tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80931963653212386302024-03-12T16:43:14.926-07:00AV-8B "Lucy"Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-11861814512131102532014-01-19T04:46:00.000-08:002014-01-19T04:46:30.813-08:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Happy New Year to you all,
and Good Luck for 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It has been a quiet time
since my last post, nearly seven months ago, time really does fly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We have had some ups and
downs, but came out the other side, onward and upward they say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I have been waiting for some
items to sell before I can afford a couple of things I have been offered, but
the bargain of the year so far has to be the new A.O.A indicator I purchased
from a company in FLORIDA!</span></div>
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£15.23 post, and six days later, it arrived fantastic!</span></div>
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Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-52340982418167393092013-07-29T01:15:00.002-07:002013-07-29T01:15:47.949-07:00<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> LUCY’S
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The day came, after a long and hard two and a half years, we finally
got to take Lucy to her first show, and what a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Having met up with Simon Pulford of Air Pulford and his Tornado F3
simulator, we set up side by side on the grade I listed apron outside of the
iconic Speke airport, now the fabulous <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Crowne</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Plaza</st1:placetype></st1:place>
hotel at around 09.45, with our first visitors a few minutes later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We had lots of great feedback and comments which made it all worthwhile,
and hope it won’t be too long before we get to venture out again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So a big thank you to Simon and also a big thank you to Roy Coates
of SAHR, (Speke Aerodrome Heritage Group) who arranged the whole day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-35511380133317151512013-03-28T11:48:00.000-07:002013-03-28T11:48:15.878-07:00A.O.A<br />
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“Lucy” out for a spring clean and wash… until today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been keeping his eye out for a A.O.A probe, and the postie arrived bright and
early with a package enclosing said item. That then covers all external instruments….pitot
x 2 and now the probe…fantastic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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show is at the end of June at the old Speke airport for their eightieth birthday
celebrations, so watch this space!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-41430258386439646252012-12-23T12:15:00.000-08:002012-12-23T12:15:07.661-08:00Glare Shield...<br />
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Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-45607131561984856712012-07-15T11:15:00.000-07:002012-07-15T11:15:14.322-07:00Trailer<br />
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the correct one is another mission in its self!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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off looking at boat trailers, and the shape and size of them are of that near
the cockpit. But with the prices of them being that nearly four figures it soon
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the same shape as a boat trailer and also nearly the same shape as the cockpit.
Caravan chassis come with the huge wooden and polystyrene floor still in place.
Getting rid of that was a big task in its self. Then we had to shorten the
trailer. We cut off around 4ft off the back of it and used the off cuts to
create a back support to hold the shape and also the light board in place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Once the shape was there then the work of making it from a old unloved Caravan chassis from a breakers to a trailer worthy of towing a Harrier cockpit around began. We sanded down the trailer and decided to paint it white, and paint the axel, hubs and wheels black, along with sheets of marine ply painted in a rosewood varnish. The ‘A’ frame at the front is topped with checker plate and we just tidied up the towing hitch with a new coat of paint. </span>
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of the final things left to fill the cockpit spaces was a Tag Heuer Stopwatch. After
researching them on the internet it soon hit us that it would be near impossible
to obtain one after seeing them sell for between £500-£2000! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and including postage it came to a grand total of…………… £20! Talk about bargain of the century!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-338260031885278942012-04-15T12:09:00.000-07:002012-04-15T12:09:22.040-07:00Panels Fitted...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The four panels that we've made have now been fitted, and that fills all of the 'major' gaps and holes that were missing panels. For homemade replicas, they don't look too bad i think!... </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">As we only had four more ‘cannot miss’ holes to fill in the right hand side of the panel, and with parts seeming to get rarer and rarer to find, we decided to take a few afternoons in the garage and began to fabricate them, using bakelite, aluminium and red tint Perspex and a few altimeter counters we bought off eBay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-1143059808137321012012-03-17T12:07:00.000-07:002012-03-17T12:07:55.183-07:00Throttle Box update...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4Jt7HWipxPFK6faDgzvQ89U3J5eaAKVxzos0cEDE4m8qrEbTXwjK5NUDDRIlt6HgzyQqlu8CqKVbAzJgFIYvYULrDQgZvY8F1leKUxY3ko-65Glt4BPqcMau0W_DyUWTZfZy5l44sV8/s1600/piccy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4Jt7HWipxPFK6faDgzvQ89U3J5eaAKVxzos0cEDE4m8qrEbTXwjK5NUDDRIlt6HgzyQqlu8CqKVbAzJgFIYvYULrDQgZvY8F1leKUxY3ko-65Glt4BPqcMau0W_DyUWTZfZy5l44sV8/s200/piccy2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqiQg4VZw99w0BjDl2xDwClrBYEtUlr0F6bOOhdhJNITFGdK72hne6H8QC8WOdfeJ5JzOkc77clmG77IA3H9ExYQZ1ak8RO-OnQcuJQKlT9CooL-d1oCmMcJk_ub5Jb91uWPxGda2Gbs/s1600/piccy+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqiQg4VZw99w0BjDl2xDwClrBYEtUlr0F6bOOhdhJNITFGdK72hne6H8QC8WOdfeJ5JzOkc77clmG77IA3H9ExYQZ1ak8RO-OnQcuJQKlT9CooL-d1oCmMcJk_ub5Jb91uWPxGda2Gbs/s200/piccy+1.jpg" width="150" /></a><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10pt;">Having modified a simulator throttle box, we now have finally a 99.9% complete throttle box! And to be honest, I don’t think it looks that bad! (Considering most of the parts are hand-made by me and my dad). Still a long way to go in other areas (awaiting replies from many emails) to help us, will keep you all posted.</span></div>Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-72657603170055699152012-02-25T10:51:00.000-08:002012-02-25T10:51:39.916-08:00Parts Update 2...<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10pt;">A good few hours were spent in the garage today as me and dad knocked up a throttle box. The one that we had was built for a simulator, so the right hand side was slightly shy of the dzus rail, so after some precision and (skillful) cutting involving my dad and a grinder, we now have a throttle box worthy of a place inside the cockpit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Hi, just a quick parts update which have now supplied and fitted! Some hard graft involving my dad, Perspex and MDF took place to create a screen for the MFD surround which looks pretty cool, and again, some more non-Harrier hole fillers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Not many more holes to fill now, possibly 4-5 fascias, and then we will have a near complete Harrier cockpit!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-54081801512635076932011-12-12T11:33:00.000-08:002011-12-12T11:33:35.548-08:00Update of mission markings.Hello all, sorry there hasn't been any posts on for a while. This is just a short one to inform you all of the mission markings update. As you can see from the previous we have had Lucy decorated in Michelle's mission markings, but thanks to Mr Dave Taylor she is now complete in her own markings. There are still two stickers that should not be on, but while trying to peel them off, they began to peel the paint, so for now there is no harm in leaving them were they are as they don't really look that out of place.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The decals that we had made, are that of ZD404 (Op Herrick) with the full set of mission markings, and a ‘proper’ ejection seat and canopy sticker. After I had done some research of ZD404 I realized that she was known to the RAF boys as Lucy (the glamour model!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Unfortunately, the black silhouette of her and her name didn’t come with the mission markings, so me and dad set about getting Lucy’s curves right on a piece of cardboard that was to be the stencil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Once she was perfect we set about drawing her out onto the black vinyl, I must admit that by the end she looked quite good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">At the show we found Simon (Tonker) who as always made us feel very welcome, so all in all a great day.</span></div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We managed to borrow a compressor and a spray gun from dads work. The boys in the paint shop also sorted us out with some primer that was needed. So we waited for a sunny weekend and set about priming her up.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10.0pt;">From the beginning I decided that I wanted my harrier to be in the RAF colour scheme, which by luck, my Tornado MK10 seat is painted in. We took a small part off the seat to a company not far from away from us and got the grey colour made up. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We started to prime her, and the sandy colour primer looked quiet smart as the Gulf war livery! But once we started shooting the grey, it was clear that, that was the obvious choice!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10.0pt;">At the front of our nose cone there is some sort of camera, these are very expensive to buy (when they come up) so we improvised…… we fitted a swivel CCTV camera on the inside and used the clear Perspex dome that came with it, as the glass lens at the front……<o:p></o:p></span></div>Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-6136253849475128182011-07-18T12:03:00.000-07:002011-07-18T12:03:26.083-07:00<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Once she was completely bondo free, there were a few things that needed doing, for example two new main access panels needed fabricating, the steps made good and working and the holes that were routed out on the nose cone needed filling, but generally she wasn't in too bad a state.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The day after we went to pick the cockpit up, work began on stripping her of the 'bondo' coating, as the company that previously owned her used her to make GRP moldings for flight simulators. So, out came the sander and away we went.</span><br />
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We were soon on the motorway heading home, you can see people looking, but one thing that you don't expect is for people to be taking photographs of you on the move! How cool is that! These photos are courtesy of Mr Simon Pullford (Tornado owner).Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-89260129906277700842011-07-17T10:02:00.000-07:002011-07-17T10:41:29.362-07:00The collection.The day of the collection dawned (04:30!) the trip from Liverpool to Peterborough took over 3 and a half hours, excitement made it worse!!<br />
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We arrived at the company's premises where we met Ken, one of the directors who made us very welcoming cup of tea. The deal was done and then time for further travel to Huntington where the cockpit lay in wait. There we met Tony, Kens partner... and there she was! loaded onto the back of the pick-up, strapped on and away we went for our long drive home!<br />
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Emails, letters and phone calls went on for months, and then eureka! dad got an email in November 2010, from a chap who lives in Devon, Mr Dave Taylor, who put us in touch with a company in Peterborough who had a current USMC AV-8B Harrier cockpit for sale! The deal was quickly done and my new project awaited collection.<br />
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Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093196365321238630.post-30410945295133812552011-07-16T12:11:00.000-07:002011-07-16T12:11:39.263-07:00In the beginning..........Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02314980371430976843noreply@blogger.com1