A friend was going up in back back of the Spitfire as a birthday present. Five of us went up in the Spitfires.com chase plane, the Gipps Airvan G-IPPS. £110 each and well worth every penny. 

Spitfire TRIX ML295 G-CLBX has been operating out of Lee recently. It usually operates from Leeds and we get SM520 G-ILDA and/or BS410 G-TCHI.

Last Friday I lucky enough to be able fly alongside it.

I was browsing through the stuff at a local antique/junk shop this morning. They had a 1977 guide to the Shuttleworth Collection. I had a quick look at the entry for G-EBHX. It didn’t add anything to what we already know other than to say that it had previously been owned by “a miner in Kent”. Presumably, that was Ernest Kennett. One of the coal mines in Kent was quite close to Deal.

In his 1982 book “The Shuttleworth Collection”, David Ogilvy says that G-EBHX was “Found without engine in a shed near Deal in Kent by Squadron Leader L.A.Jackson, then the Collection’s manager”.

Walmer is right next to Deal and so it is likely that the aircraft had not travelled far and possibly did not fly after WW2. This is even more likely given the poor flying performance of the type.

Hope this helps in a small way.    

A detailed GA drawing was published in Aero Modeler years ago and were available through their plans scheme. This page is from a 1988 plans catalogue when the rights were owned by Argus Specialist Publications Ltd. They were then taken over by Nexus I think. Are all the plans/drawings still available from any source?

The 1943 date on the picture caption can’t be right. 

I found this picture on the net. It is said to be a CA-6, but who knows. The engine mount ring looks similar but not quite the same.

It’s another name for a reflector gun sight and so that’s probably what was meant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflector_sight

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