Hurricane First Flight at North Weald

Fantastic news! Can’t wait to see her, hopefully this year.

Cheers, Huw:)

In no small part thanks to my amazing, possibly Oscar worthy, skill with the forklift at Van Nuys a couple of weeks ago

Can’t deny it helped – the prop might still be sitting there on the ramp at VN if you had not bothered to load it! 🙂

The Hurri-bomber flew again last Friday – just fyi 🙂

In no small part thanks to my amazing, possibly Oscar worthy, skill with the forklift at Van Nuys a couple of weeks ago 😎

(you’re not buying this for one second are you? 🙁 )

:D:D:D:D

I was going to ask at the Hanger 11 stall at Biggin Hill but thought they may be sick of people asking!!

Hope she will be at Shoreham in August.

Peter

If we had charged a pound for each answer we would have been minted 😀
Seriously we were inundated with that question and it was nice (on the Saturday) to answer with ‘She flew last night’ 🙂 We are always happy to talk!

That’s great news, really looking forward to seeing her. I was going to ask at the Hanger 11 stall at Biggin Hill but thought they may be sick of people asking!!

Hope she will be at Shoreham in August.

Peter

The Hurri-bomber flew again last Friday – just fyi 🙂

Did Peter fly her ?

Great news!!

The Hurri-bomber flew again last Friday – just fyi 🙂

Great news indeed. Hope to see her at Yeovilton.

That is good news, I was going to ask PT himself at Biggin, but by the end of sat I was fairly well barbecued:o

The Hurri-bomber flew again last Friday – just fyi 🙂

Oh no!! Hopefully the damage is minimal! Just read the article in the latest Flypast, she looks lovely!

Hurricane at North Weald

And today it´s been stood on its nose.

K.:(

Will also put a full gallery on my site soon

Hi Dora-9, wonder if you could post a link to the gallery on your site.

Regards,

That’s a credit to all involved.
Well done.

This aircraft looks great in every detail! What a nice restoration job! Thumbs up for the PT team.

Stieglitz

No thumbs up for the work put in by the Hawker Restorations team then?

An absolutely fantastic restoration, and superb photographs congratulations to the H11 team and Hawker Restorations. Hope she has a long and safe flying career. There is a picture of the what may well be the original BE505 on page 43 of Norman Franks ‘Hurricane At War 2’ with the caption stating. . .
‘Less lucky during the Dieppe operation on 19 August 1942 was Flt Sgt. C.B. Watson of 174 Squadron. His Hurricane was hit by ground fire and went into the harbour, fortunately he survived to become a prisoner. An Australian, his Hurricane has a kangaroo motif and the name ‘Pegs’ the aircraft was possibly BE505 XP-L.’
Interestingly this book also has a picture of P2617 and AE977 on page 86!

This aircraft looks great in every detail! What a nice restoration job! Thumbs up for the PT team.

Stieglitz

Again I can only pass on my congratualtions. In addition those good people at Flying Machines TV have posted a video of the first flight. It can be found at:

http://www.flyingmachinestv.co.uk/index.html

Beautiful film of a beautiful aircraft, thanks to all who were involved in this. 😀

well done to everyone involved, very nice pictures 🙂

I understand she was due to fly again today, was hoping to get down but sadly not:(