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Old 2nd Jul 2011, 08:10
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ColinB
 
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Rebecca 8 Aerials

BEagle gives an excellent and accurate description of the Rebecca 8 fitted to Vampire, Venoms, JPs. Hunters and Swifts etc.
It may further interest you to know that cadmium? coating on the outer wing aerials was prone to degrade causing them to rust. It was decided to coat them in seaplane varnish as a temporary measure until a bespoke paint, normally in dayglo yellow or orange was introduced but this was only the beginning of a further problem as it was almost impossible to remove the seaplane varnish.
I do not know if it fixed the vibration problem but I saw at least one entry in the F700 which stated aerial vibration at 133 1/3 cycles was experienced while taxy-ing.
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