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By: - 5th July 2010 at 18:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hello Cees, Chaz Bowyer's 'Hampden Special' has three pages of excellent interior shots and is printed on the glossy paper that shows the detail. ISBN 0 7110 0683 0 or I could scan them for you. It even has a photo showing the pneumatic firing button mounted half way up the control column. Not ideal ergonomics!
By: - 5th July 2010 at 18:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Heres a photo of the cockpit from a wartime book.
Dave
By: - 6th July 2010 at 18:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thanks chaps,
I have the Chaz Bowyer book as well as the other books available but I am looking for better information regarding the frames and stringers of the fuselage as well as the centresection of the fuselage where the WOP had his office.
Cheers
Cees
By: - 7th July 2010 at 17:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Excellent John,
Thanks very much, this is what I'm after. Perhaps Hampden (you know the chap restoring the Hampden at East Kirky) has some similar pics to complete things.
Cheers
Cees
By: - 9th July 2010 at 11:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hi Cees,
I have an old issue of SAM (Nov 1991) which covers the build of Contrails 1/48 vacform kit which I can copy and email as .jpeg's if its of interest.
I know its not the scale you're building, its all black & white and predominantly a pictorial and doesn't cover much of the interior but if it'll be of interest, I'm happy to scan and email it to you over the weekend!
(Another HP product - puts hands in head and shakes it from side to side :D )
Cheers
By: - 9th July 2010 at 11:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great post there John, when I was looking at the Radlett info I found something on a HP sytem on building aircraft in two halves at Cricklewood, to make onward journey to final assembly at Radlett easier, the info in your post is the first reference I've seen to that.
By: - 9th July 2010 at 18:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Without this process it would have been impossible for the workers to fit the various items inside.
Cheers
Cees
By: - 11th July 2010 at 17:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Seeing this reminded me of a book my grandfather gave me when I was but a small boy, but was the catalyst for my interest in things that fly and float, from a book called 'How things are made', may not be of any help but I thought it may be of interest
Cheers
PaulC
By: - 11th July 2010 at 17:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
2 pics from last August....higher res available...PM if you would like them
By: - 11th July 2010 at 17:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Just remembered these as well, but don't know whose pics, so credit to whomever !
Amend- - - -Senility rules.......don't know how a He111 pic was filed as a Hampden........I've removed it from the post, well spotted guys
Rgds
DC
By: - 11th July 2010 at 18:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Excellent detail, but isn't the first pic the inside of an He111?
By: - 11th July 2010 at 18:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Excellent detail, but isn't the first pic the inside of an He111?
ooops .... without doubt He111 Ian :)
By: - 12th July 2010 at 16:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thanks chaps,
Excellent pics.
Cheers
Cees
By: - 12th July 2010 at 16:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I've never seen this written about the Hampden before, '...The machine which is one of the finest specimens of aeronautical engineering in any air force in the world,'!
Remind me when I'm building the Airfix Hampden and Halifax, not to fill and sand down the fusalage halves joint line!:)
By: - 12th July 2010 at 18:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Looks really great.........Does the project need any fittings or anything for the cockpit?
By: - 13th July 2010 at 19:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I've never seen this written about the Hampden before, '...The machine which is one of the finest specimens of aeronautical engineering in any air force in the world,'!Remind me when I'm building the Airfix Hampden and Halifax, not to fill and sand down the fusalage halves joint line!:)
The halifax and Hampden nose sections were split horizontally with a top and bottom section joined by the main longerons. The Hampden had a vertically split rear fuselage and tail, the Halifax did not (part of that was still horizontally split and the rear bay was one complete section).
Cees
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By: CeBro - 5th July 2010 at 14:14
Hello chaps,
I am about to start on a 1/32 Hampden model using a vacform as a companion to my ongoing 1/32 Halifax build (not mentioning the 1:1 cockpit)
Structural details of the interior are a bit scarce. I have found some pics showing the exterior of the Cosford restoration but no real interior shots.
Anyone of you on the forum (Hampden perhaps) have access to a few?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Cees