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Seymour Tw@tt
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Great shame when that last airworthy one crashed a few years ago (quite a few years ago if I remember....)
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Great shame when that last airworthy one crashed a few years ago (quite a few years ago if I remember....)
They had just finished restoring one a Saints when they closed the museum.
I have no idea where it went, but the guys reckoned it could have flown but would have cost to much to sort out the paperwork.
Off Topic My Dads first job as an A/C out of training, replacing the wing on a Mossie. They put him with an old civvy carpenter, sawed off the old one with a rip saw then glued on the replacement !
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Off Topic Riggers aircraft got the name from the old biplane days of WW1. The story goes that as aircraft were made of wood and canvas with wire cables or struts between upper and lower mainplanes they all flew differently so the mainplanes had to be rigged by altering the lengths of cable or strut to achieve an acceptable flying characteristic. The skill of Tin bashing wasn't needed until the advent of metal monoplanes Off Topic
Not quite true, most WWI aircraft that had tractor engines (the term for an aircraft with the prop at the front pulling the aircraft forward), had metal Cowlings around the engine. Therefore the riggers of the day had to have some metalworking skills. Likewise for a large number of interwar fighters and bombers had metal structure of some descripition (in the case of the late Hawker biplanes, the main structure of the fuselarge was a metal frame, covered by wooden formers and stringers and covered with doped fabric, which was how the Hurricane was also built. As for the rigging, it was not only the wings that had cables on them, in most cases a lot of the fuselarge, tail and undercarrige structure was braced with wire as well (under thre fabric). The major parts of the Mossie airframe structure were not all made of wood, quite a lot of metal was used on the wing around the area of the engines.
Great shame when that last airworthy one crashed a few years ago (quite a few years ago if I remember....)
late 1996 if memory serves, both crew were killed when the Mossie T3 operated by BAe Heritage crashed at an airshow up north.