Comet airborne!

Some more of Darren’s lovely photographs can be found at the link below, with a little potted history (by no means comprehensive – that comes later!) of the aircraft.

Well done, Shuttleworth!:D

http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/08/01/aviation-news-the-shuttleworth-collections-de-havilland-dh-88-comet-g-acss-returns-to-flight/

For a moment there, I was thinking about a different kind of DH Comet!

Here you go Fouga. 😉

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More here: http://vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot.com.au/2009/10/comet-racer-g-acss.html

Perhaps it’s a new variety of Shuttlemoth?

From this afternoons additional flight – I’m sure DCW will add more.

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Hi All,
Damn it L4x2 you just pipped me to the post well done matey. 😀 Absolutely fantastic news a return to the air for this much loved and missed icon of the air, now all we need do is get fully behind Black Magic so she can join her. :eagerness:

Geoff.

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From this afternoons additional flight – I’m sure DCW will add more.

pics:

https://www.facebook.com/ShuttleworthCollection

Great news. Well done to the Shuttleworth engineering team for making it happen again.

Great news! I’ve never seen her in the air, now there’s a chance.

Adrian

Likewise……. Moth Rally is in two weeks time, so fingers crossed……!!!

A pair of Lancasters and the Comet, all in one weekend. Just too much……!!!

Planemike

I swear she flew more recently on a test flight but damaged the undercarriage on landing :S

She flew at Duxford during a Royal visit – Prince Andrew and his then fiancé Sarah Ferguson, I think! Late 80s.

I think I saw her fly at the Farnborough air show many years ago. Didn’t the apprentices have a hand in the restoration to flight status?

Am I wrong or did it not cast its appearance at one of The Great Warbirds Display at West Maling?

And two lovely smooth Gipsy queens hauling her along! I wonder if she sounds Rapide like? Guess depends on the exhaust pipes but cant wait to see her.

It flew at Fighter Meet 1992 at North Weald and the first Flying Legends in May 1993, those are the two occasions that I’ve seen it fly,congratulations to all at the Shuttleworth Collection for this magnificent piece of news.

Am I wrong or did it not cast its appearance at one of The Great Warbirds Display at West Maling?

Mildenhall, some years ago. (1989 ?)

It was 1987 in my memory (by no means infallible)

But what simply great news!

Moggy

Yes G-ACSP is indeed taking shape here at Derby, and we are now on the final wing spar with the aim to start assembling the wings in the next 6 weeks.
Plus the replica I am building of the ‘Green one’ G-RCSR is also going well with the fuselage done and I am making a set of wing spars for it in the same jigs as we have used for Black Magic.
Its fantastic news that Grosvenor House has flown again, cant wait to see it in the sir myself
Ken

Did the Comet land back at Old Warden? There was some talk at one stage that it might do it’s “flight trials” at the larger expanse of Duxford I believe.

Any idea how the one at Egginton is going on, if its still there that is?

regards
jack…

At the very last Mildenhall airshow, my Uncle commented “last time I came here was was that big race in the 1930s…” he was 7