Firestreak bits needed
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Firestreak bits needed
Can anyone help with a couple of DH Firestreak fins and a couple of steering vanes for same please for a restoration project.
It would also be fab if someone had a whole or had a template for the glass facetted nosecone?
Can buy or swap for parachutes.
Thanks in advance.
It would also be fab if someone had a whole or had a template for the glass facetted nosecone?
Can buy or swap for parachutes.
Thanks in advance.
There may still be a nosecone at Headley Court, it was mounted with a Lightning on the inside. That was about 1997.
Although they may have had a clearout since then......
Although they may have had a clearout since then......
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If you are in Wild West Wales, there is a perfectly preserved one not far from you at Cosford ....including the internals.
We have one at Solent Sky in Southampton on our Sea Vixen, (no, sorry, you cannot have it ) but no internal gubbins.
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Here's a pic of the nose section I took last year at Cosford:
We have one at Solent Sky in Southampton on our Sea Vixen, (no, sorry, you cannot have it ) but no internal gubbins.
Corsairoz
Here's a pic of the nose section I took last year at Cosford:
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Thanks for that and yes a trip to Cosford is on the cards soon. Is that a display nosecone to display the internals ? Pictures I've seen show a darkened glass nose - not clear.
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I am no expert, but I believe that picture is pretty much ready for action. Ours at Solent Sky is the same. I do know that the prism is not glass but is made of Arsenic Trisulfide, which is near transparent to infrared (pretty important when designing a heat seeker nose).
Take a look at this pic elsewhere on PPRUNE...
http://i38.tinypic.com/jfi4i8.jpg
Although many pictures show the dark red plastic ground cover used to protect the prism, when loaded and ready to go, it's as my picture above.
I think the same is true of its successor, the Red Top...see below...(again at Cosford)
but I am no expert, as I said.
We have a Red Top on the other wing of our Sea Vixen (sorry, you cannot have that either )
Corsairoz
Take a look at this pic elsewhere on PPRUNE...
http://i38.tinypic.com/jfi4i8.jpg
Although many pictures show the dark red plastic ground cover used to protect the prism, when loaded and ready to go, it's as my picture above.
I think the same is true of its successor, the Red Top...see below...(again at Cosford)
but I am no expert, as I said.
We have a Red Top on the other wing of our Sea Vixen (sorry, you cannot have that either )
Corsairoz
Last edited by Corsairoz; 26th Apr 2012 at 01:01.