Another ex Air Cadet here who learned to fly in one of these in Shropshire back in the mid sixties. Would love to try flying one again - it was a fun airplane! Thanks for the memories ...
Spent many hours working on the Chipmunk in my early years in the RAF, 1st and 2nd line maintenance, the only challenging part of the maintenance was setting up the elevator trim rigging, and then only because you had to take out the rear seat and get into the aft fuselage to work on it with any ease, you could have it perfectly rigged and tensioned and the re-wirelock the turnbuckles and the independent assessor would come along check the tension and it would be completely out of tension again, the slightest pull on the cables would just change all the hard work. So much for an electric starter, never ever had a problem starting with the cartridge starter or hand swinging the prop.
Nice one, I found rigging the rudder pedal brakes properly to only come on with two clicks of the park brake quite fun again because of access and it being a completely alien concept having a system like that. What else did you get stuck into?
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Hi, I had forgotten about the brakes, yeah weird set up but it was effective. To be honest I was lucky to have a very varied career, from the BFTS at Cranwell I went n my fitters (technician) course at RAF Halton but after that I worked at the aircraft storage facility at RAF Shawbury, we had Jaguars, Buccaneers, Hunters, Beavers, Bulldogs, and Jet Provost aircraft, quite boring really, mostly anti deterioration servicing and the occasional return to service procedures, then on to Gutersloh on Puma and Chinook 2nd line working in the airframe repair team, but funnily when my Father came to visit it turned out that he worked in the same hangar, same work bay, and he thought the paint was the same as it was in the early 60s, from there to RAF Lynham on the Hercules, and during gulf war1 we had to lift a floor board to find a leak, what we actually found was a mummified baby crocodile/alligator (true story) had it on my desk for weeks, then back to Germany ,RAF Bruggen on Tornado GR1s and then finally to RAF Odiham on 27 and 18 Sqn puma and Chinooks finally bein discharged in 2003 after 24 years, also did many detachments around the world, the usual Falklands, Gulf, and balkans, but also went to America, Austria, Slovakia, Italy etc etc, and that in as few chapters was my RAF career. How about your good self? 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
DH support at Duxford can probably help with the manuals if you send them an email, can't remember if there's a dedicated SRM, there are probably other Canadian manuals but I've never seen them. Alternatively try the dhc 1 club or Facebook group.
I flew this particular aircraft (1350) four times during my initial pilot training back in late1975/early 76 out of Ota Air Base (PoAF AB2).
Another ex Air Cadet here who learned to fly in one of these in Shropshire back in the mid sixties. Would love to try flying one again - it was a fun airplane! Thanks for the memories ...
Spent many hours working on the Chipmunk in my early years in the RAF, 1st and 2nd line maintenance, the only challenging part of the maintenance was setting up the elevator trim rigging, and then only because you had to take out the rear seat and get into the aft fuselage to work on it with any ease, you could have it perfectly rigged and tensioned and the re-wirelock the turnbuckles and the independent assessor would come along check the tension and it would be completely out of tension again, the slightest pull on the cables would just change all the hard work. So much for an electric starter, never ever had a problem starting with the cartridge starter or hand swinging the prop.
Nice one, I found rigging the rudder pedal brakes properly to only come on with two clicks of the park brake quite fun again because of access and it being a completely alien concept having a system like that. What else did you get stuck into?
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Hi, I had forgotten about the brakes, yeah weird set up but it was effective. To be honest I was lucky to have a very varied career, from the BFTS at Cranwell I went n my fitters (technician) course at RAF Halton but after that I worked at the aircraft storage facility at RAF Shawbury, we had Jaguars, Buccaneers, Hunters, Beavers, Bulldogs, and Jet Provost aircraft, quite boring really, mostly anti deterioration servicing and the occasional return to service procedures, then on to Gutersloh on Puma and Chinook 2nd line working in the airframe repair team, but funnily when my Father came to visit it turned out that he worked in the same hangar, same work bay, and he thought the paint was the same as it was in the early 60s, from there to RAF Lynham on the Hercules, and during gulf war1 we had to lift a floor board to find a leak, what we actually found was a mummified baby crocodile/alligator (true story) had it on my desk for weeks, then back to Germany ,RAF Bruggen on Tornado GR1s and then finally to RAF Odiham on 27 and 18 Sqn puma and Chinooks finally bein discharged in 2003 after 24 years, also did many detachments around the world, the usual Falklands, Gulf, and balkans, but also went to America, Austria, Slovakia, Italy etc etc, and that in as few chapters was my RAF career. How about your good self? 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Great aircraft. My fathers one flew in the king's Cup air race. Kept it at Biggin Hill.
I've flown in that. That's my mates plane.
hello, do you have the SRM of the DHC-1, I can't find anywhere, its for study porpuses, it will save me.
DH support at Duxford can probably help with the manuals if you send them an email, can't remember if there's a dedicated SRM, there are probably other Canadian manuals but I've never seen them.
Alternatively try the dhc 1 club or Facebook group.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 thank you!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here but let me guess... one of you may be an ex air cadet?
ALL MIGHT Ashley who was sorting out the dented wing tip is an ex air cadet, well done!