And further to my last question it has often been said that something is worth what someone is willing to pay on the day that it is offered for sale. It doesn’t have to make sense. And what it was worth last month or next month doesn’t matter either.
To quote Mark12 “Disproportionate, but that was market at the time.” Twas always thus. It didn’t seem sensible to me and probably wasn’t then. I have to assume that back in the day a complete late Griffon Spit was worth a lot but an incomplete one wasn’t for some reason. Maybe the expertise for reconstructing a new set of tail feathers for a late Spit wasn’t there then? I don’t know. It was a long time back.
A good friend in a rarely garrulous mood said that he flew Hurricanes over Stalingrad. I tried to get more but the shutters came down.
Mark
One thing puzzled me from the original run of this thread- what is so special about the Mk 22 empennage that its loss reduces the value of the project by 50%?
Steve
Dear Scotavia
Thankyou for posting. Unfortunately there were a couple of problems.
1. I only read your post the day after.
2. You never actually said where it was being shown. One has to assume one of the channels on Freeview, but if you want to try and chase it down the next day (or even on the day) you have given me ****** all in the way of hints.
Rule number one- if you want to send someone in a direction then please give them enough informatiion to go there.
Hugs and kisses
Pissed off Steve
Hey! I didn’t realise that this forum had an unacceptable word autoedit. Apparently bu(gg)er isn’t acceptable. ****** that.
PS I didn’t actually ask- you never did say what channel it was broadcast on!.
Thanks everyone. I will go with David Thompsons C-FARA. It definitely was’t a Bronco. Solid fuselage but with a horizontal stabiliser with a fin on each end. For a giggle, the local rag (the gazette) reported that the star of the event was the BBMF with the lancaster flanked by a spitfire and a hurricane. Bless.
Thankyou for that. Greatly appreciated.
I didn’t think ANYTHING would have been flying yesterday between some really nasty thunderstorms.
As a retired doctor (no longer a pilot, and spitfire enthusiast who is acutely aware of the dangers of smashing a Merlin up front into the ground) who has dealt with lots of casualties, a few aircraft crash victims (including military) and more burned folk than I care to remember the “further update” is massively better than I expected. He survived a fatal crash with burning petrol. I am amazed that he is as good as he is. He will view it differently.
She is booked for Teesside on May 28.
He (I assume he, although I have nothing to base this on) isn’t ours (unless you consider “ours” to include the other 43 sites at least that he posts exactly the same stuff on), or for that matter curious. Brazilian probably, although he often pretends otherwise. At least this time he states his subject clearly so you can find all of the pictures for yourself from the original sites he uses.
The War against Germany and Italy, Center for Military History 1988 (originally 1951). 478 Pages of download. Looks potentially interesting.
“This volume, compiled by Lt. Col. John C. Hatlem, USAF,
and Capt. Kenneth E. Hunter, with the assistance of Miss
Margaret E. Tackley, and edited by W. Brooks Phillips and Miss
Mary Ann Bacon, deals with the Mediterranean Theater of
Operations and the Middle East. It is divided into five sections:
(1) North Africa and the Middle East; (2) Sicily, Corsica, and
Sardinia; (3) Italy: 9 September 1943–4 June 1944; (4) Southern
France; and (5) Italy: 5 June 1944–2 May 1945. Each section is
arranged in chronological order. The written text has been kept
to a minimum. Each section is preceded by a brief introduction
recounting the major events set down in detail in the individual
narrative volumes of UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD
WAR II. The appendices give information as to the
abbreviations used and the sources of the photographs”
There may (or may not) be a float-equipped Spitfire somewhere in the Lake District.
X4620 delivered to 611 Squadron at RAF Digby on 7th November 1940 by a ferry pilot. If you need further detail of her activity with 611 you can have it.
Last time I looked I stopped at 42. Under a variety of names and apparent places of origin.
“As it remarks ‘What do you use for a flypast?'”
There wouldn’t be room for the clouds if an appropriate collection was established.
“Wasn’t the original forum thread taken down at the request of a third party? “
If it is the thread I remember, that is what I was told- apparently a person or persons at that time unknown got a bit huffy.
The SHT site offers that the replica is a Mk Vb similar to that owned by the Spitfire Society. Since it is cast from it it really ought to be.