Warbird Information Exchange

As a new member,I have taken on board your comments about spammers and have therefore taken this opportunity to introduce myself.I am a mechanic of many years standing working on one particular type of vehicle. [the manufacturer of which made also one only airplane] I was taught how to use a lathe and mill by the late Paul Jameson more years ago than I care to mention.I went with him on a few occasions to Blackbush airport and got to know Doug Arnold who very kindly let me sit in his planes.My favorite was and still is the Mosquito.I assisted Paul with the construction of his Rolls Royce Merlin powered cars.Paul had a wonderful collection of merlins on stands in those days.One aircraft which is very largely forgotten is the Westland Whirlwind.This must have been a stunning aircraft,has anyone thought of making one? Were the problems of the Peregrine understood and were they fixable?

There is a group working on just such a project as we speak:

http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org/

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthre ... ct-Updates

Thank you that is fascinating.Pity that it is not to fly but it is a start.There is an engine in the museum near goodwood.

According to the curator of the aircraft museum "near Goodwood" they do not have an example of the Peregrine V12 Rolls Royce engine.I am 100% certain that I have seen a good condition RR Peregrine engine in a museum in the south of england.I had never heard of this type of small RR engine until I saw this example.Can any one help me find it? Please !

I couldn't find any current pictures of a surviving RR Peregrine engine (only 300 produced). Could you be thinking of a RR Kestrel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Peregrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Kestrel

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Seems like the Peregrine and Kestrel are pretty comparable in size, power and weight. One might make a decent substitute for the other.

the Peregrine was based on the Kestrel, but cranked out 885 Bhp. As the merlin was a more powerful engine, development was cemtred on that and they only produced enough Peregrines for the Whirlwind production run (116 planes)

Sadly no ! The sign for the engine definately called it a Peregrine.I am fairly familiar with the Kestrel /R / and Merlin.[ I have worked on Merlins.]