How are the Tempest comming along?

One in the USA

Nelson Ezell is to start on his Tempest, now that the Seafire is done.

Cheers,

Lynn

Well the view ahead on takeoff and landing must be about the same – ruddy awful. Clostermans description of his first solo in a Tempest published in “The Big Show” reminds me of mine in the first Pitts I flew. Though the Pitts does have far more responsive controls for certain.
Cheers,
Trapper 69
PS – I can afford to fly G-KEST but I would not mind going totally bankrupt to fly MW763……………………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sadly (for Hawker fans…) a. 😉

Ahhh, are we talking about :

A.

or

B.

or

C.

MW763

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But excited – a Tempest – flying – 😎

Is it true, or are we in some virtual world here?

When I first read it, my first thought was grab the camara, and go to Stoughton as I was going into Leicester anyway to put a deposit on a car. Then I reread it and realised what Skybolt meant!

Skybolt.

You know your name.

I know your name.

But there’ll be a lot of people wondering what the hell you are on about. 😀

Care to clarify, Mr T? 😉

Sorry Trumper. I am afraid my bizarre sense of humour overtook me. With a bit of luck it will not be too long.
To see my namesake in flight after last seeing one, a Mark V, at an RAF Battle of Britain display in the late forties at CFE West Raynham, will be absolutely magic. Though the Sabre engined Tempest V will always be my favourite in terms of brutal aesthetics. IMHO the finest short range fighter of WW2, at least at the end.
Cheers,
Trapper 69
😉

Im believe the mags he requires are Rotax ones – the appears to be plenty of the BTH type around.

Thanks for the information,maybe someone on here may know of or be able to build some magnetos for the Tempest twos machine.

David Martin was the owner of the Tempest with Windmill Aviation back in the early 1990’s . He owned one only but did have aspirations for another.
Having spoken to him just prior to Christmas 1992 and not since I can assure you that he was unfortunately murdered. There is a person detained
under Her Majesty’s pleasure for the said offence.
As regards the Tempest Two machine’s – having spoken to Gerry a few months ago all he needs to run his machine is some usable magneto’s that
are proving elusive.

[QUOTE=Skybolt]This Tempest, though somewhat older than production versions, is fully serviceable and will be flying at Leicester tomorrow. Weather and the Almighty permitting.
Cheers,
Trapper 69
QUOTE]
Crikey,i did’nt know there was one nearing completion let alone flying,can someone post some piccies if it does fly please. 😀
Were there a couple of Tempest/Typhoons being restored somewhere but the owner was “allegedly” killed/murdered a few years ago [probably got that completely wrong but something is ringing some bells].

This Tempest, though somewhat older than production versions, is fully serviceable and will be flying at Leicester tomorrow. Weather and the Almighty permitting.
Cheers,
Trapper 69
PS – I well remember Bert Russell at Cranfield showing me the starting procedure on the grounded but still functioning Centaurus Tempest the College of Aeronautics had as a test rig. The GPU took some stick. Awesome………….!!!!!!!!!!! Bert did my upgrade to Flying Instructor from an AFI rating back in 1963 when he was both CFI and CTP at the College.

yes but they would want originality

If the Centraurus scenario doesn’t work out, the Tempest II is the perfect candidate for a R3350 swap as it also has a four blader propellor. I know it is not authentic below the cowls, but that could make the aircraft taking to the skies sooner, and the change is less obvious.

Cees

thanks graeme unfortunatly not at legends maybe a later duxford appearance?

i got this from the tempest website

In an e-mail from Tom Woodhouse in February 2004, he reports:

“MW763 could possibly be ready for Flying Legends 2004 but the last I heard was that Mike Nixon still hadn’t even started the engine restoration and he’d had the engine for two years previous to that anyway! The Flypast picture (May 2002 issue) was taken when Gerry and the lads had hung their spare (not overhauled) Centaurus on the airframe to get the cowlings complete and as many systems fitted as possible, otherwise the airframe is ready to go pending the arrival of the engine.”

other posters might know more about this.