OT still, but... there are web hits for Vampire with IFF and Radar. [Country
vs year vs model etc though.]
BTW, the Rebecca is part of an interrogator system; Rebecca finds the Eureka.
The system can be employed as a DME.
I am 'restoring' a Rebecca IV. The IV was the British test bed for the
miniature 7-pin valves (and other miniaturisations).
John K
Australia
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From: Paul Parry
To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: For Steampunk Nixie Clock Fans..
XD515 was in very poor condition, it used to live at Newark Air museum
under the wing of a Vulcan - outdoors and with a massive hole in the side of
the cockpit the size of a dustbin lid. Newark scrapped the plane off, and my
friend Erik purchased it for scrap value with a view of restoring it as a
retirement project as he worked on them in the RAF many years ago. Over 2 years
Erik dismantled the plane on site and brought it home bit by bit in his car and
on a trailer, and started work on it. The fuselage is wooden, the same as a
Mosquito, so he completely replace the side with the hole in as it would have
originally been done by DeHavilland. I joined him on the project a few years
later and I worked on the electrical systems, with a view to getting it to
power up. I got the rotary inverters going, and a lot of the instrumentation
functional. Sadly though Erik developed emphaceama and passed away, and he left
me the plane as an on-going concern. I was not in the position to take the
plane from Erik's house, or had the room myself to house it all, I already had
the Goblin Engine in my garage along with the rear fuselage, no room for wings
and cockpit so it ended up as a collection of parts at RAF Cosford, where I
hope they will put it back together as it is all there and put it on display.
At least it is in the right place, and they have the facilities and room to put
it back together.
I don't think the Vampire had any IFF system, there was a very early radar
fitted (Rebecca) that used little antennas on the wings and tails but that is
advanced as it got, little G4F compass system and that was about it. The engine
starting mechanism / timer was clockwork which made me smile.
Never heard of the TabbyF system, makes interesting reading though!
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