106 inch Hawker typhoon

[chris willis]

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[Mike Booth]

Nice, very nice.

[Mike Booth]

Wow Neil does some fab stuff with that camera.
20 years ago the magazines were devoid of decent flying shots, now look at it.
Great.

[stewart clifford]

You're not wrong there Chocky and it's good to see something good at the top of the project list.

[Mike Booth]

Chris i am thinking of knocking up something from a couple of old fence panels, plugging in 30 k's worth of batteries and posting 28 pages on the worlds greatest flying plank.

[stuart cotgrove]

Chris i am thinking of knocking up something from a couple of old fence panels, plugging in 30 k's worth of batteries and posting 28 pages on the worlds greatest flying plank.

Well, I would fall for that...

[chris willis]

Well anybody who came to Rougham may have seen my Tiffy flight on the saturday. near the end of my first and only slot the crank broke in flight leaving me with a dead stick into about 20mph wind, luckily she came down safely and the spinner, backplate and flywheel were retrieved later, in the pics below you can see the broken part, it wasn't a problem with the engine, my theory was that i had purchased this second hand and it had a slight bent spindle which had caused earlier problems with large spun ally spinners, but with the correct shape fibreglass ones it all appeared o.k. on the break it was evident that it had been split (discolouration) for a while on part of it, so i guess it had been bent from a crash and hammered straightish again, the moral is if you dont know the history then buy new, this could have cost me my model, the engine is now rebuilt and ready to go back in next week Chris

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[Mike Booth]

Wow no time wasted there Chris.
You did well, tricky conditions but she came back home.
Mike.

[Jon Horne]

Hi Chris
Sounds like you did well to get her back safely - well done. I told you not to use that old motor out of your BSA Bantam! After all the cranks are only made of chromed lead!
From the pics it looks like you took it apart on the kitchen worktop........just like you did with the Bantam when you were younger I guess.
Hope to see you soon.
Jon

[stewart clifford]

He still rides that old Bantam everyday

[Mike Booth]

And to think that piston is bigger than the Fantic's and Fizzy's we used to scream around on back in the day.

[chris willis]

Well look at what i aquired today, a Hens tooth

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[stewart clifford]

Very nice find Willy, good nick too. Where's that come from? if it really was from a hen I'd suggest you keep well clear of him coz he's big and he's not going to be happy you've got his tooth.

[chris willis]

Top secter Fighter Boy might dig some more up tomorrow

[stuart cotgrove]

Yeah, come Sheepster, then you can join the Tiffie Squadron.
I must admit, I am enjoying flying mine more and more.

Bonzey

Tiffy arrived last week and the builkd is well on it's way now...

[Phil Clark]

Thems look kind a familiar......1/5 scale as well

[Mike Booth]

Thats the exhaust manifold from a Fantic Caballero.....no I mean a Napier Sabre.

[stuart cotgrove]

Thats the exhaust manifold from a Fantic Caballero.....no I mean a Napier Sabre.

Ah memories,,,,,,,,,,

[chris willis]

Mine was a Fizzy but always fancied a Malaguti Monte

[chris willis]

An amazing story here of the Rev George Wood, who flew Whirlwinds on German ship attacks, known as the Channel Dash. After getting hit by flack his aeroplane went into a spin, and he couldn't get the canopy open, his words were Oh God help me and he did. Resistance were watching through Binoculars as the aircraft exploded into many parts, then they saw the puff of a chute just above the ground, the Germans drove up to the wreckage, saw the bits everywhere and drove off, George awoke and found himself laying in a ploughed field, he then crawled into a hedge and hid, reconisance came and found him, at this time they were sailing 12 fishing boats in and out of the harbour at night, 12 counted out and 12 counted in each night, they built a black shaddow fishing boat which went out along side one of the fishing boats as a silhoette, George was in this and carried on sailing to Dover where he returned home and then went on to serve in Typhoons.
Amazing.

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Left to right
Rusty Townsend 175 sqn. Jack Hodges 174 sqn. Gordon Tripp Tempest 11 Test Pilot. Bryan Stone. Ground crew (Erk). Rev George Wood 263 sqn. Ron. A friend of association ( Ex Shackleton Pilot) Ken Kneen 175 sqn. John Shellard 263 sqn. Frank Wheeler 174 sqn. Lower row. Myself, Tiffie the Association Mascot, and Ken Rimmel to the right who founded the Association, flew on Vulcan's.

A couple more turned up late but made lunch.
A great day which i will never forget.
Chris