Keep watching - something is happening////

No I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.

And I would dearly love to share with you the current project that I am doing

But I can't............yet   :-)

It will be worth it (Well, at least I think so) so please be patient.

Oh remember those Beaufighter wheels that I posted about ?  Well after much chasing and researching I acquired the legs to go with them. Now of course that would be easy right?  Well, sort of.  I have three legs now (can a plane do Jake the Peg impersonations?)  but one is quite different from the other two. It leads me to think that one type is Australian and the other is British. Not only that but the matched pair look like they have been fitted up to a Beaufort at some point - both only have one brake attachment. So I will need to get the others made at some point. I have 98% of the parts for the cockpit panel as well - now to get the measurements for the panel.

I was lucky enough to get into the cockpit of the Moorabbin Air Museum Beaufighter recently. And it reminded me of why I was told I could never be a pilot when I was at school. Being 6ft 6 is great for many things but not flying older aircraft, and my head was the lucky recipient of many souvenirs (ie dents) from banging my head as I made my way around the interior.

But being my first time inside a WW2 aircraft it was very cool, and provided a lot of invaluable info for me to work on

So as I say, stay tuned. Depending on how things go, it may be a month or four before this current thing is done, and then it will be reported here