Now if we had a spare Comet of the same provenance I might be a little less reserved about flying it -unfortunately we don’t .

Ken Fern and the Comet Racer Project team might have something to say about that David!

Here we go again. What a bunch of old women you lot really are.

If the collection want to fly, drive or ride any of their collection then they indeed should be doing exactly that. That is what the collection is all about after all isnt it.

Why the hell would we need a replica when we have the real deal right here in this country and pilots with the skills to fly them.

They belong in the air and thats where they should be until they no longer work or can no longer be repaired to fly.

I will let you all get back to your knitting in peace.

So will you be writing to the Smithsonian to suggest that they make both the Spirit of St Louis and the Wright Flyer airworthy?

and of course the Comet was always fitted with a composite forward tank cover……

I’ll get back to my knitting now – I’m rewiring the jeep

It does beg the question that with so precise a replica built to original specifications (eg all wood, no more metal than that was originally present in the design etc) do you really need to fly the priceless and historic original?

I stress – a new production airframe built to original specification

If you didn’t know the airframe above was a repro, would you be able to identify it as such?

If it looks, flies and sounds like a Comet etc etc

Do we call a metal Mosquito an aluminium artifice rather than a wooden wonder?

If it wasn’t for a billionaire coming along and agreeing to a wild idea proposed by Avspecs, I doubt any of the three Mosquitoes under restoration in NZ right now would have made anywhere near the progress they have to date. Relying on public donations seems to me to be a completely unrealistic option to raise the $10 million plus required just for the build and then the operating and maintenance costs on top of that.

The only way I can see you raising the funds is by tagging it onto another moneymaking theme – for example did any Manchester United players ever fly a Mosquito? If they did, plan to make it in his colours and sell Man U T-****s with Mossies on the logo to raise funds. Or something along those lines. Just asking for donations for a Mosquito will bring it in in dribs and drabs, surely. Or find yourselves a billionaire…

That might work if you wanted Man City fans to fund the restoration of a Junkers Ju52……:eek:

Me missing the point? I think I’m one of the few people here who gets the point. ;D I agree with you. My comment was just to correct the assumption made that the woodwork was all done by Glyn Powell alone.

Why are you people wasting your breath on thinking about yet another flying Mosquito? There will be about five flying in a few years time. Put the efforts into something more feasible like recovering a Stirling form a lake, it’ll be cheaper and take less time.

People are wasting their breath talking about an airworthy Mosquito because at the current time it seems unlikely that there will be an airworthy example in the UK – it’s country of birth and for whom the Mosquito remains an iconic aircraft along with the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster

simple – and really no need for the venom…..

OK – heres some TB252 questions for the roundel police

I would check with the ‘serial police’ first. 🙂

doh – don’t know where I got that from.

I suspect that there will always be a heightened interest in TB382 because of its association with Raymond Baxter on operations,

Perhaps they’d better rethink the scrapping of XV409……..