I’m pretty sure deactivated or replica guns were not fitted during the work carried out at Shoreham and Bournemouth, so the gun bays will probably remain useful as extra luggage bays! (Or I suppose they could be modified and fitted with auxiliary wing tanks).
I did see some pictures posted whilst the aircraft was a Hurn, and note that the already modernised cockpit has had more work to make it even more modern!
I don’t think this high quality, straight from the master tape version of the video has been posted on this thread (or previous the ones before), so here it is (and again for those that missed it, if it already has!) 😎 : –
Includes a detailed description of the shot/sequence.
(Can only be watched on YT, and switch to 720 HD for the best quality).
PPS did upload this video a couple of years ago of it having gear retraction tests: –
No more videos have been posted to date from PPS, but hopefully, things are progressing well with the overhaul, as has been indicated by the above posts.
Anyway, by chance, I found this clip on YouTube the other day, filmed at Duxford in the early or mid 1990s, which features the TFC Hellcat (amongst others), and Alex Vraciu being reacquainted with it: –
Thanks to all for the additional snippets of info!
I believe Mark12 has posted the images he mentions of Tony Cooper’s aircraft either here, or on another site.
As for the exhausts, since BBMF started using the siamese ones, it seems that in past seasons, they swap them between these and the individual ejector type on the ‘Baby’ Spits and Hurricanes.
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