Time to bite the bullet....

[JayBee]

My memory of the only time I saw a Beverley in flight was at an Air Cadet summer camp at RAF West Raynham in 196*. Do not ask I can not remember.
However we were waiting for our turn to go Air Experience fiying in Chipmunks when this Beverley took off left to right, then turned and flew right to left until it was out of sight. Since then the term "Watching an aircraft fly across the sky" has had a whole new meaning for me.
Years later when I was first posted as a brand new Air Traffic Controller, to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, I found myself as the No.2 to an ex Air Electronics Officer who had been on Beverleys. He had been based in Niarobi and had many interesting tales to tell of that time.

[Captain Canada]

Great stuff. I'd love to have a model of that Bird to fly around the house. Guess I'd better start looking for one !

[PR19_Kit]

However we were waiting for our turn to go Air Experience fiying in Chipmunks when this Beverley took off left to right, then turned and flew right to left until it was out of sight. Since then the term "Watching an aircraft fly across the sky" has had a whole new meaning for me.

A Bev doesn't so much 'fly across the sky' as such, instead it hangs there in the air and waits for the world to rotate underneath it............. 

[tigercat]

For some reason when I saw the thread title I thought of the Muppet song so without further ado

It's time to bite the bullet
It's time to cut some Plastic
It's time to make some room on the workbench  tonight

It's time to fettle some parts
It's time to see if they fit just right
It's time to WHIF a Beverley in the forum tonight

[Rheged]

However we were waiting for our turn to go Air Experience fiying in Chipmunks when this Beverley took off left to right, then turned and flew right to left until it was out of sight. Since then the term "Watching an aircraft fly across the sky" has had a whole new meaning for me.

A Bev doesn't so much 'fly across the sky' as such, instead it hangs there in the air and waits for the world to rotate underneath it............. 

They don't so much fly as trundle laboriously  through the air.

[PR19_Kit]

Got the tail of the Bev assembled now.



MM seem to have ignored the fact that the fins of a Bev are not at right angles to the dihedralled tailplanes so the fins don't sit vertically as they should if you don't take steps to sort it. I filed the tailplane tips so they fitted the fins properly and maximised the glue area.

I've started to look at the PE frets, but shied away.

The numbers etched by the items are SO small I can't even read them with my magnifying glass, so I'll have to install some higher power lenses to see which bits are which.

But they're still small..........