Today Feb. 1, I leave for Holland to trade our Halifax 3D printed propeller in a crate – 13 feet in diameter when assembled, created by member Andy Ward, to the good people of Schiermonnikoog, Holland for their 15 feet of Halifax horizontal stabilizer tail section.

Hotels – airlines – food – truck rental – transport — I figure easy $2,000. for this little trade, Halifax do Not grow on trees in case you were thinking of donating to keep us going on this Halifax pilgrimage!

Then the next day, I will be off to the ARG 1940-1945 Air War Museum just north of Amsterdam to organize the shipping to Canada of the Halifax parts we traded for and now have stored there. That includes half a Halifax rudder, main landing gear structural pieces, and 7 main spar wing joints – all needed for our Halifax rebuild in Canada!

But first I want to share a mini-adventure and “give you the scoop – literally”. Get it, Ian Hinks – son of Jackie, find a scoop – get a scoop – give them a scoop! Joke yeah?

Soooo, last week Scott Knox, our chief engineer for the rebuild of our Halifax heavy bomber, is on Facebook surfin’ and shoppin’, – looking at an aircraft parts page.

He mutters something like “”what the heck” – or another word that ends in “k” and phones me and says look at that — “WHAT does that look like to you?!” I also muttered this same phrase that ended in a “k”.

Then I looked and looked at all my Halifax bomber photos and cowlings and said “hell yes”!

So, I got on the phone to Steve in northern California and asked him how could he have a left-over parts from a Short SOLENT giant flying boat, with Hercules 637 radial engines, when they were built in Northern Ireland in the 1950’s!

He said there were 2 Solents scrapped many years ago in Oakland , California and this was all that was left, a solitary air intake -airscoop. Cold turkey – without a waranty – I bought said air intake and said fire it to me.

So it arrived yesterday in the land of oil and flatness, in Nanton at BCMC — this you will see now in my series of pics of our “aluminium boomerang” – shaped like an air intake, that fits exactly a Halifax bomber!

Of course, I buy all my British built Halifax bomber air intakes in California, the people are so nice there. And I got it on sale!!

But soon you will see the big picture with the Halifax Project. In the near future we will need your support more than ever!

Please donate in 2024 for our Bomber Boys – in their honour – for their sacrifice.

More reports later, as the this exciting week and month of HALIFAX hunting – gathering continues.

WE LEAVE NO HALIFAX BEHIND.

K