dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Just found out from my contact at Shoreham that the canadian Lanc has had to pull out of all weekends flying due to a spectacular engine failure whilst landing yesterday. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11440887.Canadian_Lancaster_won_t_be_flying_at_the_Bournemouth_Air_Festival/?ref=var_0 Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted August 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28981916 Link to post Share on other sites
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britfrog 180 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 what a shame , surely the BOB has a spare they can lend them for the time being? it takes only 4 hours to change an engine Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted August 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 East Kirkby are supplying an engine but to get it up to standard including fitting takes at least 36 hours. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 It's fortunate that it wasn't worse. A B-17 was lost to an engine fire in the US a couple of years ago. They made a successful gear-down forced landing in a field and everyone aboard got out unhurt but the aircraft was totally destroyed by the fire. The Lanc is even more rare than the B-17 and no one can fault them for being very, very conservative with her, including plenty of testing of the new engine to be sure all is as it should be. I'm very happy the aircraft was saved. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Maybe she'll have to stay this side of the pond? Altogether, now: "Aah!" Cheers - Dai. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted August 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 It would seem that the BoB Lanc uses a different mark of Merlin to the Canadian one hence the BoBs stock of engines are not compatible. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 I could be wrong but the canadan one probably has packhard merlins whilst the uk will have rolls royce merlins. for those that dont know the difference packhards were given the job of building the merlins to put in the mustangs and other a/c , however they modified it quite severely and made a much better engine of it , the main difference was that the RR v12 had wet liners , which lead to many head gasket failures the us engine had a proper block with dry liners, the engines were heavier but more reliable. And just a little bit more useless info, as many of you know they fitted the merlin into tanks back then as well, the difference?????? the direction of rotation of the engine , consequently you cannot fit a tank engine into an a/c despite there being many hundreds of army surplus going begging the cost of converting them is more than getting hold of a proper a/c merlin Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Interesting info there Nigel - during the war a lot of Packard Merlin Lancs got Rollers ones, and the reverse. Prehaps this was because all of them were replaced at the same time. And yes - my grandfather worked on Merlin-engined tanks in Germany post-war, so the difference was known here! Link to post Share on other sites
flybytes 34 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Surely a bit of 21st technology can overcome the problem! As a 20th century technician-engineer I would hope that those of today are as resourceful as others in history, or am I comparing todays degree qualified engineers with mostly yesterdays apprentice HNC/HND technician-engineers? Ray. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Surely a bit of 21st technology can overcome the problem! As a 20th century technician-engineer I would hope that those of today are as resourceful as others in history, or am I comparing todays degree qualified engineers with mostly yesterdays apprentice HNC/HND technician-engineers? The problem, as always, is the difference between what's technically possible and what's economically feasible. There's often a great gulf between the two. John Link to post Share on other sites
rob16584 42 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 That's too bad Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 The Merlin fitted to the tanks was renamed the Meteor, there have been a few cars with those things fitted. Not allways successfully! https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=merlin+engined+cars&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=-EUDVL6IC4jD7AbR14CwAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=864#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=avyJdnbQxJtQwM%253A%3BYmM1ImQCK5QZ1M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fassets.blog.hemmings.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2007%252F01%252Fbeast_resized.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fblog.hemmings.com%252Findex.php%252F2007%252F01%252F16%252F27-liters-and-nearly-as-many-headlamps%252F%3B450%3B208 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=merlin+engined+cars&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=-EUDVL6IC4jD7AbR14CwAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=864#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=0rc6gZIi_VOGRM%253A%3Bh7UFYNjGtxjsCM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.spainvia.com%252FMerlin4.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.spainvia.com%252Fmerlincar.htm%3B1763%3B1097 http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/modern/38789d1299770182t-v12-packard-merlin-55-chev-whole-car.jpg Link to post Share on other sites
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