Primarily for general aviation discussion, but other aviation topics are also welcome.
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By Ian Melville
#1301424
Rather than scaling up it would be easier to copy the original like for like. Do the original construction drawings for the Fury still exist?
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By Flintstone
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#1301446
Dunno. Who'd have them?
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By Keef
#1301467
Has to be worth a try...

HAWKER SIDDELEY AVIATION LIMITED
Warwick House,
P.O. Box 87,
Farnborough Aerospace Centre,
Farnborough,
Hants GU14 6YU

You could pop in on the way home...
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By Korenwolf
#1301478
Hawker drawings are very, very scarce. Guy Black of Aero Vintage would have the most of anyone, and he has to improvise a fair bit because a lot of vital info just isn't around.

You can always come and run a bit of string over our Hawker Nimrod, Flinty.... :D
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By Genghis the Engineer
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#1301481
For a lot of aeroplanes, a full set of design drawings may never have existed - the manufacturing jigs in effect fulfilled that function. In any case, a lot of the materials in use wouldn't exist any more (anybody know a current supplier for Duralumin? Whale oil lubricants? many woods that were in use 40+ years ago may well now be endangered and unavailable.)

My approach would be to negotiate access to a known good aeroplane, measure it up, scale the external shape, then design new internal structure using suitable modern materials, sized as required for the stresses I want it to be able to take, which may well be different to the original anyhow. External plans for the known good aeroplane would make that a lot easier, and those at-least should exist. Modern materials may make it possible to design a much simpler internal structure than existed previously - again, 40+ years ago labour was cheap and materials were expensive, but now it's the other way around, which flavours how you'd want to design something.

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