Hendons Hart Trainer

And a lot more than a ‘clean up’ has been done on the Spitfire at least. The recovery of a lot of the historic ‘bodges’ on that a/c isn’t to be dismissed as lightly as implied here. The continuing lack of engines is due to them being hung in the AirSpace display. (Discuss..)

Engineless

The lack of engines in the Spitfire and Mosquito has been in evidence in the overhaul pictures on the Duxford Update website for the past month or so. I must say that a clean-up and repaint are somewhat at the lower end of the “restoration” scale nowadays. But then again, until about 20 years ago that’s what any restoration consisted of. Things change, standards are raised …

Veltro

can you hang a prop without an engine?

Yes, you can, and it’s done a lot more often than is realised in museum a/c. I’ll leave it to someone else (Mike J?) to list some of these, suffice it to say that DX’s Mosquito and Spitfire 24 didn’t have engines, and aren’t getting them either.
Cheers

I would imagine so, can you hang a prop without and engine?

Alex

Thanks Alex – I’d not realised there is a Kestrel beside the aeroplane. Presumably there is also an identical engine still under the Hart’s cowlings?

Hi,

The notice states its a IB.

Alex

Nice pics! Any idea what Kestrel engine variant is fitted to it?

Hi,

I’ll post some of their other Hart later today.

By the way, these were all taken on a pretty bog standard digital camera. An Olypmus C-960 Zoom 1.3Megapix, although at the time of purchase it was a top of the range camera. But nothing stays that way for long.

Alex

Enjoy.

With pleasure! 🙂

J.V.