Many thanks indeed Roobarb… if its any consolation, I never doubted you or the rest of the HFC team 😉

Cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

Who are HFC? :confused:

Perhaps you meant ARC?

Lovely shots of a lovely scheme 😉

Oh, nice sunshine as well 🙂

So the RAF is outsourcing its flypast requirements to civilian operators ?

Sounds a bit unlikely, seing as they operate half a squadron themselves.

Some mistake surely ?

Yes, some mistake… I only work for the operator of said Spitfire, pre-flighted it, put 208 lites of Avgas in and strapped the pilot in so how would I know. :rolleyes:

I think we are all agreed that she looks sensational!!!

Is her stablemate nearing a flight test yet roobarb. i also see both have been booked for shoreham this year.

Not for a while. When she was “Americanizzzzed” they threw a lot of the correct Buchon systems away. You can’t just nip down to halfords for these original bits and they are proving “challenging” to source as some other forum members are aware. Anyone with Buchon or Bf109 Hydraulic components lurking in their attic or propping their study door open could do worse than to get in touch with ARC. Unlike the Spitfire rebuilding “industry” there is no similar rebuilding network for ‘109 family members. And yes we have tried the 76 year old Texan guy (Connie) with the hangar full. We’d love to fit a four blade prop as well to our one but we don’t have one. I don’t suppose any forumites have one on their wall…:D

that’s the wrong grey…………….

Can’t be as I took colour chips directly from John Major…:D

As others have said, it looks wonderful and I can’t wait to see it in person. Just out of curiosity, is this a long-term paint job or something applied for the BofB 70th anniversary year? Any chance of the second ‘Area 51’ Buchon (the one that still has it’s BofB movie mods) being painted up to make a pair?? Pretty please??

Yes its a long term paint job, we wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of a full bare metal strip if it wasn’t. The new owner requested that I research the B of B film scheme it wore (because it’s his aircraft and he likes that scheme) and specifically if it wore anything other than the previously listed identity of Red 7. Previous correspondance regarding a scheme for G-AWHE had given me a contact with excellent pictures of both Aircraft at Lydd in August 1968 and lo and behold there was C.4K 102 as Yellow 10. This was followed up by further images of Yellow 10 kindly supplied by Buchon archivists, Peter R.Arnold, Gary Brown, and Tony Clarke. There is little chance of the other aircraft appearing in it’s B of B film scheme as it has already been previously discussed and the owner wants the one that we have now painted it in. If you look at the Flypast mag (other publications may also feature it…;)) for February there is a picture of it and some background info.

Of course the Buchon looks at its best in colour…

We decided that as the majority of archive pictures were in B/W we would do the aircraft in a monochrome scheme as well. This nicely side-steps further debate on colour authenticity and perceived shades and recollections of how they were…:p

Here’s some pictures of the new scheme, as you can see, like Bograt I have photo-shopped the rest of the airfield to give it a “period feel”…:D