Topic: DH2

ooo  eerr   missus     wot have i done

   i am sitting here at my pc waiting the arival of the De Haviland stork (aka Dave Whiston "captain Beaky" in a white van) Delivering my new aquisistion THE DH2.. after a couple of years of doing more road miles than air miles, it is coming to the ceejay workshops for a full refurb, and new colour scheme, a little daunting given its past success in the hands of Ian, its all been done proper like, its allready registered in my name with the LMA over 20Kg scheme, and forms will be filled in asap for exemtions to test fly etc, hopeing to have it at wigan in some sort of assembleable condition, not painted !!......

          Now Do i record and post the work on here runnig the risk of boring the pants off folks!!  or sneak off quietly and come back when its done,               will it be ok?               will it finish up looking like a bag of old clothes?...   ???ooooooooo  the stress

  chris

YAY, please post away, I am lacking mojo at the mo and will welcome seeing someone else doing what I should be doing...

PS, have you practiced those cross/reverse aileron/rudder inputs yet! Perhaps you need to before the strip and refurb! 

Chris, you had better put progress on here, or the boys will be round  

Remind me what scheme it will be as I will have to change the Data plate, and the web site and the .....  can't we keep it the same colour  

Steve

PS, have you practiced those cross/reverse aileron/rudder inputs yet! Perhaps you need to before the strip and refurb! 

Oh yes, looking forward to seeing those

Steve

Chris, you had better put progress on here, or the boys will be round  

Remind me what scheme it will be as I will have to change the Data plate, and the web site and the .....  can't we keep it the same colour  

Steve

The amount of miles this has done, it'll probably end up with the German Cross....

been doing lots of practice on the crossed control front, i used to fly a certain Morane that insisted that right aileron meant a left turn and visey versy

  but will be fixing all the rigging and structural problems , then flying it, the changing scheme....bout 2012 then!!

  no we cant keep it the same colour.... Taps threatend me 

  'taint here yet    !!!

  chris

 

yea put it here i need some inspiration to keep drawing away hehehe

Pleeease document your progress here mate,

I'd love to see it too 

Another Yes vote Chris for a restoration thread.

Subscribed and waiting for the off

Alan

Chris, you'd better have this then

It'd be nice to see this going again, its had a hard life this last couple of seasons!!

Ian.

hi peeps

   took delivery last evening, hmmmmmmm!!  didn't know the war was still on!! quite a bit of battle damage, asked Ian to come and help me rig it in my school workshop next week to assess the work required, lots of rigging lots of covering on the list so far (only had 10 Min's this morning looking at panels etc) even Edd the pilot has gone AWOL

   so hang on will be starting the thread soon

  Chris

Watching with interest 

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Mark

Thanks Ian,

   

  chris

ooo  eerr   missus    wot have i done

   i am sitting here at my pc waiting the arival of the De Haviland stork (aka Dave Whiston "captain Beaky" in a white van) Delivering my new


 Hey up Lad

I resemble that remark are you tryingto say I look like a stork in a white  van bloody fat stork if you ask me  








    

ooo  eerr   missus    wot have i done

   i am sitting here at my pc waiting the arival of the De Haviland stork (aka Dave Whiston "captain Beaky" in a white van) Delivering my new


 Hey up Lad

I resemble that remark are you tryingto say I look like a stork in a white  van bloody fat stork if you ask me  








    

Hey up Mister
stop messing around with all those other bits and bobs and get started on this one,
We have enough Pups  and anyway I think this aircraft is "ACE" and would prefer to see you flying it sooner than later 

well hi peeps

  many apalogies for the tardiness of my updates, ie non, so far ,however all is set to change the DH2 has been transfered to my secret location for analasys and restoration, on the first point i have taken some pics for your delectation, just to give a scale to the task i have taken on 

  first two show a rear boom strut, all struts were in a similar condition, next two show rear booms the holes should be 4mm and the booms should be straight, there is some distortion from the close up but they are both bent.

  chris

NEXT 

  next two... top one shows rudder top hinge broken, paint colour shows previous repair. next is the fin part of hinge. pic 3 shows two rearmost struts one original one a replacement. last pic is just a hole in top wing fabric.

  chris

Bored yet

  pics 1 and 2 just more fabric tears/holes, pic three shows the magazine rack where the swiches are housed, mag rack is broken and needs replacement switches will be changed for new ones, pic 4 is a view up inside front of cockpit and the RX location all these wires should be behind dash panel and fus side into mag rack all will be rewired as its being converted to 2.4 as the refurb continues. oops just noticed its upside down  oooo

  chris

are you sure !!

  just some fringe stuff here,  1 broken windscreen, 2 the other mag rack  "two required then" runway scuff on wing tip, both tips are the same, final on is the dummy rotary that now has no pushrods left and all the crankcase is broken, blue foam falling out every where, new cylinders ordered  (hey Sym !!)

  chris

just a few more honest

 

  i left these till last  first shows rudder hinge point at rear upright, torn fabric hides a broken structure,  and the most scary one of all the LAST pic for now (hoo said hooray!) this is the lower boom conection wher both lower booms meet the rudder post/upright when i took the tubes out i could see what appeard to be a crack so i gives it a pull and came away with two bit not one Hmmmm,i think ive seen that first one somewhere before

  chris

pic 3 shows two rearmost struts one original one a replacement. last pic is just a hole in top wing fabric.

Chris, is that a split in the bottom end of the strut or just a pencil line?

Are you going to do a complete re-cover?

just a few more honest

Keep them coming


Mark

My, how things can change in just a couple of years

I'm sure you'll bring it back mate

Them booms and struts got some serious bendage what??

Ian.

no pics this time honest

  so to the update report, pics next week, work so far, first was to address the issue of the broken tube connector, now it was allways my plan to alter this to make it more dismantleable, so it has been altered, it was first reunited into one assy, then cut down the middle to give two halves one tube each side, this is now mountable with bolts to upright tube, it will all become clear when i do the foto,s, next was to the booms, these are made from ally tube, all mounting points were reinforced with hard dowel inserts all oversize holes filled then redrilled all tubes straightend then rubbed down a coat of etch primer two coats of hi build primer another rub down then two coats of gloss grey, a new rear upright has been made to match the other side and all strut mounting threads are now straight, all the rear rigging has been binned and new 75lb weight wire purchased, booms will be re assembled and re rigged next week, then its onto the next bit, dunno wether to do fus or wings any suggestions folks

  Chris

  off out to shed now to try to finish a Piper Tripacer refit for weekend ..

Hi Mark
   yes it is a split at the end of the strut, and yes the srut burned well for 2 mins new strut is identical shape to original, awaiting varnish and logo, and most importantly... no cracks . as to a complete recover, will know more when i start to do the flying surfaces, i dont personaly mind patches and such in the fabric as long as the dont cover structural damage, after all its going to be finished in the colours of a frontline fighter, and will appear to be "well worn" and battle scarred when done but it will only be for apearances, it will be fully refurbed and inspected cos its over 20kgs, hence no more pics yet the mods are awaiting their inspection.

  phew!! my typing finger hurts noww, all together  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

   chris

Aye up 

I just thought I had better sign in so I don't miss any action   

you seem to be making good progress so far, keep the piccys comin matey 

ya doing a great job and a good service to a lovely model. can' imagine what has happened to this since i last saw it static at wings and wheels in 2008.

did i see it fly at barkston heath, august 2007, in all it's resplendent glory..

stuey

  i think that might have been the last time Ian flew it (or Hop Farm ) no doubt he will be along shortly to let us know.

  chris

.......................even Edd the pilot has gone AWOL

He's still up here ...sorry, found him in a corner a few days ago, forgot to give to Ian when he came and collected the airframe in Jan. Will drop off next time I see you.

Looks like you have a long road ahead Chris......the main reason why it was stationary up here for so long

Phil

Phill

  thanks for catching the little runaway  will pic it up at weston if your there

   how do you cope with all these projects at once, its drivin me barmy,, 1 piper tripacerier tug refit, 2 just finished a 1/4 scale HP18 glider, yt Cessna 188 ready for greenacres (yea) , 1/3 scale Grunau Baby for weston (??) and half way through covering a Penrose Pegasus vintage glider, although its been halway through for weeks

  chris

the DH2 has been transfered to my secret location for analasys and restoration, on the first point i have taken some pics for your delectation, just to give a scale to the task i have taken on 

Oh no!  Surely it must be a different aeroplane. 

What on earth happened to that thing of beauty (no no, not Redshaw) I first spied at Conningsby in 2006

Can't wait to see it restored to it's former glory Chris.

Alan

stuey

  i think that might have been the last time Ian flew it (or Hop Farm ) no doubt he will be along shortly to let us know.

  chris

 For some bizarre reason I kept a diary for this model. Never done it before or since!! Last time I flew it was 3 goes up at Ashbourne in September 2007.  Last shows it attended were Hop Farm and I think Much Marcle.   Said diary isn't near at the moment. I remember the diary lists every flight and every problem or incident. In all the years I flew it from memory there was only a handful of untoward happenings.
 The scariest was a radio problem at Weston Park, where just after take off and climb out the model rolled onto is back and dived towards the hard stuff. I was holding in the controls to stop the diving roll and when control was regained it promptly (like it ever did owt promptly   ) started to roll the other way. Needless to say the DH2 was landed on the downwind leg of the same first circuit. This was put down to an 'electrical storm' apparently a couple of others suffered similar.
 Another memorable one was at Catton Hall, a flying wire bracket came undone, leaving a stainless bracket with two flying wires attached to it trailing free. Where did it get tangled, the darned prop!!! The prop blade went between the two wires and clouted the bracket off the end with the loudest noise I have ever heard from a toy aeroplane. The damage was minimal, a small chunk out of the prop and the obvious loss of same bracket!!

It has just over eighteen hours on the clock which amounts to a hearty 110 flights ( if my brain is working out 10 mins a flight ) in which time it was never dinged, apart from its very first flight attempt which broke a landing wire bracket after I throttled back below 100% - silly boy - I may as well have thrown it from an upstairs window.

It'll be nice to watch it fly in the near future

After all that bad news, views like this will be the reward 

Must admit I have always liked this model and it was perhaps seeing it fly at Cosford that finally convince me that, I should stop playing with half aeroplane's and build a real one with two wings. Below is the photo that sits at the top of my web page, Can 't wait to see her back in her former glory.  
Is Cosford on the Radar Chris ?

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Phill

  thanks for catching the little runaway  will pic it up at weston if your there

   how do you cope with all these projects at once, its drivin me barmy,, 1 piper tripacerier tug refit, 2 just finished a 1/4 scale HP18 glider, yt Cessna 188 ready for greenacres (yea) , 1/3 scale Grunau Baby for weston (??) and half way through covering a Penrose Pegasus vintage glider, although its been halway through for weeks

  chris

Sorry Chris, can't do Weston........Cosford or Rufforth do ya?

Can't be doing with only 1 project to think about.....I get bored....4 or 5 is far more entertaining!!

Phil