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Old 12-11-20, 19:16
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Those are part of the goggles Bruce, my eyebrows are blonde so nobody can see my eyebrows!
Now you’ve done it Rob, my Uncle Ken trained in Anson’s and now you have me interested in recovering that damn wreck and bringing it home. But how the hell am I going to get it into the basement? Would be a great place to sit in the cockpit in the morning and have my cup of coffee ( wearing the flying helmet of course!)
And now the wheels of my brain are spinning!
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Old 12-11-20, 19:37
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Having known you for this many years Derk, it is hard to know if you are kidding or not.

Get the windows back into the cockpit, and attach it to the house near the deck. Tell the wife it is a green house.
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Old 12-11-20, 21:39
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But how the hell am I going to get it into the basement?
Dig down and put a second level of basement under the house? It all depends on being high enough above the water table and flood plain that the added "below waterline" space doesn't float you away in the spring floods.
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Old 12-11-20, 22:06
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Dig down and put a second level of basement under the house? It all depends on being high enough above the water table and flood plain that the added "below waterline" space doesn't float you away in the spring floods.
With all that talk of water this thread will surely drift off to PT boats or landing craft.

But back to Ansons. Here's the original British and Canadian wood one I made models of decades ago and can't bring myself to end their lives with firecrackers like I used to.
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Old 13-11-20, 14:03
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When I was a kid a local farmer had a hulk in the corner of a field and we boys would visit it for some imaginative play or to cut off bits for home built go carts etc. They were quite common around the country side. I have a friend who has several stashed in trailers waiting to win the lottery so he can proceed with restoration. Some were fitted with English Cheetah engines which rotated CW, which is opposite to North American engines. Many of the single blade props you find in antique shops are ex Anson. Most of these came from the Ernie Simmons sale -some 30 engines and 100 propellers, in 1970. If you have never read this story google " The Ernie Simmons Story - Spitfire Emporium". You will enjoy the story and photos. Sorry we are a little off topic again.

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