So when are you going to write the cheque then?

It’s always easy to talk, when it’s somebody else’s money EH?

I always appreciate it when sensible and realistic considerations are included in any discussion!

Errr….ok?

I think you might have misunderstood.

Generally speaking, airplanes are meant to fly. That’s where they belong. A Sony Playsation is meant to be used for games. A car is meant for the purpose of driving it. A book is meant for reading.

Of course, you may include the pragmatic way. Using a toothpick to stick it into the tiny “reset button” of some kind of device is one thing, but the item is still meant for…picking stuff out of your teeth.

I did not refer to money, I did not say I had money. I simply referred to the choice another member put up. Keep the plane as a museum artifact in Europe, or sell it to the States and make it fly. I might have misunderstood the point, but I got the impression he was poundering what would be the best. I simply meant the States option is the best, as airplanes are meant to fly. That’s why they have wings and all of that you know…

Quite sensible and realistic to include an option to sell it to some hot shot millionaire in USA and keep it flying. No?

Will AR213 be flying this year?

It is available online. Got mine thru a link on this site a few years back

I think you chaps may exaggerate things a little bit. A wide range of foreigners do speak great English, but the greater majority does not – Scandinavia and Holland included.

The problem I usually have in Great Britain is that some just have too thick of a dialect for me to understand. My wife joked when in Edinburgh that we should simply say “sorry, I only understand English”.

Met one guy in a pub in Epping once. Didn’t get one bloody thing of what he said. He spoke insanely fast, used twists and turns I could not possibly begin to understand. Happens half the time meeting Brits.

Yanks are easier. They speak generally slower, use English I am more used to (due to music, movies etc etc) and I think they might just use only 50% of the English vocabulary when speaking :diablo:. Nevertheless, it works for those of us which have English as a second language.

I do have to ask though, just where the hell did your education system go?

£50 and payed £100 in court costs

Even in those days money value, that can’t have been much.

As long as it won’t gradually “die” because of corrotion etc, then they can do whatever they want with it.

Personally, I prefer a full restoration in the markings of how it was last seen flying.

Just a question of definition.

I feel an airworthy Spitfire is a Spitfire that you may fly within a reasonable amount of time from when you’ve planned it. Got a flat tire? Sure, but it’s still airworthy.

Any Spitfires being in or around the zone of being able to fly on short notice (and let’s leave the paperwork out of it) is in my opinion an airworthy Spitfire.