Jonathan Richards > On Friday 23 Apr 2004 4:11 pm, Vivian Meazza wrote: > > Jon Stockill wrote > <snip> > > > They were particularly impressed > > > with the Seahawk and hunter models, so if Vivian wants to do a > > > Seafire version of his spitfire model I'm sure they'd be happy to > > > supply some information. > > > > The thought had crossed my mind :-) and the transformation into a > > Seafire MkIB or MkIIC would be trivial. Got to get the Spitfire IIa > > working properly first, though. > Vivian > I work for the MoD, and if you think we could get anything > useful I'm prepared > to write to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight [1] and ask > them for > information. P7350 is a MkIIa: "the oldest airworthy > Spitfire in the world > and the only survivor of the Battle of Britain still flying" > [2]. When I was reading the thread about the boost control > valve, I couldn't help > thinking that we could contact an engineer who would have a > definitive > answer. Any good?
I think that would be a very good idea. I think I have evolved a pretty good idea of what it did from various documents on the web and elsewhere (good enough for our simulation anyway), but I would be absolutely fascinated to learn how it actually worked. Quite a bit seems to get left out. I assume that it was common knowledge at the time, and they didn't expect guys like us to be worrying at it over half a century later. Regards Vivian _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
