights by December 1954. It is now in the Science Museum in London. (information from Vic Flintham's website, http://www.vicflintham.co.uk/) -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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Strange Gear, pt 4 - Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG (1/1)
In message n9BZn.103793$We4.21428@hurricane, flybywire
writes and there is even a pub with the name close to Hucknall airfield where it all happened. In fact that reminds me did anyone see the film about the German who escaped from Canada into USA , he tried to steal a hurricane from Hucknall in the film , some good footage of Hucknall "The One That Got Away", with Hardy Kruger as Franz von Werra. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050803/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One...Got_Away_(film) Mike "Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... In message , Mitchell Holman writes [ A UUEncoded file (Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG) was included here. ] More popularly known as the Flying Bedstead. Two R-R Nenes for lift and puffer jets for directional control. This picture shows the second rig, XK426, which flew on 12 November 1956 but crashed on 27 November 1957 on a tethered flight after hitting the gantry and killing the pilot, Wg Cdr H G F Larson. The surviving rig, XJ314, flew on 9 July 1953 tethered and on 3 August 1954 free. It completed 224 tethered and 16 free flights by December 1954. It is now in the Science Museum in London. (information from Vic Flintham's website, http://www.vicflintham.co.uk/) -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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Strange Gear, pt 4 - Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG (1/1)
On 07/07/2010 18:01, Peter Twydell wrote:
In message , Mitchell Holman writes [ A UUEncoded file (Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG) was included here. ] More popularly known as the Flying Bedstead. Two R-R Nenes for lift and puffer jets for directional control. This picture shows the second rig, XK426, which flew on 12 November 1956 but crashed on 27 November 1957 on a tethered flight after hitting the gantry and killing the pilot, Wg Cdr H G F Larson. The surviving rig, XJ314, flew on 9 July 1953 tethered and on 3 August 1954 free. It completed 224 tethered and 16 free flights by December 1954. It is now in the Science Museum in London. (information from Vic Flintham's website, http://www.vicflintham.co.uk/) Seen here, in all its glory. -- Moving things in still pictures FastStone - Infinitely Flexible Photographic Fixing - For Free! www.FastStone.org |
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Strange Gear, pt 4 - Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG (1/1)
thats it
"Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... In message n9BZn.103793$We4.21428@hurricane, flybywire writes and there is even a pub with the name close to Hucknall airfield where it all happened. In fact that reminds me did anyone see the film about the German who escaped from Canada into USA , he tried to steal a hurricane from Hucknall in the film , some good footage of Hucknall "The One That Got Away", with Hardy Kruger as Franz von Werra. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050803/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One...Got_Away_(film) Mike "Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... In message , Mitchell Holman writes [ A UUEncoded file (Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig.JPG) was included here. ] More popularly known as the Flying Bedstead. Two R-R Nenes for lift and puffer jets for directional control. This picture shows the second rig, XK426, which flew on 12 November 1956 but crashed on 27 November 1957 on a tethered flight after hitting the gantry and killing the pilot, Wg Cdr H G F Larson. The surviving rig, XJ314, flew on 9 July 1953 tethered and on 3 August 1954 free. It completed 224 tethered and 16 free flights by December 1954. It is now in the Science Museum in London. (information from Vic Flintham's website, http://www.vicflintham.co.uk/) -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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