Which Plane Would You Like To See Restored To Flying Condition

Blohm und Voss BV 138, BV 141 and Fw 189

But in the average 4 minute display, it would only get in one fly-by…..

With higher fuel costs than the Vulcan??!!:diablo:

But in the average 4 minute display, it would only get in one fly-by…..

now the beverleys not a bad suggestion 🙂

Nice photos Dave, thanks.

Well…flying I’d love to see:

A Hastings.

A Beverley…how did we let that one get away.

A Shack…here’s hoping for WR963!

A Gannet…I want to hear that Double Mamba again!

The beautiful Comet.

A Brit …another engine sound I’m missing!

Oh and this particular aircraft…

She was WU-15 then, but we all know her as ‘Just Jane’.

Dave T

strega returned to stock and returned downunder:eek::diablo:
but seriously though i’d love a whirlwind(and there a few out there that would;))
a genuine raaf p 40 in raaf pacific markings would be nice.
or a mk21 beaufighter:D

Master or Martinet.

Personally I would prefer a Master to a Martinet, but I approve of any and all attempts to get any of “FG” and George’s designs flying again is a good thing

Reading their website that is not the implication. It reads as always being a Martinet project (TT.1 MS902) that along the way has incorporated some Master components.

Jon

Thanks Jon,

My information was based on an article in flypast in the early eighties (you
know, printed on recyclied toiletpaper and full of interesting recovery bits, things have changed over the years:cool:)
Cees

Hawker Typhoon please:)

http://home.comcast.net/~aero51/html/exhibits/martinet_restoration.htm

This is the one, they turned it into a Martinet instead. Not that I object though, it’s a magnificent project.
Cees

Reading their website that is not the implication. It reads as always being a Martinet project (TT.1 MS902) that along the way has incorporated some Master components.

Jon

http://home.comcast.net/~aero51/html/exhibits/martinet_restoration.htm

This is the one, they turned it into a Martinet instead. Not that I object though, it’s a magnificent project.
Cees

There used to be a project to recreata a Master but that one has turned into the radial powered version.
Cees

Hmmm. A while ago someone contacted me asking for info on the cockpit layout of a Master I but I only had Master II drawings. I wonder if that’s the same project.

There used to be a project to recreata a Master but that one has turned into the radial powered version.
Cees

A Tempest, a Stuka, a Scimitar would be nice and definetely a Wellington.:D

Well with regards to the Master I was refering to the Mk II, more specifically the GT variant so there’s something to get the Hotspur airborne with. In that respect the Kestrel wouldn’t be an issue 🙂

Was just being fanciful though – I guess the nearest thing to a Master in any shape or form is the Icelandic Martinet.

Miles Master

If a Master is to fly again it would have to be a replica, which presents further questions.

1)
Are there drawings available for manufacture of the airframe

2)
Are there sufficient skilled woodworkers available to manufacture the airframe from scratch. (I would not like to see those already engaged on wooden aircraft restoration diverted from their current projects)

3)
Is there a Kestrel engine available bearing in mind that this engine is also used by the classic Hawker biplanes

Just one?

The Beaufighter please.

Moggy

Now that is a possibility. Isn’t it just the right engines that are needed?:)

results so far

This is what we think so far.

Mosquito = 5
Wellington = 4
canberra, comet, hornet, tsr2, concorde, javelin, hb42 and sr71 all with 3.

Loads with 2 and lots with 1.

Tony

I am surprised the Buccaneer has not been mentioned, 1 flying in South Africa, 1 under restoration in UK.

Would love to see again a Buccaneer coming in hard, trailing environmentally unfriendly smoke and at the sort of height that even the birds have got their legs down.