April '10
review
The month has been spent mainly
on painting the nose area and with the good weather plenty of progress
has been made. Highlight of the month was the open day on 10th April
when the project had numerous visitors, this is covered on a separate
page, click here
to see the report
04.04.10
No Guppy work done today. EVERY
set of steps had been moved to the top pan, ready for the arrival of
2 VC.10s on 6th April for dismantling and spares recovery. Apparently
they were not sure which size steps they would need so everything was
taken there ready
There’s a bit about their arrival here on our forum :
http://superguppy.yuku.com/topic/58
and a lot more photos here
( I haven’t copied them directly as I haven’t asked permission):
http://www.iconicaircraft.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2673
So Gaz spent the day, like
the old days, doing jobs for the CWJ lads. Changed the empty nitrogen
bottles on the trolley for the full ones, inflated the Victor and Sea
Vixen tyres and watched the main oleo on the good JP get recharged.
Then put the Nitrogen trolley to bed and gave our, lovely, little 28V
geni a short run to keep her breathing.
Back to Guppy duties soon (hopefully!!)
07.04.10
After playing
on the VC-10 for a while Gaz managed to get the blue finished
round the nose section. Many, many thanks to the LPG for the loan
of the steps! It's very much appreciated!!
Our aim was to get the blue on the
nose done by the open day and the entire nose complete by the
Cold War Jets Day on 30th May |
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10.04.10 - open day –
see separate report
14.04.10
Nice
weather again today! So we made the most of it. Gaz noticed some
water marks on our lovely new paint so Ian was sent up to clean
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After some sanding and deliberation
about the red paint- (In the roller tray it looked VERY red),
but, we decided to give it a go and Gaz set to it.
To be honest, we think it looks
great! ,
before:
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....... half painted (masking
tape still in place)
The yellow and orange
have been ordered, thanks to everybody who contributed at the
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18-4-10
Don't really
know what's going on. ANOTHER nice day at Bruntingthorpe!
Dickon was on hand to some painting
with Gaz and between them, they got the red finished around the
nose section
no 25 (a.k.a. Dickon)
in action:-
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The completed red paint on the starboard
side:
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and nose on:
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And the
completed red (and blue)paint job on the port side:
If you roll over the
image with your cursor you will see how it looked just one month
earlier before the painting was started - now how observant are
you , - can you spot something about the 'pre-paint' image? |
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There
were lots of visitors in today as well.
With opening the windows to cool it
down in there, Gaz managed to get a photo from outside looking
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21-04-10
Gaz arrived at Bruntingthorpe, fetched
the steps from the LPG (cheers Andy!) and set to masking the orange
bits. Then opened the can of orange paint, it's orange. Next he
poured some into a roller tray, still orange. Get up the steps
and start painting..........
However.... it turned out to be an exact match for the yellow
so at least it’s not wasted
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After a good soak with penetrating
oil, some brut force and a bit of swearing...... Got an engine
nacelle open at last!!
If you look left of centre in the
photo on the right, you'll see a rusty old square of sheet steel.
That IS what the props are bolted to, so no gearboxes
Like everything else, it looks like the engines were lovingly
removed. Just need some kind person to give us some old herc
engines
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28-04-10:
No progress on the aircraft today, but, after 90 minutes of travelling
between the crew hut, David Walton's office and the paint shop (3 times)
Gaz did manage to secure our orange paint supply.
Next month it’s continuing
with painting the yellow and orange areas on the nose ready for the
Cold War Jets open day on
30th when the Guppy will also be open for viewing, please come along
for a look.
