Bristol Hercules Engines Arrive for Halifax LW170 Project

[peter]

Just in time for Nov11th, Engines #2 and #3 arrived at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada today. These are 0-time rebuilt and inhibited Hercules 216s from John Robson in Preston UK this makes a complete set of 4 runnable hercules engines for the Halifax LW170 project!

[Michel Lemieux]

Wow Peter........

2 runnable Hercules engines!!!!!!!

Tks for sharing.....

But it begs the question. Any updates on the actual reccovery of LW170?

http://www.57rescuecanada.com/tablet/index.html

Was it actually found? Any pictures?

[Jeff H]

If I were driving down the road and that trailer passed me I would either lose control of the car or follow it to who knows where it was heading. Excellent news.

Cheers,

jeff

[peter]

Michael they are hoping to get survey work done next year on LW170

3 of the 4 runnable Hercules engine's with the 4th under restoration.