If only my old friend John Cook was still with us,he was a rear gunner in a Halifax of 578 SDN Burn UK during the war he would have loved seeing what you guys are doing.please keep up the good work i think we owe this to our aircrew this is just wonderful,thankyou.
Thank goodness there are people who still understand the importance of these aircraft in Canadian history. If my father was still alive he work have moved close to you to helpe with his vast knowledge, he spent years working on these aircraft and others during WWII. The Halifax being his favorite bomber. He had so many stories about being in the RCAF overseas that should have been written down to keep for future generations. I remember him telling me about him being a engine mechanic but would work on anything to keep aircraft in the air. My mother was also RCAF during WWII stationed mainly at RCAF Station Rockcliffe.
I served an undergraduate apprenticeship at BAC Warton from 1968-72. While in the drawing office I had to seek out an old drawing from the stores. I came across a drawing of an inverter used in the Halifax….because the drawing said so. When I enquired further I learnt that the Halifax had been manufactured in Strand Road , Preston, by English Electric. There may still be Halifax production drawings at Warton. From near Middleton St George , this side of the pond…..the warm side, but not a lot. Gud Luk.
What a massive rebuilt, it takes courage to start with it. The Halifax is time consuming to built, so time consuming to rebuilt. The front spar has a truss-web, made of many parts. ( 8:14) I would take 1, long and a bit thinner plate with optimised stiffner-distances on it. But that is hindsight.
Wow, what a brilliant job. Are the outer wings halifax , or, like the Elvington halifax, Hastings? Will it ever fly? You guys are proceeding in a FANTASTIC achievement.
If only my old friend John Cook was still with us,he was a rear gunner in a Halifax of 578 SDN Burn UK during the war he would have loved seeing what you guys are doing.please keep up the good work i think we owe this to our aircrew this is just wonderful,thankyou.
Great job
Congratulations from Brazil
Thank goodness there are people who still understand the importance of these aircraft in Canadian history. If my father was still alive he work have moved close to you to helpe with his vast knowledge, he spent years working on these aircraft and others during WWII. The Halifax being his favorite bomber. He had so many stories about being in the RCAF overseas that should have been written down to keep for future generations. I remember him telling me about him being a engine mechanic but would work on anything to keep aircraft in the air. My mother was also RCAF during WWII stationed mainly at RCAF Station Rockcliffe.
Nice one Karl and the Gang. Keep up the good work 👍😎
Thank you for all your efforts and good luck to you.
Such a massive project. You guys are making outstanding progress. Keep it up
God bless your endeavors.
Incredible work , thanks for the update .
I served an undergraduate apprenticeship at BAC Warton from 1968-72. While in the drawing office I had to seek out an old drawing from the stores. I came across a drawing of an inverter used in the Halifax….because the drawing said so. When I enquired further I learnt that the Halifax had been manufactured in Strand Road , Preston, by English Electric.
There may still be Halifax production drawings at Warton.
From near Middleton St George , this side of the pond…..the warm side, but not a lot. Gud Luk.
excellent job and effort
What a massive rebuilt, it takes courage to start with it. The Halifax is time consuming to built, so time consuming to rebuilt.
The front spar has a truss-web, made of many parts. ( 8:14) I would take 1, long and a bit thinner plate with optimised stiffner-distances on it. But that is hindsight.
Wow, what a brilliant job. Are the outer wings halifax , or, like the Elvington halifax, Hastings? Will it ever fly? You guys are proceeding in a FANTASTIC achievement.
Hope it continues to go well. Just, why are you using walnut? it is a quite rare wood. Why not use Jabroc instead.
So how much of a Hastings will be going into the reconstruction,I saw wing sections at the begining of the video.
Both types share the same wing, both type HP57