BACK FROM THE DEAD

At a private location near the New Zealand capital Auckland, a father and son are painstakingly resurrecting unique surviving examples of two British aircraft from the inter-war years — a Vickers Vincent and Blackburn Baffin VINCENT AND BAFFIN RESTORATIONS Vickers Vincent K6357/NZ311 on a rare venture outside at the Subritzky family’s premises at Dairy Flat, just north of Auckland. How many times have we heard the refrain, “If only we’d saved one of those”? How could they have burnt a