You think you have fun with a model how do you think we felt when 19 of the beggars appeared at Woodford in all sorts of shapes and guises.There where some K1 and some B2 and at least one odd ball as I recall there was a 20th airframe an all whit one but not sure what we did with it as I seem to remember it was the only one to come in by road the rest flew from Radlet followed by loads of lorries full of bits.
My memory is a bit rusty these days but I seem to recall XL 231,232,189,190 amongst others 232 was the first to go back into the sky(I think) on its first test flight it lost its port air brake over a farmers field near Macclesfield and then a week before the airshow blew out about 100 square feet of tarmac from the runway intersection during a practice session.
It then sadly ended its days in a funeral pyre at Marham because someone decided to transfer fuel to the pods on the way out to the end of the runway and number three threw a blade and bounced it off the tarmas back through the pod and wing (Nasty)a Victor from one side and a black burnt nothing from the other at least the crash crews and the buldozers on the fire dump got plenty of practice.
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