There is a professional looking Mosquito at RAF Elvington near York (or there was when i went there in 2000) It seems painstakingly rebuilt but it is not for me to say whether the procedures/parts/adhesives used were with a view to the option of future flight!

Much respect for the pilot and condolences to the family.

Thankyou to you all for giving basic sober details for the information of genuine ‘forumites’- i would rather hear such things from people who i regard as buddies than from the sometime manic misinformation and ‘dumbed down’ media for the masses.

Forum Moderation may be vital, but in moderating please appreciate that whilst speculation is innappropriate, expression of first hand observation may be entirely well intentioned and is, i think, a function of the grief or disbelief of those who are near to the incident, and perhaps even in genuine shock. People are by nature imperfect and the need to ‘tell’ is compelling. I consider myself hard as nails, nevertheless will admit to a fortnight of flashbacks following the Firefly unpleasantness. I can, unfortunately, remember everything in minute detail.

The flying must, and will, continue, and like life itself, will always be a little dangerous. Brave and dedicated souls.

Sounds like it’s coming together well..

..So it is able to stand on it’s u/c without the wings attached then? (someone was obviously clued up enough to make the unit a bit more practical to transport by road than the genuine article)

(Graham don’t know where you are situated but Shuttleworth collection’s MkV is hors de combat with an engine rebuild– if you get finished this year you might be able to recoup some of your costs by having a static display there…. These days they seem to be a bit more adventurous… They even let those noisy smelly jets display sometimes…..)

Dave

Right have read a bit more of the previous comments now (i am a late-comer)

Glad that the exh.stub problems seem to be reaching a conclusion- the ‘music’ would have been decidedly compromised if you had had to ****** about with bifurcated stubs. Much preferable, if alignment permits it, to have six big round jobs, mustang style!

Cooling- I agree you are certainly going to need rads in the underwing pods- probably with discrete fans- it’s going to be a pain in the backside without it.

Good luck with that grp cowling & stack fires. Starting the engine THEN powering up the prop could leave flames going upwards rather than being blown back by the slipstream. A whole new world of engineering!

Re Seafire folding wings- closest i have is a photo of a MkIII taken from the front,, however i may have an exploded diagram somewhere, will have a look.

Each wing folds in two places- the wingtips fold ‘outwards’ to avoid contact between port/stbd wing in the folded position. But then you knew this already..

….In my (grudging) move from VHS to DVD there is slight frustration that at ‘standard quality’ the disc will only hold around 120 mins of video..

— So for this filum I have the choice of moving to a lower quality setting (240 mins) or holding the recording on 2 separate discs (which seems to obviate what i was trying to achieve, which is saving space..!)

Progress? Ha!

So no sign of the ‘tongue in cheek FW190 that isn’t quite certificated yet’ then..!?