Waiting Room, page-14

JnJ
Thanks for that, I've always wondered how that sleeve valve arrangement worked. I think there's a Beau restore to fly project going on in Victoria but will use Pratt n Witneys instead of Hercules engines. A lot of the Aussie Beaus were built with Pratts because the sleeves valves in the Hercules wore out too quickly in the dusty Oz environment. Another fascinating British aero engine was the Napier Sabre which, I think, also had sleeve valves. A Hawker tempest is being restored to fly by Kermit Weekes in the US and getting the Sabre engine running again is a mission for someone as nobody knows the firing order for the horizontally opposed 24 cylinder two plug per pot engine.

Re the rigs, they are on site and even if there is a no pay until permission agreement surely the movement was prompted by a hint of permission coming through? If not immediately then immanently, meaning...soon...ish?
And you're right, pollies are spineless fools.
Especially the current lot, in the West, there's nobody who stands out, they're all invertebrates.

Zen.