Barry's Westland Whirlwind - Flight #3

Barry's Whirlwind flight number 3 with an engine failure at the end - ALL good though. Well done Brad.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Whirlwind
• Westland
• RC
• Radio
• Control
• PILBARA
• AEROMODELLERS

[carmium]

Why such a nice plane and leave it gray with roundels? Did it ever get painted up nicely?

[keithrussell]

@carmium Barry is a builder and has about 4 scratch built and plan build machines going at any one time and YES it is now painted in camo' but haven't seen it fly in the finished scheme yet!

[earlyhemibill]

Am drawing a set of plans for this plane for controline at about 67" for a pair of oS .30s. Will do scratch retracts. The way yours bounces on landings looks like they must be shock absorbing. Nice job, Bill

[keithrussell]

The U/C was a temporary fixed set that Barry put together. The spongy part could be explained by the use of the old AUSSIE rubber thong as a base mount! We are encouraging Barry to get her back into the air and he will. New paint job and retracts to come, if he would only slow down building his other planes .... Tiger Moth, Husky (an ARF .... unusual for Barry as he is a scratch builder) ...........

[Mikey4lock]

Thanks for this Vid Barry. Great to see her in flight, after all your hard work. Did you say the U/C was fixed I can't remember. But when all is said and done she is absolutly wonderful.

[keithrussell]

It's fixed at the moment but he is working on the retracts (hand made again!). He just wanted to try it in the air first to save the making of them ..... just in case!

[pete2778]

A masterful example of flying there, particularly on a model with such widely spaced engines. It sounds good too but I'd be too chicken to build a Whirlwind with anything other than electric motors for fear of wrecking it when an engine stopped. A brave and worthwhile effort, well done Barry!

[spyinthesky]

Lovely model. Actually the Peregrines were not as unreliable as myth suggests. They suffered from overheating on the ground due to the radiator design but as long as that didn't cause damage in its own right then in the air they were pretty reliable by all accounts. Unfortunately as the ultimate Kestrel they were towards their development limit and the Mk 2 version was cancelled as RR concentrated on the Merlin. Originally the P was considered the safe option while M reliability was solved.

[kolbpilot]

At 52, and thinking I knew a lot about planes for a while now, I didn't learn of the Whirlwind 'til a couple of years ago. Simply fantastic design. No doubt, the British, (this coming from a Dutch/American) were just as on top of creative designing as anyone else during the 'Big Show". If anything, the 'Tommys' knew a thing or two when it came to building twin engine aircraft. As with a lot of fine designs, the Whirlwinds' engines disappointed.

[NVanWendy]

Those Rolls Royce peregrines were too damn unreliable - even in a scale model!

[Mikey4lock]

Yes The U/C would be good if it did retract .But I understood this plane was going static after a couple of flights anyway. Still great job on this aeroplane well done !