South Yorkshire Air Museum

[Hooli]

I went to Elvington yesterday with Mrs Hooli & enjoyed the afternoon. They've got some good stuff there which we've taken some poor pics of.

[rhinochopig]

SOUTH Yorkshire. BLOODY SOUTH YORKSHIRE. GET OUT!!!!! It's in the NORTH



Nice pics though. Did you cram in a few laps of the circuit?

[Eric Mc]

Really nust get there someday.

The Halifax looks really awesome.

[rhinochopig]

Eric Mc said:

Really nust get there someday.

The Halifax looks really awesome.

Take your Caterham Eric, and do a TD at the same time. Although abrasive, it is one of the few spots where you really can drive your car way beyond its and your limits without fear of collecting some armco.

[staples230uk]

rhinochopig said:

SOUTH Yorkshire. BLOODY SOUTH YORKSHIRE. GET OUT!!!!! It's in the NORTH



Nice pics though. Did you cram in a few laps of the circuit?

+1

Lol, yeah spent many years of my youth there. Nice to see they have a Nimrod in. Thanks for posting!

[rhinochopig]

Anyone know why the Halifax was called Friday the 13th? I always thought bomber crews were a very superstitious bunch. Given this it seems an odd choice of name.

[Hooli]

rhinochopig said:

SOUTH Yorkshire. BLOODY SOUTH YORKSHIRE. GET OUT!!!!! It's in the NORTH



Nice pics though. Did you cram in a few laps of the circuit?

Oops


Nah we didn't do circuits even though we took the bikes to get there.


Eric, The Halifax is built from bits. IIRC part of the fuselage is from a crash site in Yorkshire & the wings came from Catterick? but it's painted as the most famous Halifax that flew from Elvington.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Hooli said:

: IIRC part of the fuselage is from a crash site in Yorkshire & the wings came from Catterick?

The wings are from a Hastings.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

rhinochopig said:

Anyone know why the Halifax was called Friday the 13th? I always thought bomber crews were a very superstitious bunch. Given this it seems an odd choice of name.

Reverse psychology. The a/c had several 'fate tempting' markings including: "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

[Eric Mc]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

rhinochopig said:

Anyone know why the Halifax was called Friday the 13th? I always thought bomber crews were a very superstitious bunch. Given this it seems an odd choice of name.

Reverse psychology. The a/c had several 'fate tempting' markings including: "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

Hi G15. You've been missing for a while.

The "Halifaz" is a bit of a "bitsa" but they've done a good job.

I remember seeing the central fuselage section when it was in store at the Skyfame Museum, Staverton in 1976.

[Hooli]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Hooli said:

: IIRC part of the fuselage is from a crash site in Yorkshire & the wings came from Catterick?

The wings are from a Hastings.

I was too lazy to walk across the room to the guide book & see if it had any details.

[Eric Mc]

The Hastings transport derived a lot of its structure from work carried out on teh Halifax so it's not a bad compromise.

[richw_82]

As I understand it-

New build forward fuselage, middle portion is from a crash site on the Isle of Lewis, wings are from the Hastings that was on the Catterick fire dump (though there was a pair found still boxed which are sat on a Queen Mary trailer up at Elvington somewhere..). Engines came courtesy of the French, being used on the Nord Noratlas, and the tailplane was built by some of British Aerospace's apprentices.

As impressive as the Halifax is, the Mosquito of Tony Agar's impresses me more given what he started with and the fact that it is being rebuilt to ground run!

Regards,

Rich

[HoHoHo]

I'm amazed at the size and angle of flaps on the Nimrod (much lik a DC10 from memory)

I guess those wings weren't very efficient at low speed then?

[Hooli]

richw_82 said:

As impressive as the Halifax is, the Mosquito of Tony Agar's impresses me more given what he started with and the fact that it is being rebuilt to ground run!

If that is the one at the same place I didn't get any decent pics of it, partly because of how close to the back wall of the hanger it's stood but mostly because it's in bits with the engines on a wheelie trolley under a wing & so forth.