Replica K5054 crash

So what happened to the seat then?

I can imagine Du Cros was pretty disillusioned by this point…years to build it, struggles to cool it, damaged prior to it’s first intended public display, crashed and cut in two…

Its well over due that I thank all the crew of A.A. for your help with everything. 🙂
Thank you all 🙂
Andy

..Gently does it were almost there…!

Chumpy..one of them from A.A.

And Clive in the shadows of the hanger to the left

I just noticed thats me holding the wing at Sandown

I am the fool you all talk about that purchased the replica from clive. It was mine when Bob Cole crashed at RAF Keevel, whilst testing for its permit to fly.
Those very nice Chaps at Air frame assemblies arranged for me to store it at Sandown. We intented in the begining to repair it but after much time and messing about I sold it to the southampton Hall of Aviation.
The seat ended up in my car some how when we did the cut to transport it and has been im my store room ever since.

Yes it is if ebay was around at the time of the accident I would have put the whole aircraft on.

How did the seat end up in your possession and what is fitted in the a/c now ?

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…On arrival at Sandown in 1999, you could hardly see the join once they had finished!

Chumpy.

On a wooden aircraft I can see the benefits of a one piece spar, but it has always puzzled me why the designer did not engineer a transport joint behind the cockpit.

Any off airfield landing, wheels up or down, and history tells us, would always mean a heli lift to recover, assuming the hard points were there. 🙁

Mark

No matter how you look at it, it’s a great achievement. And it’s good that, OK, it’s not flying any more, but it didn’t end up as a smoking hole, either….

OUCH!!!!

…On arrival at Sandown in 1999, you could hardly see the join once they had finished!

Chumpy.

Yes it is if ebay was around at the time of the accident I would have put the whole aircraft on.

And I’d have probably bought it !

Yes it is if ebay was around at the time of the accident I would have put the whole aircraft on.

The seat from which is now on ebay.

Hi all thought you may like to see a pic of the K5054 recovery. As you can see its still in one piece. It was cut in half benind the cockpit some time later to transport it to Sandown. Ray the designer was there with us when we did the cut to be sure it could be put back together again. The spar was cut after I sold it to Southampton hall of aviation.

This Spitfire replica has been displayed at the Abingdon Fayre during the past two years, so we may see it there on 6th May.

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Originally Posted by Yak 11 Fan
Wroughton 1994 from memory. I spent the weekend there looking after G-OYAK and G-OXVI.

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Originally Posted by Hot_Charlie
Indeed. It was sat in the static park nose on displaying its bent prop…

Oh Dear, clearly didn’t look after it all that well then:D

????????????????? Nothing that i was responsible for had a bent prop.

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Originally Posted by Yak 11 Fan
Wroughton 1994 from memory. I spent the weekend there looking after G-OYAK and G-OXVI.

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Originally Posted by Hot_Charlie
Indeed. It was sat in the static park nose on displaying its bent prop…

Oh Dear, clearly didn’t look after it all that well then:D

If only he had watched “Flight of the Pheonix” as many times as me , he’d have repaired it in the field and flown it out!