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Old 29th Sep 2014, 18:35
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Recommended reading on the man behind the Hercules (although the book concentrates more on his earlier engines, as the title suggests):

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Old 30th Sep 2014, 03:38
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This video footage was captured during Classic Fighters 2003 at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, NZ on 30th March last year.

Select “full-screen” and HD, then put on some good headphones and crank up the volume (give your ears a blast of Bristol Hercules music).


The engine is out of a Bristol B170 Freighter.
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Old 1st Oct 2014, 15:38
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What an excellent thread this is, and now it has some wonderful noise on it as well

I second Herods question, what was it that flew off the lh engine? Nobody showed much concern so probably not an important piece of anything.
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Old 1st Oct 2014, 18:26
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It looks to be of a floppy construction like a sponge air filter say. Near the end a fellow in a grey top returns with it and it seems to be bending in the wind.
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Old 2nd Oct 2014, 16:30
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Sorry for the delay , it was in fact a piece of sponge as said earlier, that had been used to stop debris and dust getting into the stationary engine.

looking at the front of the engines I was to the extreme right using a small hand held Vid camera, as I looked up to see with naked eyes I though it was a hat. but no damage done, thankfully.

But that vibration in the air cannot be explained it is totally different to the air vibe given out by the Merlin or the Griffon, I took my old dad down to the Fighter collection about five years before he died, we were giving them some Starters and Mags for Griffon engines, and arranging for my driver to bring down this very R/H Hercules so they could use it to accurately pickup the engine mounting points from the Herc so they could build the engine mounts into the Beaufighter wings, they had already built the cockpit section of the A/c and had quite a few instruments in their and a control col, whilst I was busing myself peering into exotics like the Mustang and I think a P 47, what I only just noticed was Dad ashen faced and with one hand on the cockpit, with eyes so full he could not see, I took hold of him and walked him towards to door this was also seen by the young man showing us around, he quickly suggested we walk to the tie down area out side to watch the first full power run up of a rebuilt Spitfire, that calmed things down a little and I sensed it was time to go, during the next few years Dad unloaded stories to me that he had kept bottled up since those dark times, I feel that four years allowed my beloved father to have the ability of a peaceful and unburdened end to his proud and busy life, I do hope you understand what I have written here

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Indeed we do. Thank you, Peter.
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