Man Has to Knock Down Wall to Get Plane Out of His House

G-AWMN · Post by **G-AWMN** » Sat May 28, 2011 10:14 am

http://gizmodo.com/5806206/man-has-to-k ... -his-house

I like the idear of the glass floor/ceiling. Think I might suggest to my other half that a glass wall to the workshop would be a good thing so that she can better see where most of the monthly disposable income is going!

Stuart Penfold

macconnacher · Post by **macconnacher** » Sat May 28, 2011 1:17 pm

How about this nostalgia?
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=35913

ffg · Post by **ffg** » Sun May 29, 2011 9:36 am

Brilliant!!

Is that the first ever Taylor Titch?

Brian Hope · Post by **Brian Hope** » Sun May 29, 2011 12:06 pm

Don't you just love the jolly music that accompanies Pathe News films! It's actually the first Taylor Monoplane, which is still flying and is operated by Richard Keech.
The Monoplane first flew in 1959, the Titch did not fly until 1967.

Nick Allen · Post by **Nick Allen** » Sun May 29, 2011 4:37 pm

There are some photos here of a guy building a Xenos motorglider in New Jersey townhouse, and removing it therefrom:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52501459@N07/sets/

bri663 · Post by **bri663** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:48 am

Did he name the second design after the test pilot "Titch Holmes" or is that just a coincidence?

macconnacher · Post by **macconnacher** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:34 pm

The answer is Yes
John was working on another design I think called the todller but very little is known about it. He stopped work on it to enter a design in the Rollason Racer competition whch was won by the Luton Beta -the Corby Starlet also came from that competition.

Bill McCarthy · Post by **Bill McCarthy** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:32 pm

The Luton Beta was a worthy winner. I just wonder if there are any abandoned dusty projects of it lying forgotten somewhere ! I still recall the flight test report in an old PFA mag on one carried out by Roly Beamont. He rated it high in the top ten of all the types he had ever flown. Damn that example "Blue Chip" looked good when I saw it at Sywell many many moons ago.

rans6andrew · Post by **rans6andrew** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:57 pm

Needs Must!

The idea is not new, the Colditz Glider was built in an attic room and required a wall to be removed before it could be extracted.

macconnacher · Post by **macconnacher** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:17 am

The Colditz Cock was built by one of our late members Bill Goldsmith who later built a Luton Minor. I see from Aeroplane that a replica has been built for display at Colditz.

It of course never got out of the attic and was believed to have been broken up and used as firewood after the war.

If any of you remember 1947 (i don't) the whole of Europe froze and fuel to heat homes was in short supply which is why there were a few trees removed in the middle of the night by my dad and others to keep this then one year old from freezing.

Ian Melville · Post by **Ian Melville** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:50 pm

A replica Colditz Cock has actually flown in the UK. Is this the one now at Colditz?

Bill Scott · Post by **Bill Scott** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:00 pm

I was at Colditz a couple of weeks ago. There is a scale (33%?) replica hanging in the museum section there. NO full scale copy thus far.
I heartily recommend a visit if you are ever across there. A great deal of the evidence of escape attempts has been deliberately preserved.

Rob Swain · Post by **Rob Swain** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:59 pm

Best Colditz story I heard was there were some ex-inmates who visited many years later.
They went in to one of the rooms, lifted a floorboard and pulled out a radio.
Jerry had never known it was there.