A wander around Duxford

James,
I think you’ll find that the answer to your question will be a surprising NO.

Thank you for the info about shot 5 😎 so its the Silver Spitfire will it stay in them colours?

all the best
James

guess it must be SM969 then!

Correct there. And coming together nicely by the looks.

guess it must be SM969 then!

MkXVIII – unless they’ve glued the XIV’s wingtips back on.

Hi, aircraft in picture 5 is possably either a lowback mk14 or mk18.

So maybe someone dropped the ball as it is quite a historic airframe?, but they have do more than ever with it in the last few months than they had done in the years they have had her.

curlyboy

Her “ex-driver” did very well for himself in the USAF and NASA, maybe someone has invited him to Legends and the museum have decided to fix the Thud up? Will the Thud be at Legends?

Sorry.:rolleyes: 🙂

Finally 100 posts.

Scott,

It could just well be that VP293 is in fact homeless per se, spending it’s time lodging with various museums/groups around the country as the owner resides in the USA.

And/or it could [possibly] be helping with the restoration of the other Shack’ ?

Cheers for that, I was just wondering if anybody knew of why it was there, as I was under the impression it was resident at Norwich museum. Having said that, it seems to have done the rounds a wee bit in recent years.

As has been said by Pagen01, I do know the Mk1 / 3 cockpits were significantly different, so would be surprised if it was anything to do with the restoration of XF708. I’ve a few Mk2 cockpit bits and pieces here, and they are totally different from the Mk 3, notably the stick/yoke.

Good to see one is under cover though, and the other one is getting attention.

Regards,
Scotty 🙂

Very interesting idea, not sure it will catch on……

Apologise, the shack cockpit is with us because were starting our own cockpit collection. The idea is to cut the cockpit sections off all of our fighters and stick’em on a flatbed:D 😮

I guess I still look back on how the victor was kept electrically live a few years back and then it all seemed to fall apart from there. Once she is repainted and repaired, it would be neat if she could be reactivated electrically.I know dreamiing on that one!

I was talking to a guy who now is involved with Classic Wings but had worked on the Victor before and he was saying inside she is still in great condition inside from the days where she was lit up.

Has the restoration of the F-105 Thunderchief actually started or is it just a survey?

According to a THUD website i found while trying to settle a query with Phantom Phixer it said that the USAFM list the airframe has already been restored by IWM!!!

So maybe someone dropped the ball as it is quite a historic airframe?, but they have do more than ever with it in the last few months than they had done in the years they have had her.

http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/hangar/2002/thud/thud.htm

curlyboy

Scott,
And/or it could [possibly] be helping with the restoration of the other Shack’ ?
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I doubt there is a single componant that is the same between a T.4 and an MR.3 forward fusalage, even the instrumentation is very different.

Its a shame it has been repainted in MOTU colours as this is what the Flambards one wears, even down to the seal motif (code letter seems familier aswel). When it was in the white MR.1 scheme it was totally unique on a preserved Shackleton.

Peter, I believe it is still possible to make here once again ‘live’ with the help of batteries but it would take time and money and i don’t think there is enough of that. Having said that the ‘Bucc’ is still ‘live’ so perhaps its possible… This though is idle speculation…

re

[QUOTE=Ant Harrington;1179487]Easy tiger 😀 It’s just for a few days, according to the Duxford Update site the restoration area of the Airspace hangar is being used for some kind of (corporate?) event this week.

http://www.duxford-update.info/

Why on earth stick a conference in there? With no a/c in it, its just a big empty hangar! I can understand putting an event on in the officers mess. Besides dont they have purpose built fuction rooms on airspace now?

Scott,

It could just well be that VP293 is in fact homeless per se, spending it’s time lodging with various museums/groups around the country as the owner resides in the USA.

And/or it could [possibly] be helping with the restoration of the other Shack’ ?

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VP293 is here because it can be here.

Thanks for that very enlightened and informative reply :rolleyes:

Oh its that one 😀 thanks Brian

James

Some reason Robbo post it not up on me screen:confused: ok thanks so its a Spitfire MKII?

James

Not quite See Here

Brian

Random guess, Spitfire?

Some reason Robbo post it not up on me screen:confused: ok thanks so its a Spitfire MKII?

James