Mega, super-duper, ultra-rare Spitfire item on eBay!

I suppose it could be a laugh to see who can come up with the most outrageous listing on ebay, then close it before you get reported for inaccurate listing, it would probably be on most forums within minutes.:dev2:

How about a MkVIII Spitfire fitted with a Tank engine, that was flown by Tuck and Bader, with a few picks of them badly super imposed in the cockpit it just happened to be made of plastic and carry a tank engine because it was special model tested by the a couple of the top pilots. Start the bidding at 99p.
Do you think anyone would take it seriously???:rolleyes: I bet someone would and start slagging off the listing.
Maybe thats too accurate i believe Supermarine did test a Spit made out of Bakolite??? (a Wartime type of plastic)
Don’t think ill try it might get banned again:o !!!!!

Would be funny to see some imaginative ebay listings here though?

The “plastic” Spitfire was made from “aerolite” which was a mix of flax fibres and phenolic resin; it never flew , and so the first gate guardian was born!

I see that the item that started all of this sold for a whopping £1.99 with £2.00 for postage to bidder DAVIDWHU. Must have been the sales hype that forced the bidding so high.

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I suppose it could be a laugh to see who can come up with the most outrageous listing on ebay, then close it before you get reported for inaccurate listing, it would probably be on most forums within minutes.:dev2:

How about a MkVIII Spitfire fitted with a Tank engine, that was flown by Tuck and Bader, with a few picks of them badly super imposed in the cockpit it just happened to be made of plastic and carry a tank engine because it was special model tested by the a couple of the top pilots. Start the bidding at 99p.
Do you think anyone would take it seriously???:rolleyes: I bet someone would and start slagging off the listing.
Maybe thats too accurate i believe Supermarine did test a Spit made out of Bakolite??? (a Wartime type of plastic)
Don’t think ill try it might get banned again:o !!!!!

Would be funny to see some imaginative ebay listings here though?

I suppose it could serve as the starting point for a full ground-up rebuild of the Spitfire from which it so obviously came, and perhaps the Christmas card mentioned will be taken as due proof of the rebuilt airframe’s total authenticity, as the two are so obviously linked :rolleyes:

Postage cost seem perfectly reasonable to me – after all, £5 brings it to you in genuine WW2-period Jiffy Bag, believed to have been used to hold the Tuck’s sandwiches while they were visiting a well known contemporary pilot then lodging in a certain hotel in Liverpool.

Oh, and, in answer to the next question..

No the article rebuilt around this plate won’t be there this year, but maybe next…. depends if we can agree on a suitably authentic paint scheme, and find eight Lewis guns for an authentic weapons fit.

..Don’t worry, I’m already putting my coat on……

Paul F

I’m wondering if a bored forumite is responsible for this sale? Would your average ebay seller come up with stuff along the lines of “hey I’ve got proof of its authenticity in the form of a Christmas card from the Stanford Tucks, but I’ve lost it”?

Sheer genius.:D

Best wishes
Steve P

Can some one explain to me who the “Stanford Tucks” are please?

It may be cockney rhyming slang, in which case I’ll go back and moderate myself. 😮

Moggy

Wrists duly slapped. Like I say…. Box of frogs me! 😮

Bob Stanford Tuck

Hurricanes i think from memory??? Plenty of peeps with more knowledge than me so I’ll shut up as I’m as mad as a box of frogs. :p

I am sure most people on this forum know who he is if you don’t heres a snipit, Bob Stanford Tuck, one of the top scoring Battle of Britain Aces DSO, DFC and Bar, he was one of the old school, I believe 27 or 28 Kills before he got shot down by AA, crash landing right by the offending gun’s. He was hit by I believe 20mm cannon, then destroyed one of the AA guns on the way down leaving a very angry crew on the second gun who seeing the smoking remains of thier mates were ready to string him up. Luckily for Tuck one of his 20mm cannon shells had gone down the barrel of the second AA gun splitting it like a petal on a flower. On seeing the damage to thier barrell the second crew started laughing and the mood changed. Look out for his book Fly for your life it’s a great read about a great man. I am sure if he had an ejector seat he would have used it on that occasion.;) He survived the war so you never know:D

When will see a spitfire with an ejection seat at Flying Legends?

Oh come on you knew some one was going to say it sooner or later. 😉

Rubbish; we all know Fluffy spends ages hunched over the nav’s table, cutting fresh sarnies and passing them around. It’s all a bit like that famous clip of the fat kid eating on the rollercoaster on Jim’ll Fix It, but he means well, bless him.

I will never be able to visit Coningsby again!!!

Can some one explain to me who the “Stanford Tucks” are please?

An elite group of spitfire pilots maybe?:confused:

Hurricanes i think from memory??? Plenty of peeps with more knowledge than me so I’ll shut up as I’m as mad as a box of frogs. :p

Visionary

Why earlier I told of prophesy of such very things in my tempted thread ahem I quote myself

“even everything on ebay these days is labelled instantly as Spitfire whether it is or not”………………

I can obviously clearly see into the future and will continue to prophesy many great things,

Can some one explain to me who the “Stanford Tucks” are please?

An elite group of spitfire pilots maybe?:diablo:

and for your information the only Lancaster social gathering equipment was a Gas Powered Paella unit

Rubbish; we all know Fluffy spends ages hunched over the nav’s table, cutting fresh sarnies and passing them around. It’s all a bit like that famous clip of the fat kid eating on the rollercoaster on Jim’ll Fix It, but he means well, bless him.

Fluffy- only if you promise to wear a frilly apron and push it up and down the fuselage serving cakes while in flight, okay mate? 😀

Just to emphasise, it was only produced for a 3 minute period for the Vickers Halifax and how is Fluffy going to get the trolley over the main spar to the pilots anyway? Thats why Lancs did not use them. For Gods sake get real man!! Anyway, the Roundel’s size are far more important than the Fondue Set and for your information the only Lancaster social gathering equipment was a Gas Powered Paella unit first used in ’44. so there :p

Martin Baker indeed designed the jettisonable canopies for the Spitfire.The scheme evolved by Martin employed unlocking pins actuated by cables which are operated by the pilot by pulling a small red ball mounted on the hood arch.
They also manufactured the cable cutters fitted to the Lanc

Frilly pinny on order::diablo:

And I’m supposed to sleep tonight with that image running round my head?

😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

The two patents in question, including diagrams:

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB583257&F=0
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB640520&F=0

The Spitfire-installed “systems” MB refer to could be canopy-jettison related:

http://www.ejectionsite.com/emakers.htm

Martin-Baker provided some subcontractor designs for aftermarket parts which were purchased in bulk (including a retrofit package to jettison the canopy on Spitfire aircraft)

Best guess is that they did some even more cursory Googling than I’ve just done, put 2 and 2 together and got 5. If real though, it must be fairly rare even if it was fitted to a “mere” Defiant. Assuming it got screwed to a seat at some stage, it still may never have been installed in an aircraft.

Fluffy- only if you promise to wear a frilly apron and push it up and down the fuselage serving cakes while in flight, okay mate? 😀

And I’m supposed to sleep tonight with that image running round my head? :p

Fluffy- only if you promise to wear a frilly apron and push it up and down the fuselage serving cakes while in flight, okay mate? 😀