Entering Lymington Harbour without an engine.

Lovingly created a tissue and balsa wood glider a long long long time ago. I thought it would be a good idea to speed up the dope drying process as I was dying to try out the Jet X. Leaving it fully assembled on the dining room carpet a yard in front of the coal fire was not my finest moment.
 
TSB240 said:
Lovingly created a tissue and balsa wood glider a long long long time ago. I thought it would be a good idea to speed up the dope drying process as I was dying to try out the Jet X. Leaving it fully assembled on the dining room carpet a yard in front of the coal fire was not my finest moment.
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Is Lymington Harbour notorious as a glider landing zone then?
Seems one hell of a thread drift if not.
 
doug748 said:
The Jetex worked on solid fuel much like the space shuttle launchers. As the jet was about 12,000 deg centigrade, not a toy to endear itself to the Health and Safety Executive. Nowt for the feral short trousered, in the 1950's.
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Sounds bit much, surface of the sun is only about 5500C,
 
scotty123 said:
Is Lymington Harbour notorious as a glider landing zone then?
Seems one hell of a thread drift if not.
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Well the whole New Forest was full of temporary airfields for D-Day, my94 yr old Dad was looking after Seafires from Lee on Solent, in the noisy significant event of good against evil in the latest few dozen centuries, probably ever.

Sorry for any thread drift. :)
 
TSB240 said:
Lovingly created a tissue and balsa wood glider a long long long time ago. I thought it would be a good idea to speed up the dope drying process as I was dying to try out the Jet X. Leaving it fully assembled on the dining room carpet a yard in front of the coal fire was not my finest moment.
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Had an 'interesting moment' when one of our blokes was spraying the letters onto a full size aircraft (cellulose paint) since it was cold, he set up an old two bar electric fire to help things dry...... the fumes dropped to the ground and wafted over to the fire. Next thing, we are fighting a blaze from cabin to tail.

The tin of stuff that was mentioned earlier, was probably diesel fuel for a small piston engine, lots of ether in it.
I used Jetex in several kits, good fun. The fuse got used in lots of explosive devices, as one did back then.

As for the risks, two of my class at school, were blown up by a land mine, left over by the army on the ranges near Guildford. We got yearly lectures from the local plod about ordanance at prep school, since we used to go for cross country runs over the areas. Lots of bits lying around then. The rest of us thought the two deceased were a bit dumb for picking up something we all knew was dangerous. Didn't stop another two blokes from bringing in two live morter bombs into the communial study. Would have taken out 60 of us. Army came in and removed them. Again, the rest of us thought they were nuts.
But there was always a fascination with such stuff back in the 50/60s.
 
scotty123 said:
Is Lymington Harbour notorious as a glider landing zone then?
Seems one hell of a thread drift if not.
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No, but when sailing's binned due to no wind, it's sometimes worth looking at Beaulieu Heath on the way home:
http://www.beaulieumodelflying.org.uk/index.html

Back on topic, in light airs, sailing a dinghy into the LTSC river finish line against the tide can be an ordeal.
Whatever you're sailing, watch out for them ferries!
 
lw395 said:
No, but when sailing's binned due to no wind, it's sometimes worth looking at Beaulieu Heath on the way home:
http://www.beaulieumodelflying.org.uk/index.html

Back on topic, in light airs, sailing a dinghy into the LTSC river finish line against the tide can be an ordeal.
Whatever you're sailing, watch out for them ferries!
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Years ago (more than I care to remember), I capsized an Osprey, turned turtle and stuck the mast in the mud just in front of a ferry coming up the river.
 
Seajet said:
Well the whole New Forest was full of temporary airfields for D-Day, my94 yr old Dad was looking after Seafires from Lee on Solent, in the noisy significant event of good against evil in the latest few dozen centuries, probably ever.

Sorry for any thread drift. :)
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Stop me if I'm wrong, but Lee on Solent, isn't the New Forest & neither is Lymington Harbour.
 
lw395 said:
No, but when sailing's binned due to no wind, it's sometimes worth looking at Beaulieu Heath on the way home:
http://www.beaulieumodelflying.org.uk/index.html

Back on topic, in light airs, sailing a dinghy into the LTSC river finish line against the tide can be an ordeal.
Whatever you're sailing, watch out for them ferries!
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Bet you've not noticed the WW1 aerodrome opposite then, at East Boldre just before Hatchet Pond (RFC Beaulieu).

http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/airfields/ebd.html
 
lw395 said:
There's lots of archaeology from many different wars in the area, and I think I was dragged around most of it in my youth! I think most of the better walks around the New Forest are centred on such things, and/or a pub?
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Seems more pilots were killed at RFC Beaulieu than on the Western Front.
 
Elecglitch said:
Do you have a source for this? I have heard that RFC losses in training outnumbered those in action, but that those at one establishment would do so seems a bit extreme.
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There is a Beaulieu airfield historical society, who publish leaflets, can't find a link, but remember reading the high accident death rates. Some information about the site here,
https://nfknowledge.org/contributions/east-boldre-airfield/

Some info on deaths, http://www.eastboldre.org/flyingschoolfatalities.html, but this may be later in the War.

More, http://www.eastboldre.org/airfieldhistoryww1.html

http://www.thenewforestguide.co.uk/history/forest-airfields/beaulieu/royal-flying-corps-beaulieu/
 
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scotty123 said:
There is a Beaulieu airfield historical society, who publish leaflets, can't find a link, but remember reading the high accident death rates. Some information about the site here,
https://nfknowledge.org/contributions/east-boldre-airfield/

Some info on deaths, http://www.eastboldre.org/flyingschoolfatalities.html, but this may be later in the War.

More, http://www.eastboldre.org/airfieldhistoryww1.html

http://www.thenewforestguide.co.uk/history/forest-airfields/beaulieu/royal-flying-corps-beaulieu/
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Thanks, nothing there that indicates casualties anything like the volume those of the RFC on the Western Front. I think I'll chalk that up as a myth.
 
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