February 2003
Jarkman, The Cursing Chemist and I took a trip to the aircraft scrappie.
The blue thing is about 2' of titanium tube and the shiny sphere has its own picture below
There's also a crate or two of assorted gauges, fixtures, fittings and the usual rubbish.
Centrifugal compresor impeller from a small gas turbine.
Splendid analogue computer from some naval gunnery system. Dated 1974, it's mainly synchroes and resolvers, with mechanical gearing and differentials. There are a few transistors on board, and a couple of valves too.
Cost me all of £5 that did 8-)
Launch director (sight and steering handles) for a Vigilant (?) anti-tank
missile.
Wehrner Von Braun's teapot
No idea what this is. It's a very shiny stainless sphere, with a 1968 date stamp. Rocket bits ?
One of our main reasons for this trip was to get some big long wing parts
to make shelving. We failed on the shelves, but these leading edges might make
uprights with something else between them.
Mad engine inlet thing
Scrapped owing to birdstrike !
Another chair, a bit like this one we made
earlier.
This came from a Belfast (or so we're told)
