Episode 1 - The Project and Beginnings of the Bomb Bay
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- A brief history of the Short Stirling Aircraft and our Project to recreate the forward fuselage of a Stirling.
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Glad I found this channel. You're doing something really great here.
I just wish there was at least one complete Stirling somewhere in the world...
Thankyou for your very educational video. It's very helpful to have this level of detail.
My Grandfather was ground crew on 149 Squadron and adored the Stirling such that he had little interest in any of the surviving Lancasters we ever took him to see! I still own a brass Stirling that he made, which he mounted on the Bakelite protective cap that went on the front of a Hercules prop shaft. I think it is vital that we get a Stirling back in some form- good luck with the project!
Thank you Mike!!!
This has to be a 'must watch' series of video episodes concerning the build of the Stirling nose section. I wish you well with the project and I know there has already been a mountain of work undertaken just to get at this stage of the build.
Thank you!!!
Thanks for starting this great project on an iconic aircraft. Cannot believe how many we scrapped and just forgot. No plans even!
Thank you for starting this TH-cam station. It is a privilege to be able to follow along with your impressive project. Well done. Regards Wayne (SYD Australia).
Thank you Wayne!!!
It would be interesting to contact Deelen Aircraft museum in the Netherlands. They have a fairly intact Stirling mid fuselage without bombbay. That would fit together...see their website and pictures posted via google maps. Good work done!
Great timing, friend, ive just built a large scale stirling from thin sheet cardboard, turned out so heavy , i had to make the landing gear assembly out of sticks from outside. The turrets turn, guns pivot, props spin. Let me know if youd like some pix. 👍👍👍
I would like to see them if thats alright?
A mark free. Excellent.
Thanks for starting the TH-cam channel and explaining the project.
As I have made some parts for you previously I am still available to make some more parts for you if and when needed.
Hi Alan, thanks for getting back in touch. If you can let us know what you have we'd be very interested
John
@@johnlathwell7667 WM18 Vertical Mill & Chester Crusader lathe. I am an ex Shorts Belfast apprentice, Now retired so a bit of time on my hands.
Thanks Alan, think Andy P might be in touch😊
What a beast of an aircraft
Often much maligned when you read details about the Stirling in the aviation books but views not always shared by aircrew accounts who speak very fondly of its attributes.
Cannot understand why at the end of the Second World War,an example of each significant RAF aircraft wasn’t saved.I grew up in Cambridgeshire very close to Oakington where Stirlings carried the RAF bomber commands attack to Nazi Germany early in the war.
Wishing you every success with your excellent project which I am sure will be extremely impressive….when it’s completed,why not create the rest! Sitting in that cockpit on the ground must have been like having your office on the top floor of a large building.
All the best
Stuart
Thanks Stuart! Just to let you know a good couple of photographs used in this video are from RAF Oakington.
Brilliant
Have a very GOOD luck with this huge project 👍🇬🇧
In case the reader hasn't noticed the OP is interviewed briefly in video 203 from East Kirkby, he's one of NX611's technicians. I think that there's several bits of Stirlings around the world and probably some individuals with the authority to pull a few of them together long term. But Jacob's stock is undoubtably improved through his association with a proven organisation irrespective that it's a different aircraft. He remarked of his intention to produce subsequent videos.
Good video Jacob...good to meet you and the others at East Kirkby and the very best to you and your Stirling team. I shall follow with interest.
Wonderful stuff!
I have subscribed to the channel 👍🏽
A very interesting video Jacob.Can,t wait for your next one mate.
About time, l hope we have regular updates as this is a really interesting project, best wishes with the project 😊
Great video Jacob. Looking forward to watching more of these in the future. Good work.
Very interesting Jacob well done, good luck with this project.
Thank you Neville your videos are definitely the inspiration for documenting the project!!
Just fantastic to see the first steps in a long and wonderful journey.
I look forward to seeing more of your project! Cheers!
Hello Jacob saw you on Neville’s channel and have now subscribed looking forward to following your progress
Yeah all the best with this project. Look forward to see it progress.
I love this - can’t wait for more !
Brilliant video Jacob
Very nice project, happy I found you!
A possible idea to get funds is use your cad data and make a 3d printable model, or make a 3d printed kit so people can build along with you as you go.
Keep up the great work!
My dream was always to see a Lanc, Halifax and Stirling flying in formation. Probably not in my lifetime sadly.
RC models are getting bigger and bigger. I strikes me that a half scale model of some aircraft can't be far away.
@@chrisst8922 Maybe, though there was a real half scale Stirling!!
For years I was troubled by the thought process's behind the naming of the BBMF, as at its inception it only had 1 airworthy Spitfire 1 Lancaster and a Dakota ! .....a bit of a misnomer really since A/ in 1940 the Lancasters unfortunate forebear the Manchester didnt even pass its acceptance trials by 207 Squadron till the end of December 1940 - three months after the BB had ended and only entered operational deployment in January 1941 the same time as the Stirling, with its uprated and corrected version the almighty Lanc not being introduced into operational service until February 1942,
and B/ try as I might I cannot find ANY reference anywhere to ANY Manchester or Stirling being deployed tactically in the hard won aerial defence of these Islands, Battles and Defiants yes at a push, but Manchesters and Stirlings no,
not to take anything away from the Manchesters or Stirlings or all the brave crews who fought and tragically died operating them but they would have been about as useful in an aerial defence role as a chocolate fireguard. The BBMF has expanded over the years to its present compliment of half a dozen or so Spitfires of various marks, several Hurricanes, and half a dozen other types various, and in my humble opinion it should be reconfigured to fly ONLY operational types that actually took part in the Battle itself, with a far bigger seperate flight containing every other air worthy type that actually flew whether it actually saw action during the whole conflict or not.....I think it could possibly save quite an amount of Square pegs from being destroyed simply for not fitting neatly into round operational holes
@@atilllathehun1212 Yes you are right. It was called the Short S36....a half scale flying model of the type constructed to prove the viability of the airframe....which was a usuall practice for Shorts.....sadly though it was scrapped after a take off accident in February 1944
@@usernamesreprise4068 = You really DON'T remotely have a clue what you're talking about Re : 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙙 1 𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 1 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝘿𝙖𝙠𝙤𝙩𝙖 = You're wrong !!
Hawker Hurricane LF.363 was THE a/c that 'kicked-off' the BBMF even if it wasn't named as such, officially = Why don't YOU actually mention LF.363, given it actually WAS "numero uno" in the flight (having been donated)
They THEN went on to acquire a Spitifre (I can't remember which one), purely as a match for the already donated Hawker Hurricane LF.363 which once again (to mention) was THE a/c that started the BBMF
The Lancaster (PA.474) wasn't even airworthy (again) until 1971
I'm probably older than you, as it first flew over my head in 1972
(over my school playing fields) painted up as Nettleton's "KM-b"
It was restored "off hours" by 44 Sqdn's mechanics BTW (Waddington)
The Dakota in question, didn't even join the flight until the early 1990's !!
So how T.F do YOU work out "Dakota at the BBMF's inception" F.F.S
Man, you're talking such drivel & completely misleading folks here !!
I first saw the BBMF (collectively) myself at Biggin Hill in June 1974
Even that date is 16+ years BEFORE the BBMF's Dakota arrived !!!!
Please state facts, not talk bollocks & utter drivel, lest YOU mislead people
My favorite British Heavy Bomber of WW2 😍
I always thought it looked like a swan...Something to do with the long neck and upright canopy...I never made the 1/72 Airfix kit and opted for the Lanc...I should probably make one at some point
I believe a stirling pathfinder with H2S that was downed over germany gave the germans first proof that british had developed cavity magnetron. That spelt big trouble as this improved radar expodentialy
This is an enormous task you have taken on IS the nose section the only part to be built
Hi Michael yes so far the front section of the fuselage forward of Frame 14 is the only part we are planning to build. If you skip the video to 1:32 it shows a diagram of what we are hoping to build.
Great video must have had some coaching from Neville 😀
A worthy project. Just a shame you can't recreate the whole thing
More videos??
nice
This is a truly heroic project , but your sound is the most feeble I have ever heard on TH-cam, I sincerely hope you will rectify this., so I can properly understand your achievements.
Hi Andrew what was the issue with the audio for you? Nobody else has mentioned it so far!
@@TheStirlingAircraftProject It was a bit on the quiet side, I did have to turn my volume up. Best of luck with the project going forward.
Thank you Stephen I will see what I can do to get the volume higher on the next episode!
Sorry, but sound. I normally have my sound set at 20%, to watch this, I had to boost to 60% to hear anything clearly.