Hey Chris - Were you ever at the Kingston plant? I was an engineering apprentice at Hawker's in Kingston (1956-7), plated cockpit parts for the Hunter, did paint tests for the wing and tailplane panels, and ended up metallurgical testing of steel components in the test lab - learned so much there!
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Mitchell Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2017 2:03 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO: WH 17 Very good Dan - and through a canopy too? They used to make canopies for Hawker Hunters, Harriers and Hawks in the aircraft factory where I did my apprenticeship. Very specialised and I remember seeing a bloody great sheet of hot Perspex being draped over a greasy wooden mould. It was then subject to a lot of polishing to make it optically perfect and to remove any distortion - after all, the pilot ideally would want to see the target / runway in the right place.. It took many hours. Chris On 15 May 2017 at 04:10, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > An image from back in the day: > > https://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2017/5/14/wh-17 > Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, smc Super-Takumar 50 mm F 1.4 Comments are > invited and apprecated. > > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
