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- Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:49 am
- Forum: Headquarters
- Topic: Stirling Aircraft Project - Engineering help needed
- Replies: 16
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Re: Stirling Aircraft Project - Engineering help needed
Hi New to the forum, but having read through this thread, I'll chuck my offer in. I am Course Leader of Product Design at a University in the UK. We have a number of CNC machines at our disposal. Because are need is model making, we don't do metals, though if you need milling of parts for casting we...
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:38 am
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: Fell out of a Stirling & Survived - An Amazing Story
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5119
Re: Fell out of a Stirling & Survived - An Amazing Story
I believe the incident you mentioned is this one (taken from wikipedia) Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (1923–1987) was a tail gunner for a Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber during World War II who survived a fall of 18,000 feet (5500 m) without a parachute after his plane was shot dow...
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:12 pm
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: Short Stirling Photo Collection
- Replies: 194
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Re: Short Stirling Photo Collection
Hi guys - first post on the forum, though some of you will possibly know me from the Lancaster Archive forum (amongst others.....) Just wanted to share this picture, that I came across only recently, whilst visiting my late fathers navigator from his first tour in 1943 - my father flew 2 tours with ...