5 days at Dijon for aerobatics training.
Steve Hinton was there to get the Spit back on its wheels.
Here are some pics from day 1 to day 5 (no exactly the best quality…)
Day1: clouds and rain… the Spit already got it’s new blue paint on.
Total of 260lbs ballast in the back, including 70lbs to trim the extra weight of the 2nd prop
By: Stieglitz - 2nd May 2005 at 14:22
Amazing pictures there Inverted. You can see the spitfire coming back in one piece.
Thank you very much for taking these pics and to share them.
Regards,
Stieglitz
By: Hot_Charlie - 2nd May 2005 at 13:38
That would be nice 😀
By: stewart1a - 2nd May 2005 at 13:35
i know now. does this mean it will be at dare i say it…. Legends 😀
By: Manonthefence - 2nd May 2005 at 13:28
Yeah I do, He has kind of dropped of the airshow map in recent years. Concentrating on importing Yaks methinks.
By: Hot_Charlie - 2nd May 2005 at 13:28
who is this mr R Goode?
Richard Goode of Yak importing and aerobatic fame perhaps?
By: stewart1a - 2nd May 2005 at 13:23
who is this mr R Goode?
By: Hot_Charlie - 2nd May 2005 at 13:12
Whats the story with the Yak?
Could the Yak coming to the UK be behind the reason the Spit was briefly registered to a Mr R Goode?
By: Ant.H - 2nd May 2005 at 12:51
Excelent shots Inverted,thanks 🙂 Is the Yak 9 the same one that belly-landed on its way home from Legends a couple of years back?
By: Mark12 - 2nd May 2005 at 11:38
Well thats a change from advertised! No stop in UK.
Is this new paint?
Mark V
Refreshed paint.
You must have blinked and missed it as it passed through the UK.
Inverted
Great and informative shots – thanks for posting.
“A horse will find its way to water but a pencil must be LEAD”.
Interesting to see just what it needs to keep that old Shack prop within CoG limits.
Mark
By: Mark V - 2nd May 2005 at 11:29
Well thats a change from advertised! No stop in UK.
Is this new paint?
By: Franck66 - 2nd May 2005 at 09:42
this Yak will be soon in England
By: Arabella-Cox - 2nd May 2005 at 09:37
Whats the story with the Yak?
By: Arabella-Cox - 2nd May 2005 at 09:37
Fantastic set of shots…. I love stuff like this…. Thanks!
By: Andy in Beds - 2nd May 2005 at 09:33
Wow, thanks for posting.
By: Inverted - 2nd May 2005 at 04:57
Day5
Here we are with the props !!
They also ran engine tests but, sorry, you won’t see the test flight as I had to drive back home 😡
Look at this great team: Steve doesn’t speak french and Henry can’t get a word in english 😀 but they’ve made it !!
By: Inverted - 2nd May 2005 at 04:48
Days 3 & 4
Hard to show what really happened, all was ‘inside’ the beast…
Eventually, back on it’s wheels !
Yak-9 engine tests, this one will soon fly to UK.
By: Inverted - 2nd May 2005 at 04:42
Day2 (afternoon)
Right wing on…. 😮 whaaaaa, now she can fly !!
By: Inverted - 2nd May 2005 at 04:37
Day2
Left wing on !! Gosh, it’s heavy !
And the weather improves, let’s go inverted…
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