RE: A Connie for Kev

If you go to Duxford this afternoon, you’ll see one for real. ETA around 16.00 hrs

RE: Defiant replica

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-09-02 AT 06:11 PM (GMT)]If it is made like the real thing, and looks like the real thing, and it isn’t just a plastc shell like all those Spitfires around (I don’t even like real Spitfires, so you can imagine how I like those plastic fakes)I rate it as a real, but new, aircraft. If it has original parts in it, I rate it as a non flying restauration. The “new” 262’s, the “new” FW-190’s I rate them as new originals. They are going to make a production line of newly built P-51’ns and TF-51’ns now, I don’t care, better than todays Cessna’s, Pipers or VLA’s & MLA’s. Imagine they are going to recreate 12 “new” Lancasters, Halifaxes or Stirlings.

Seeing the photo’s, the Defiant looks great, so to me it is a Defiant, only younger than the other one.

RE: North Weald CASA Heinkel 111

Sh** , S**t, *hit. I realy hate this. The one at La Ferte Alais, is going to the Usa, this one is going there. So in a few years time they have 4 flying 111’ns and ‘we’ in Europe have none. The same with the “new” 190’s. They all go over the Ocean. Well with some luck we’ll have a Connie from “them’ , as tomorrow N749NL shall cross the Atlantic!

RE: Tupolev 144

The last flying 144 (the one with the American engines and the NASA testbed) was sold via E-Bay earlier this year. It will make a last flight to the USA where it will be put on show. The engines are going back to Russia, they weren’t in the deal. And yes, the 144 was earlier, longer, faster and more beautifull (the final variant with the canard wings)than than the Concorde. Saw it only twice in the air. In 1973 when it crashed, and 2 years later. Both times in Paris. There is one on show in Germany, in Sinsheim. It is standing on top of the museum in take off position. Great sight !

RE: All these Spitfire location questions

I fully agree with you Lancman. This is overkill !