Category: Everything Flying

Drilling skin to skeleton …


Aligning the skin and skeleton in the jig …


Stiffeners


Le Bourget … Engine Collection …

Quite a collection of antique engines … unfortunately the display is poorly signposted so one has little idea what one is looking at …


Le Bourget … French Experimentals …

Some weird and wonderful experimental aircraft I’ve never seen before.

Literally a glass cockpit stuck on the front end of a humongous jet engine …

You can’t see it in the picture, but that tube running along the underside makes a right angle at the tail end and terminates as a shower head – after-burner no doubt.


Le Bourget … 747 …

Cute idea to cut away parts of the cabin to reveal the inner workings of the 747.


Le Bourget … Concorde …

France’s Air and Space Museum is located at one of the Paris airports, where the annual Paris Airshow takes place. It has seen better times, somewhat dusty and tatty, but some cool exhibits none-the-less. The Concorde exhibit features 2 ships – #001 the flight testing platform still equipped with it’s ’60s era instrumentation.

#001 still needs a drip pan to catch the “stuff” dripping out of it’s underside.


Ready for the glop …


Leaky fuel tank …

In the process of taking the tank out I found an old mouse nest from the days when I was building at the North end of the field.


Thinking, absorbing, calculating

The electric trim tab makes the left elevator a bit more involved.