Many thanks, unfortunately he does not know who it is selling them, he said that about 60 of these crankcases were found somewhere a few years ago and they are from that lot. He has a very interesting web site incidentally.

Pete

As you say Pete a very interesting web site I wonder if he knows about the Stuka main spar sections in the war museum yard in Valletta?.The other one was in the yard recently cleared at Kirkop. Both Malta.

Does any one have access to, or better still, be willing to sell, a set of crimping tools for Plessey Breeze connectors?

Wartime examples had solder fittings; postwar are crimped.

Thanks for any help!

Bruce

Hi Bruce trying repeatedly to pm you re your pliers etc I also need some instruments etc but I keep getting the message your box is full and therefore you aint speaking to anyone ?.can you pm with another contact please.

Mike

By heck its many years since I saw that beasty ground running and fast taxying along the runway tail trying to lift.(very hairy !!!!).

Very interested to know what is happening with her ?.

Mike

Right den, I’d better sharpen me axe:D

Anon.

I have a large angle grinder/cutter and a portable generator if you need one ?.

Mike

No then to come down to earth (sorry to be the one)say you did manage to win the lottery or be wealthy enough to want to seriously upset your neighbours with this beast.Where would you put it ?.there aint many places that you could put it probably less than a handfull in the country big enough to handle it let alone really want it ?.
It states its life expired therefore its value drops by megga amounts what is the current value of scrap aluminium and what is still operational that might want spare engines etc ?.MMM ?. not a lot I can think of.If you could conceivably operate one I can see the CAA loving the application and bogging down the applicant with a minefield of paperwork for the next ten years !!!.Let alone who would you find approved to fly it ?.

In short it strikes me a lot like the engine advertised for sale as being the one and only prototype engine from the original TSR2 a snip at £1,000,000 and yes many museums would love to have it but realisticaly take a few noughts off the end and you may get some interest.

Lots of nice metal coming onto the market but please where the hell do they get the valuations from ? They have sold many of these types of aircraft before Quote. Yes who to Godafi ??

Unless I have missed the news a lot there aint that many lottery winners who could afford one !!!.

I would think a more practical proposition is the one quoted further down the article on two serviceable aircraft for sale.Not the operational one with spares for $650,000 but the flyable one requiring assembly for $175,000 I would not think thats to bad a price for a flyable Mitchell ?.And dismantled makes it even easier to ship it to the UK.

A large number of us chipped in a few quid towards saving an Airliner from Blackpool so why dont we do the same sort of thing with worth while warbirds that need saving ?. How many of us are share holders in effect in the many millions it cost for the Vulcan so why not in effect sponsor other pieces of history?. There is a lot of talk at times on the forum about why isnt this saved and why isnt that saved.Well if no one else is doing it step up to the mark and put the sun glasses on the queens head when you open your wallets !!!!!

Thanks Tim, I didn’t forget them (or Austin, Belgium, & Canada), but the point I’m getting at is where would you draw the line at putting up memorials at different sites for one aircraft type and how difficult it is really to pick out one site to do so.
I do believe the factories and their workers should have some form of memorial though.

It dosen’t help when they come up with ideas such as above, where it has to be huge and costs £2 million (can you buy a whole Spit for that?), it turns people against the idea of memorials at all.

The actual location for any memorial is 1-1 and at the birth place of R.J.Mitchell .Without his design skills and tireless work there would never have been a Spitfire for the few to fight with. 2million for a 100 foot spitfire indeed another license to print money from a local authority who seem to have a surplus of money and nothing better to do with it.