It always amuses me the general negative reaction to many of the rebuilds, new manufacture or general research into rare types of aircraft. My interest lies in Typhoons aswell, which may or may not be known :), and whenever any queries come up the Sabre always jumps to the top of the pile as to why a second complete Typhoon will never happen. Perhaps it is the optimist in me but there a number of very good engines in existence to complete the job…however with no structure in front of you it would be very hard to convince anyone to part with their engine. However, if you had the structure of a Typhoon sat there waiting for an engine they would be more willing to listen to you. Will it ever happen? I hope so (and I still plan on it 12 years after being hooked) but without drawings or a substantial recovery it would be very hard. We all have to start somewhere…drawings are a necessity and in particular main cockpit spar drawings 🙂

Now if anyone happens to have a set of drawings or lots of Typhoon bits hidden in their shed I would love to hear from them 🙂

Interesting to see their response and trying their best to make it a rarer than it is…I could be wrong 🙂 but I don’t remember seeing any references to a Tempest II defending against V1’s!!! also Tempest II do have 2 aircraft but they also have in store another 2 that are privately owned…these are the ones that I believe were on the market at some point in the 90’s.

Reading between the lines in their reply and knowing what others were asking for a Tempest I wouldn’t be suprised if they were actually asking for a figure in the 100’s of thousands of dollars…however a figure of 50k would be nice (but I can’t see it somehow!!)

I thought this one had made its way to the US…good to see that it is still in Europe (for long?). As for value…a number of years ago (in the 90’s) there were a couple of the Tempests reportedly for sale for £40,000 each. A couple of years ago I was quoted $500,000 for the Tempest currently in the US (at the time I think the wings had been restored but nothing else). Neither sold for the price…could it be because of lack of knowledge about the type? expertise on the type?

I would love to take it off their hands…alas even without asking and even in todays climate I can imagine that the price is still high. Will be interesting to see if it is sold…

you wouldn’t happen to have any contact details for him would you? 🙂

haven’t heard of Aviation Artifacts…are they still around?

That looks like a new engine for the list…something to prove exists still? Could this be the one that is with a collector in the Manchester area (reported to have blocks that a corroded like the pictures). Will add it to the list and hope it is another proved to exist.