Video 176 Restoration of Lancaster NX611 Year 6. Splitting of the Lancaster rear fuselage.
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- Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre engineers split the Lancaster rear fuselage ready to fit into the Jig and restore to airworthy condition. Keith working on the 3 leading edge RIBS of the French wing.
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Everyone playing with the big toy and Keith, soldiering on, getting on with the fiddly bits. Good man!
Cheers CT68.
Hi Neville . Well done John for remembering those hidden bolts ! Ànd Keith always marches on regardless .. Thanks Neville .
Cheers John.
That modular construction method was very clever!
Thin material put together in the right shape riveted or welded = very strong structure, cheers mate.
Wow, great to see something you don't see everyday of the week. Thank you Neville!! 👍👍
Cheers David.
Thank you Neville, an historic moment i think seeing the aft fuse separated.
Cheers William.
Thanks Neville That inside seperation shot was great
Cheers Stu.
Mix and match BIG Lancaster components. Brilliant Neville!
Cheers Michael.
Thank you. I hope you and all the EK staff have a great holiday.
Cheers Peter, Happy New Year.
Thanks Neville.... great signs of progress !
Cheers Adrian.
Thanks for showing the "split" Neville. Next step. making a Lincolnshire/Yorkshire hybrid 😂
Cheers James.
Thank you Neville and the team. Have a good Christmas........... :-)
Cheers Nofider1 , Happy New Year.
I'm looking forward to seeing Just Jane sporting the Doncaster rear fuselage and the first French wing - and then getting into the differences between restoration to taxiing standards and full airworthy status.
Thanks Neville.
Cheers Marcus
Good job somebody remembered those 8 bolts! Great job very interesting.
Cheers John.
Some real progress in this video bro it made a really good update too. Safe travels
Cheers Ken.
Thanks for another great year of videos of this restoration. It was a pleasure seeing the aircraft this year running before the rear fuse was removed.
Cheers Brenden.
Fantastic insight yet again.. it’s great what you’re capturing.. no photo or newsletter could contain what you show us in quarter an hour.
Have a great Christmas!
Cheers Andy.
Very interesting watching craftsmen at work, thank you.
Cheers John.
Great Video Neville. First of the major mildsones soon to start with the rear fueselage to airworty status. And of course the French wing completion and fitting yet to come. All inspiring stuff! Thank you Neville,
Cheers John.
Beautiful !
Cheers HH.
Thanks as always. Neville.
Cheers Hugh.
Right place at the right time Neville! Well done!
Cheers Kevin.
Thanks Neville for your time and consideration top job top team awesome 🇬🇧🇨🇦 have a great Christmas and a happy new year God bless you all 🙏🕊️
Happy New Year Phil.
Thanks, Nev.
Cheers Malcolm.
Good on you Neville. Can't wait until next exciting episode. From Aussie
Cheers Scott.
Fantastic! I think it's still unbelievable that the whole tail section hangs on those two flanges/formers, rather amazing. Thanks Neville, great footage of splitting the atom.. uhhm fuselage ;)
Cheers Marc3471.
Thanks Neville. Really good to see the whole rear fuselage section seperated like that. Good job that John remembered where those hidden bolts were. Wow the next phase of the restoration is now full steam ahead. What a great team they are there at East Kirkby. They are doing us proud in the level of work that they keep on delivering time and again. When you look at how many people worked on the Lancs during the war days and how such a small team that they have at the Centre to get to where they are now is astounding. Well done boys. Cheers to you as always Neville for another great update. Here's wishing you and your family a very Happy Christmas mate. Best wishes.👍
Cheers Andy .Happy New Year.
This is great stuff. I get the constant feeling, that certain very powerful figures don't want us to be proud of, not just the above, but anything British at all and would not just abolish them completely if they could, but totally expunge them from history. I'm sure many people out there quietly have the same suspicions as me.
Congrats Neville, much improved audio.
Keep it going.
Thank you Richard.
Fascinating! What an incredible endeavour. Neville, if this is your last video for the year, thank you for a magnificent effort in chronicling this restoration, and have a very Merry Christmas.
Cheers John.
Thank you Neville and apprentice, an excellent video and of course A Merry Christmas to you all…
Cheers Sam ,Happy New Year.
Excellent filming. I hope you and the team at E Kirkby get a rest over Christmas. All the best!!
Cheers Simon.
Excellent Nev, bit of a milestone, restoration well on now.👌
Cheers Alan.
Very interesting.....lets hope the Doncaster fuselage fits on OK, but I guess that has already been checked!
No not yet Mikey, it fitted into the jig alright.
someone will have to update the assembly/disassembly instructions to mention the location of those hidden 8 bolts, or faiiling that get the sharpie markers out and write on the skins "And these ones" with an arrow to where they are. John might not be arround next time.
Surely this will be recorded in the aircraft documentation including a check list particularly as it's to be an airworthy aircraft eventually. Hopefully the hidden 8 bolts didn't experience any stress even though fuselage wasn't horizontal!
I'm sure the Centre will document this problem. Cheers Andrew.
Another excellent update Neville! Looking forward to seeing more videos next year. All the best for the festive season!
Happy New Year Charles.
Thanks Neville, exciting stuff! Keith is cracking on with the wing reconstruction, and it’s nice the see the next phase of the operation start!
Cheers Paul.
really enjoying these videos Neville , very interesting indeed 👍😊
Cheers Davide.
What a great team of chaps and an expert videographer. Hope you all have a great Christmas and a healthy new year. Many Thanks, Nev for producing these superb video's.
Cheers Tez. happy New Year.
Well done!!
Congratulations, thats a bit of a mile stone.
Cheers Maurice.
Thanks Nev, another great vid, Do the CAA have to monitor the "parting of such a large structure" or do they just monitor the Aircraft at random intervals
Hi Steve, "monitor at random intervals". the Centre has 3 CAA retested engineers who can sign off work done.
Neville, how did you come to start doing these videos and getting so close to the engineers? Hope you have a lovely Christmas and thanks for the videos!
Hi Peter. How did I get started, not sure Peter I just drifted into it. Just visited the Centre a few years back took a video put on you tube that was the start. I started taking video of the work force ,Brad the youngest of the engineers said the lads like them, so I started to put question to them about the work they were doing and videoed them. I seem to get on well with all of them.
@@nevillewheeldon1693 Thank You for that reply, Neville! If it were a tv documentary, it wouldn’t be nearly as natural, as human, Or as interesting!!
Looks like no sealant between fuselage sections just painted surfaces. Do these two sections have bonding cables between them once reattached to maintain electrical continuity to prevent static build up and easy flow in case of lightning strikes?
Spen the electronics engineer, if I remember right Bonding cables should be all over the aircraft. I also asked Spen do they use the body as an earth. answer NO they use a return earth cable .
When its finished, how much of it will be from the original plane?
Why did they split the fuselage?
Hi Outlawflyer78, so they can fit the fuselage they just restored to taxying standard and then work on JJ rear fuselage to bring it up to airworthy, then swop them back.
I've looked online, and can't find a definition for "French wing". Can someone tell me what, exactly, is the "French wing"?
The gang at East Kirkby have done a deal with a French restoration group to borrow the wings of their Lancaster, get them restored to taxi standards, so that Just Jane can keep taxiiing while her own wings are restored to airworthy status.
@@marcushassall8378 I see, thank you very much!
Time to break out the WD-40 😂
And a Big hammer.
Why did they split the fuselage? It looked in good shape to me
They will replace Just Jane's rear fuselage with the section from another Lancaster (from Doncaster air museum), so that she can keep taxiiing in 2023 while her own rear fuselage section is brought up to airworthy standards.
@@marcushassall8378 thank you I was wondering why
Hi Sydney, the main course for most of the work is the corroding Magnesium alloy rivets so all rivets have to be drill out and replaced