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Offline JUGgler

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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #165 on: December 02, 2011, 01:14:29 PM »
BUMP!  This again  :aok :aok



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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #166 on: December 02, 2011, 04:27:12 PM »
Hopefully a little more reading material on the way soon  :aok
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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #167 on: December 02, 2011, 06:17:54 PM »
When can we vote on it ? tomarrow? Sweet.
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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #168 on: December 03, 2011, 01:44:54 AM »
If we get the Hampden along with it, totally.....

+1 in any case
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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #169 on: December 05, 2011, 06:21:57 AM »
+1 It would be a monster in Early War and very respectable in Mid :aok

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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #170 on: December 05, 2011, 07:15:35 AM »
+1 It would be a monster in Early War and very respectable in Mid :aok

and in late war it would still be alot of fun to fly!


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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #171 on: December 05, 2011, 01:29:09 PM »
Booo   Hissss    Boooooo   Hisssssss


No.  No, no, no, no.  I say NO...


...because it's not being added soon enough. :D

I'm curious to what parts will start to shed when compressed...  Tail looks mighty squishy at high speed.... :noid
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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #172 on: December 11, 2011, 05:41:53 PM »
"If man were meant to fly, he'd have been given an MS Sidewinder"

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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #173 on: December 12, 2011, 08:37:09 AM »
Nice pic nrshida.

Come on now, we only need 100 blokes to donate  £1 ($1.50 exchange rate?) each to get the  performance and handling file scanned from the public records office. Then send it off to Hitech and we should have it about 2 weeks after that? You know it makes sense!  :)

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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #174 on: December 12, 2011, 01:39:16 PM »
Nice pic nrshida.

Come on now, we only need 100 blokes to donate  £1 ($1.50 exchange rate?) each to get the  performance and handling file scanned from the public records office. Then send it off to Hitech and we should have it about 2 weeks after that? You know it makes sense!  :)

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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #175 on: December 12, 2011, 01:48:58 PM »
Nice pic nrshida.

Come on now, we only need 100 blokes to donate  £1 ($1.50 exchange rate?) each to get the  performance and handling file scanned from the public records office. Then send it off to Hitech and we should have it about 2 weeks after that? You know it makes sense!  :)

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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #176 on: December 12, 2011, 01:51:39 PM »
£100? where is this doc?
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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #177 on: December 12, 2011, 03:18:42 PM »
I'm afraid it's £199 RTHolmes, public records office. That's for an electronic version by the way.
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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #178 on: December 12, 2011, 04:26:19 PM »
where is this public records office? surely someone local could pop in with a digi camera and copy it all for free? if its in the UK isnt it free to access (although they can charge what they like for providing copies ...)?
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Re: Westland Whirlwind
« Reply #179 on: December 12, 2011, 07:46:11 PM »
Apparently you can't do that, the £199 is for them to fetch it for you. It's in the National Archive:-

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=5007594

AVIA 18/691, "Whirlwind aircraft: performance and handling trials".

Says it's in Kew.

Both Baggy and I applied for a copy and the quotation was £199, in my case that was for a downloadable electronic version.  :rolleyes: :cry

Unless anyone knows of another way to access such things? I also expected access to this kind of stuff to be free or else very close to it.

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