By: setter - 5th January 2006 at 00:28
Hi Mark12
AndyG,
Just enough to make the provenance ‘thin but robust’.
Mark
So I assume that your notebook was incorporated in the rebuild or at least the page with the serial Number LOL !!!
Regards
john p
By: Napier Sabre - 4th January 2006 at 21:46
aj,
They will make it here when they can. Patience. Your missing the question entirely it should be “will it be at………….” at this point I’ll get my coat.
By: rivet - 4th January 2006 at 20:53
Mark V, Close, but not quite!
By: DazDaMan - 4th January 2006 at 19:38
What he said – she’s a beautiful piece of work, and a credit to all involved.
By: Mark V - 4th January 2006 at 19:20
Could I just point out that, Yes, ARCO have done a good job, but there were many others involved in the re-build/restoration/replication of TA805! The ‘Patio Piece’ has had quite a few folks working on it long before It ever arrived on the hallowed ground of Duxford!
Well done EVERYONE involved in the work.
The main thing is that there is another Spitfire in the blue (??) sky above England.Cheers all……………….
Ah – someone from Airframe Assemblies in our midst? Welcome Rivet!
Quite true about there being many others involved, well done to all.
By: rivet - 4th January 2006 at 18:37
Cheers all……………….
By: Kenbo - 8th December 2005 at 22:37
Hey, that looks like a familiar shot 😉 I bet the photographer was standing on a fuel bowser or a tractor :p I’ts a real shame none of the Duxford photo mafia were there today….It was very lonely standing on the Tank bank as it hurtled off the grass runway straight towards my zoom lens, oh and did I mention that the sun was shining nicely! I’d post up some pictures but I’m still on the “old” technology, you remember that stuff called film! Yep it sure did look nice in the air at last. A nice authentic colour scheme if I’m not mistaken, 234Sqn at RAF Bentwaters 1945 I believe. 😀
Film……. Cant beat 🙂 it its all i ever use :p i dont like all this auto point and click ‘you cant bend it’ cameras, im sure its all very good but i cant get on with it! 😮 Technophobe!
By: Roobarb - 8th December 2005 at 22:16
That was a long walk!
That’s why I took my car up the far end! That and the need to get back to “Area 51” to get the shots of it landing back and taxiing in. The aircraft will probably be doing some more test flying next week dependent on the weather. 🙂
By: Mark V - 8th December 2005 at 08:29
it was very lonely standing on the Tank bank
That was a long walk!
By: DazDaMan - 7th December 2005 at 23:05
Had she flown that day it would have been very poignant as only a few hours earlier news had broken of Ray Hannah’s passing.
I had similar thoughts earlier….
By: 92fis - 7th December 2005 at 23:01
Looks nice, well done to all involved.
By: DazDaMan - 7th December 2005 at 23:01
The CAA has a picture!
Ooh, veeeery nice! 🙂
By: Fluffy - 7th December 2005 at 22:51
Frame 5 is just bent there is no oil tank just the fuel tank, so not a Griffon frame 5
By: haroldmulder - 7th December 2005 at 22:48
Peter Monk’s Spitfire
Am I missing something here. The wreckage photo at the beginning of this thread has what appears to me the firewall for a Griffon engine with the forward slant of the firewall above frame 5. Yet Peter’s is a MkIX I believe?
By: Mark12 - 7th December 2005 at 22:15
How is that for timing?
Just happened to be passing Duxford at bang on mid-day, Newport Pagnell to Colchester by direct route, and caught the final pass and steep bank for the landing circuit as I drove by.
Congrats to all at ARCo and to Airframe Assemblies who did all the sheet metal.
Mark
By: Roobarb - 7th December 2005 at 21:01
The CAA has a picture!
Hey, that looks like a familiar shot 😉 I bet the photographer was standing on a fuel bowser or a tractor :p I’ts a real shame none of the Duxford photo mafia were there today….It was very lonely standing on the Tank bank as it hurtled off the grass runway straight towards my zoom lens, oh and did I mention that the sun was shining nicely! I’d post up some pictures but I’m still on the “old” technology, you remember that stuff called film! Yep it sure did look nice in the air at last. A nice authentic colour scheme if I’m not mistaken, 234Sqn at RAF Bentwaters 1945 I believe. 😀
By: merlin70 - 7th December 2005 at 20:31
Congrats to all at ARCo. The wait has been worth it. A fantastic restoration.
Here she is following ground runs a couple of days ago.
Had she flown that day it would have been very poignant as only a few hours earlier news had broken of Ray Hannah’s passing.
By: paulmcmillan - 7th December 2005 at 18:26
The CAA has a picture!
By: DazDaMan - 7th December 2005 at 17:57
Today! Congrats to the owners and all at Arco.
Really? Sweeet!
By: Mark V - 7th December 2005 at 17:02
How near is near?
Today! Congrats to the owners and all at Arco.
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