By: Roobarb - 25th January 2017 at 22:32
Ah yes the MAA. I was once told the objective of some within that organisation was to Mummify Airworthy Aeroplanes…
By: Fournier Boy - 25th January 2017 at 20:55
Because of course that would be much easier to get by the MAA!!!
Jeeze…
By: Oxcart - 25th January 2017 at 20:53
They should hang an R3350 on the front
By: Fournier Boy - 25th January 2017 at 20:45
Close roobarb, but there’s a little bit more to it than that. There is some engine work required, and it is mainly paperwork being the hold up. There are people making things happen, it all being a factor of time and money. As the Navy don’t RNHF to anywhere near what the RAF fund the BBMF, the best way to see the FB11 Grace the skies again is to get donating to Navy Wings!
FB
By: Roobarb - 25th January 2017 at 20:37
Excellent news, but what about the other one? The FB11 with the zero time rebuilt engine that has been sitting on the deck for years, potentially airworthy, but awaiting someone at the project team to grow a pair and make a decision. Risk management is one thing, but this is ridiculous. About time the Navy cut through some of that red tape and got to grips with it being a prime asset of their proud history. Let’s hope the same “risk assessment strategists” don’t realise that HMS Victory is a possible fire risk…
Oh and didn’t the Culdrose Station Flight and then the RNHF operate a Sea Hawk FGA.6 for years…
What is going on?
I am in no way questioning the ability or the dedication of the guys on the RNHF or their supporting engineers, I believe it to be more of a project management issue…
By: Zac Yates - 25th January 2017 at 19:57
Good news, something I imagine airshowgoers in the UK are excited about.
By: Spiteful21 - 19th July 2004 at 10:54
Thanks very much Archer and Mark12 for your help, If I can ever help you out let me know. 🙂
By: Archer - 18th July 2004 at 20:23
Here are two shots of the Sea Fury currently in the Military Aviation Museum in Soesterberg, the Netherlands. The aircraft is owned by the Aviodrome but loaned to Soesterberg.
By: Propstrike - 17th July 2004 at 23:08
Thanks Mark12,
Just because they have no arrestor hook fitted does not make them Furys, I suppose.
I think the cropped rudder actually looks better, but maybe it is just what one becomes used to.
By: Mark12 - 17th July 2004 at 23:01
I can see clearly that…
It is an interesting canopy profile on the Havana example. I wonder if they bust the original, and did a bit of a DIY job. Odd that the 2 Cuban Fury’s have such different colour schemes.
Propstrike,
All perspex takes a terrible beating from these ‘hot’ countries. The Havana example is a local museum rendering and the canopy at ‘Bay of Pigs’ is in poor shape.
There was word about ten years ago of a number of Seafurys/Seafuries in Cuba within a military establishment. Did they ever surface I wonder.
Mark
By: Propstrike - 17th July 2004 at 22:44
It is an interesting canopy profile on the Havana example. I wonder if they bust the original, and did a bit of a DIY job. Odd that the 2 Cuban Fury’s have such different colour schemes.
By: Mark12 - 17th July 2004 at 22:22
Not much response here then.
So here are a few photographs from my travels.
UB471 at Rangoon in May 1996.
541 at the ‘Bay of Pigs’, Cuba in November 1998
542 in Havana, Cuba in November 1998.
..and a couple of shots from the original negatives of Bert Horton who captured this beauty at Fayid, Egypt, on delivery flight to Iraq, circa 1949/50.
Bert, a post war Spitfire pilot with 208 Sqd, interestingly trained on the BBMF Mk XIX PM631 when at 226 OCU.
Mark
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