Recent content by btaylor

I'm in Drumheller, here we're more likely to try and reconstruct a dinosaur than a Merlin. I'm always interested in hearing a Merlin though :-)

Heh, I'm a Canuck in training! Been in Alberta for 6 years but am a Brit. Thanks for welcome ;-)

Hi all Just like to say hello and slink back into obscurity. My grandfather Leslie Martin was an experimental engineer with RR, Napier among others, and deeply involved in development of engines during WW2 and also had an interesting career before that, was the young engineer who should have...

Hello, I just found this post, so apologies for its resurrection! This may have been the '70' that my Grandfather, then a flight test engineer, "collected" from Germany with Ronnie Harker. I remember him talking about the Heinkel having a stuck undercarriage and that he was flying over his home...