Super Guppy Restoration

[Gaz]

some nice shots of my car in that second vid!!


I've been in, fairly, sunny Dorset for a week

[Gaz]

www.superguppy.co.uk went past 7000 hits whilst I was away!

SBA deserves a lot of praise!

[Gaz]

Radome has been moved to the Beech restoration hangar TO START THE WORK NEEDED ON IT!!!

Got tired of waiting for a definite answer from the French, so, we're using, the best part of £500 from our open day takings to pay the Beech lads to do it!!

DEFINITELY be done by the August open day. Should have it back within a couple of weeks.

[Xplumberlives]

I'll do it for £375:00

[Gaz]

I'll do it for £375:00

Can you fibreglass, mate?

[Xplumberlives]

I'll do it for £375:00

Can you fibreglass, mate?

Oh yes!

There is a bay on camp that specialise in that sort of thing!

[Gaz]

Now, all I need to do is find a way of getting it there/back!


It doesn't fit in my boot

[Dan4th]

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Danf.

[Gaz]

Thanks for that, Mr. West.


I've still not seen a video of "our" Guppy in flight.

[Dan4th]

That is precisely what I've been looking for!

D.

[Gaz]

I know Andy (320psi) has some stills from when she flew in, but, I've never seen a video.

Believe me, I've looked!

[Gaz]

Another finished section





Had a wander over to the Beech hangar to see if I could see the radome. It's in their, undercover, outdoor workshop, so I managed to get a peek. They've made a start, the inside has been re-skinned already. It looks like they're building up layers. I don't think it's going to take them long

[Gaz]

Well, since I've been off, the radome has gone from this:




To this:




To this:




To this:





To say I'm a little bit proud, would be a MAHOOSIVE understatement!

[Kermit]

No wonder you re pleased, it looks great ! Will have a closer look next CWJ day, but it seems to have been well worth doing. She is looking better and better , well done

[Gaz]

No wonder you re pleased, it looks great ! Will have a closer look next CWJ day, but it seems to have been well worth doing. She is looking better and better , well done

Thank you!

Without you, and everyone else who visited us at the last CWJ day, this couldn't have been done. I'm incredibly grateful!

[Xplumberlives]

New chin looks great Mate, just waiting for some pillock to ram it with some steps!

[RLN]

Looks great, Gaz.

[Gaz]

Cheers!


Closer upper one:

[MOD]

What's next on the agenda gaz?


ibw

[Dan4th]

And also, is that the colo(u)r it
will remain or will you paint it
some other hue?

Danf.

[Gaz]

We'll leave it at the high gloss white, at least, until it weathers. Then it'll probably revert to grey.

Next up, the repair at the rear of the fuselage needs solid riveting (Next few weeks), the nose leg is scheduled for repair before the end of the year (hopefully before the end of the summer) and, in the next month or so, myself and a few of the Beech lads will start acid etching her belly, then she'll be painted light grey from the cheat line down, all the way round.


And there's always coloured bands to paint

[Wedgy]

Had a lot of catching up to do on this thread .... looks great

[Sickbag_andy]

Had a lot of catching up to do on this thread .... looks great

and now I've done some catching up as well, finally managed to do an update on the superguppy website, link at the bottom of the home page www.superguppy.co.uk

I hope the wait has been worthwhile, most of the info has been posted here by Gaz but I've put it all together on one page, apologies for my adopting a Lord Lucan status

[Gaz]

It seems like a lot when you read it back!

Cheers, SBA

[Jigsaw]

Took me a while to catch up on this as well PROGRESS is great. It's good there are people like you around to do this Gaz I've said it before and wish I could get involved
For Andy too obviously.

Well done and keep up the good work