In the days before health and safety got OTT!
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In the days before health and safety got OTT!
I have had the good fortune to obtain 2 complete volumes of the monthly Inter Avia magazines (1947 and 49) from a jumble sale for the princely sum of £2 each.... thats each volume not magazine, so I think I could call that a bargain!. It was a school neighbour who died and son-in-law gave a load of "junk" to our schools Christmas Fund jumble. (I also obtained an 1899 OS map of Walsall for 50p and a 1933 "The Motor Magazine Map of England, Wales and Southern Scotland" in immaculate condition complete with canvas wallet for a quid!!) He was going to chuck them until his wife told him to drop them off at the school. 
Anyhow, I digress.
I found the following in the June '47 edition on the precision adjustment techniques for Sikorsky choppers.
Any of you know of similar life threatening, sorry, precision maintenance jobs?
Anyhow, I digress.
I found the following in the June '47 edition on the precision adjustment techniques for Sikorsky choppers.
Any of you know of similar life threatening, sorry, precision maintenance jobs?
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Seems perfectly sensible and much cheaper than all that newfangled Rotortune gubbins, excellent use of the expendable human (the only self replicating tool in the box
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In the late sixties-early seventies I spent many hours blade tracking RN Wessex V helicopters just as in the photo. By this stage though we were using crayons to mark the blade tips and there was a steel base thingy which prevented (in theory) one from stuffing the tracking flag too far into the disc, even so it was not unheard of for a blade tip to contact the tracking pole!
I'm sure the practise went on right up until the Wessex was phased out
I'm sure the practise went on right up until the Wessex was phased out
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I would have thought that the strip should be a bit further from the pole though.
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About all I can think of is these chaps who had to wash down the Lincolns after they had been flown through fallout clouds at the Maralinga nuclear testing site.
Rumour has it that the planes used in these tests were retired to a lonely spot of RAAF Amberley base for many a year. Each aircraft had their own rain runoff concrete apron.
They were eventually buried in the local dump.
Attempts to dig them up for restoration were foiled as it was too dangerous. Not because they could possibly be "Hot" but because they had some old base buildings dumped on top of them which were made from asbestos...
Rumour has it that the planes used in these tests were retired to a lonely spot of RAAF Amberley base for many a year. Each aircraft had their own rain runoff concrete apron.
They were eventually buried in the local dump.
Attempts to dig them up for restoration were foiled as it was too dangerous. Not because they could possibly be "Hot" but because they had some old base buildings dumped on top of them which were made from asbestos...
Last edited by Akubra; 14th Nov 2007 at 12:40.
