Spitfire PS853

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Curses, Photobucket! I’m working on a 1/72 scale model of PS853/G-RRGN and cockpit photos are a little hard to come by online…any chance these can be saved and posted again?

what a cracking picture, were you the photographer?

Seem to recall it was our own Albert Ross, taking the shot from the Oxford, in late ”60’s.

ARCo/HFL did put these telemetry sensors in a few of their Spitfire rebuilds – RN201 and PV202, for example – so I imagine it’s quite possible. There was a good article a few years back in one of the monthlies (I forget which one, now) which mentioned these instruments being fitted. All to preserve the engine life and prevent any possible failures in future.

I think you will find they had new avionics fitted as in 2 Radios and Transponder and a GPS that is removable to fit a camera control head unit, simply to enable it to operate in the current climate with Mode S etc, but that was it, the only other stuff was to tidy up and renew / remove years of redundant electrical modifications and changes..

You can see the removable camera mount centre stage and the new radio and transponder head units left side below the red canopy jettison knob.

I know this is dragging up an old thread, and this isn’t about a recent incident, but, I’ve recently heard that it said that during the recent overhaul of ‘853, RR had a suite of high tech data telemetry sensors fitted (engine as well as airframe) with live data feed.

Being RR, I could perhaps see why they might want to do that, but does anyone know if it’s true or not…??

She looks absolutely stunning, can’t wait to see her.

Roger

As said a mk 19 and has been offline about two years having a total rebuild.

Tony,

She looks riveting! No pun intended. Forgive my ignorance. What Mk is she? About how many hours have gone into her so far?

Great photos.

Hi John PS853 is a PRXIX.

Steve”P”

Tony,

She looks riveting! No pun intended. Forgive my ignorance. What Mk is she? About how many hours have gone into her so far?

Great photos.

😡 We could ask MK12 ,he would give the full details but alas—–

Tony,

She looks riveting! No pun intended. Forgive my ignorance. What Mk is she? About how many hours have gone into her so far?

Great photos.

Tony,

Thanks very much for posting these photos of PS853 post her restoration. Very nice to see the care to attention to detail taken with this restoration at all levels.

Regards,

Trouble is cannot edit these as I like so as shot, cannot get on
PC at the moment.

Very nice Tony! Thanks for posting.

Always interested in seeing any more you have.

re;

anyobdy not wanting to sit in there and fly her needs treatment!

Not edited any of these so a bit raw..

Very nice!

Looks like ARC & co have done a fantastic job as usual.

can post more if wanted :rolleyes:

Yes please!

Cheers

Paul

Cheers Tony, she looks lovely. I like the idea of the removable camera control..!

re;

Absolutely. I’d particularly like to see MT818 back as G-AIDN/N32. And, while going slightly off topic,
here’s a lovely shot of G-AIDN in an unusual formation.

what a cracking picture, were you the photographer?