new spit for ARCo

Originally posted by cas
any piece of equipment that needs a cooling fan that big has a serious design fault

Can’t argue with wisdom like that!!! 😀

angy palm trees yuk yuk

any piece of equipment that needs a cooling fan that big has a serious design fault and lets face it it`s well known the only reason they fly is cos they are so ugly the earth repells them

fixed wing rules KO:D 😀

I dont know why you boys are fighting over helicopters,everyone knows that the seaking is the best 😀 😀 :p

I will find out this weekend and let you know…

They are a very secretive lot down at the end at Duxford. It seems that the new Spit is just the tip of the iceberg. Apparently security is going to get even tighter down there now. Couldn’t believe the amount of kit that was parked on the grass outside their hangars yesterday. There was so much flying going on down there I thought it was some kind of mini-airshow day.

As it all seems a big secret down there perhaps we should refer to it as Area 51! C’mon…someone out there tell us what’s going on. I have heard the rumour(s). Let’s have some facts about what is going on inside the skunk works.

well with all the waffle about hellies and buchons on this thread i was beginning to wonder…………..

so does anyone out there know what spit ARC have got in their
shed
cos there seams to be a lot of speculation and no facts???
anyone got any pickies of it

At the risk of pointing out the awful truth, no it is not!!!

spit what spit
i thought this was a helli thread

Hmm – now what about this new Spit at ARCO/HFL?

what sad people bertie and seafuryfan are
flying angry palmtree`s and thinking they can dog fight
it makes me want to go carp fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:p :p

Come and ‘ave a go if you think ‘yer ‘ard enough

Bertie:

Gadzooks Sir!

Trifle with a helicopter would you, cad!

I challenge you to a duel – Appleby Valley, your type vs my Puma, 50 minutes of 1v1. We shall have to strobe, of course, or Mode 1 for you to ident us, but after that, heavens, en-garde!

Name your weapon Sir, your location, and GPTN Ext, and I shall meet you at a pre-determined point with GPMG at the ready!

When Mark Hanna was interviewed at a Flying Legends in front of G-BOML he told how Reg Hallam would conclude each of his flights in a Buchon.

Reg would climb out the cockpit, walk 100 yards away from the aircraft, turn around and say:

“You didn’t get me this time you little b*$*!$*”

Sadly as everyone knows Mark lost his life in G-BOML a couple of years after the interview.

M

“Ant, you worry too much. Perhaps you should stay in bed longer…..

Go fly a Buchon, then fly a Spit, then come back and give us your wisdom.”

Bertie,I was quoting the words of Ladd Doctor,someone who has actually flown Buchons and a whole host of other warbirds in the US.Bear in mind that of all the surviving Buchons,there is only one that has never had to be rebuilt after a serious accident,either in it’s operational life or as a warbird.One or two examples have had several accidents!This imho is not a good safety record and I would say that it’s only a matter of time before there’s another Buchon groundloop,landing gear collapse etc.I’m not being pessimistic,it’s just what past experience is telling me.

Mark V, I might just do that one of these days. Thats a great looking Spit IX out there, among the other warbirds.

In the meantime I’ll keep hoping on that lottery ticket so I can get my own Spit 🙂

Dan

Dan

You have exceptionally good taste. Next time you are in Virginia be sure to drop by Suffolk airport.

Bertie, you are the best! you can make a great career at the AFM & General discussion forum also. They like to play it hard there, that’s the real playing ground.

Dan, I said that formation teams were boring. Sometimes at the RIAT you had 7 of them in the daily airshow. For me a Spitfire is like a racecar, just to streamlined and light. I prefer aircraft as the Tempest and Typhoon.

David, riding the TBM was great. It was in 1991 in Florida. Always liked the TBM, especially as a radarplatform (TBM-3W2) and as a a tanker.

Think I am with you on this one Roger. The idea of a trip in a TBM
would sway me that way.

Spits boring? Wow, no sense of history or what? 🙂

Saw my first as a kid at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. I spent a lot of time wondering how I could get that Spit I off the wires and out the door.

Lucky enough to do a semester of College in England in 1980. Made it to Duxford. Got up close to Spit Vc AR501. Love at first sight. Also saw the Spit I at the IWM that time. Started reading all I could find on Spits, got hooked on the Spit XII, ended up back in England in 85 for the 41 Squadron Reunion. Former 41 Squadron Spit pilots Peter Cowell and Terry Spencer talked the B of B flight pilot into letting me get in the cockpit of Spit II P7350, which was painted in 41 Squadron markings at the time. I can still feel it around me if I concentrate hard enough. Sitting in the cockpit of a B of B vet Spit, spending time with my heros.

Boring? You gotta be kidding 🙂

Dan

You asked me if I hated something, I explained I didn’t. I don’t like demonstration teams anymore after 1988 , so what. I have seen the burned corpses and that’s what I have to life with. If they are flying, I am moving out!

Mark (12), I don’t hate Spitfires, it is just that I have absolutely no interest or emotion with the sight of a Spitfire, so at airshows I just ignore them, and I only photograph them once, which means that I have 1 slide of every Spit I saw in my collection. I have the same with demonstration teams as the Red Arrows, Blue Angels and all the others. I think they are boring after you have seen them once and they are a safety hazard, (and I was at Ramstein in 1988 so I know what I am talking about), and are in my opinion only good in that they mostly close the show, so that I can leave without traffic jam as everybody is watching them. Maybe this even safed my life in 88, as I was already moving towards the carpark when pandemonium struck 300 yards behind me. BW Roger