Aircraft in danger

Thanks Mark,

Fascinating how projects such as these start out. What happened to the wings of BL370?

Are they going to go on another flyer?

Cheers

Cees

Cees,

My understanding is the the wing, or more properly the wing leading edge, went with the project to the US.

Mark

Thanks Mark,

Fascinating how projects such as these start out. What happened to the wings of BL370?

Are they going to go on another flyer?

Cheers

Cees

Mark,

Wasn’t this aircraft subject of a dispute between someone who claimed ownership of the wreck before recovery and the group that restored the fuselage. IIRC the airframe was recovered from mudflats, any pics of the wreckage before or after recovery?

Cheers

Cees

Cees,

Dispute. Yes now that you mention it, I believe there was. It probably involved an un-anticipated increase in value over a time frame. 😉

Here is a shot out on the mud flats of Ouse Marsh in the 1970’s. The diggers being Messrs Cantin & Shaw. The wing was the best bit and substantial. The fuselage was pretty ‘wretched’ but all the Fuselage lower firewall and spar was there. Quite a lot of ‘cast off’ skins and frames were used from ‘rebuilds to flight’ at that time. All part of the food chain both up and down (Setter please note).

Photo by Sid Finn.

Mark

PS It would be a candidate for a restoration to flight by today’s standards.

Looked pretty real to me as I saw the fuselage being rebuilt in the UK. These shots were taken March 1994. It is reconstructed from a recovered crash wreck and multitudes of original fixtures and fittings.

The wings certainly are not to spec and were made in the US by ‘Starr Engineering’ or similar name.

I never really understood why Pat Taylor, who financed the Spitfire in New Orleans, didn’t have the wings built in the UK.

Mark

Mark,

Wasn’t this aircraft subject of a dispute between someone who claimed ownership of the wreck before recovery and the group that restored the fuselage. IIRC the airframe was recovered from mudflats, any pics of the wreckage before or after recovery?

Cheers

Cees

Seems that fortunately the hurricane was not as severe as predicted. If it’s a modern building, one would hope that it was designed to withstand hurricane force winds. As the Spitfire was suspended, I’d hope it would be safe from the floods!

The real McCoy?

This and the Avenger are reproductions, not real ones (thank goodness).

TNZ

Looked pretty real to me as I saw the fuselage being rebuilt in the UK. These shots were taken March 1994. It is reconstructed from a recovered crash wreck and multitudes of original fixtures and fittings.

The wings certainly are not to spec and were made in the US by ‘Starr Engineering’ or similar name.

I never really understood why Pat Taylor, who financed the Spitfire in New Orleans, didn’t have the wings built in the UK.

Mark

The D-Day Museum, a new modern museum in central New Orleans.

The Spitfire is suspended.

Mark

This and the Avenger are reproductions, not real ones (thank goodness).

TNZ

Makes me wonder why the hell Kermit keeps his stuff in Florida, he already had some of his collection trashed once…

Just watching the news about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, wondering if there are any classic/museum aircraft in danger of being damaged by the severe storm.

Anyone know ?

Cheers
TNZ
PS I’ll check on WIX too.

Also in Louisiana

But Katrina looks like a nasty girl so anything on the Gulf Coast and for a ways inland may be threatened.

Rob / Kansan

hmm,….that ain’t great
Apparently it has an Avenger too.

TNZ

The D-Day Museum, a new modern museum in central New Orleans.

The Spitfire is suspended.

Mark