surprised no one noted this from The Birmingham post August 16th

http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/postfeatures/2012/08/17/final-push-in-battle-to-save-mark-x1v-spitfires-65233-31629022/

Well there’s optimisum for you !! Wouldnt do much for currant spitfire prices !! But then again they are only MKXIV’s.

Steve.

Sorry to post a boring parts ID but I’m stuck with this one. Although I’m trying to do a MK1X Cockpit the part I have doesn’t appear to be much use to me as it maybe an engine starter socket mount? A fellow member has suggested this but I was told initially it was something to do with an oil cap ?
Moving on. I have recently obtained a set of 3 Seafire blades with the reference RA10271 which were fitted to Seafire 46’s and 47’s. Two of the blades though are still screwed into what I can only describe as large ciruclar metal collars. Has any one got plans that show how the propellors were fitted to the hub using these collars.
Is anyone working on a Seafire project
Looking forward to the invaluable help which I always get from fellow members.

Hi ,the pitch of the three holes looks very similar to ground supply hook up mount, but not like spifire one’s i’ve seen .

Steve.

What my picture earlier in the thread indicates is that they were broken up further north, just north of the itchen bridge.

Hi, I’ve just found some cine footage on you tube taken from red funnel ferry of the 2 princesses at calshot

steve

What my picture earlier in the thread indicates is that they were broken up further north, just north of the itchen bridge.

There was certainly one if not two at calshot , but you may well be right about where they were broken up.

Steve.

Think it was 1966 when I went to Southhampton and took the hovercraft across to Ryde, interesting journey. Remember seeing the 2 Saunders Roe Princess Fuselage hulks cocooned there. Got some slides I took at time (Kodachrome ,——somewhere here-in house) So I guess they must have been towed or a boat load back to Southampton to be scrapped. Shame !! as they were stored for many years.

Anybody know any more about their final demise ? Nice pics !! HP 111

Bill T.

Hi I think you will find that the Hovercraft you took went to Cowes & not Ryde. I remember seeing them cocooned on the slipway at Cowes. I think they were broken up at Calshot Spit at the entrance to southampton water.

Steve

I assume that the emergency blow down bottle had been used ? But if up locks had failed to rotate enough to allow gear to come down would it make any differance ? I expect Bruce can tell me.

Steve

Whilst it is not a past time exclusive to (T) Spits to end up on their belly, it almost seems to be a rite of passage for restored a/c.

Is there a possibility that the positioning of the front cockpit controls, to accommodate the rear cockpit, somehow compromises the operation of the landing gear?

The IAC also had many wheels up incidents, could this be a Vickers design fault?

Given the value of a Spit and the cost of repairs, could the design authority carry out a mod for T IXs.

The undercarrage selector on a T9 is a different beast to a normal one. It sits on top of the datum longeron bracing channel. I think it is pushed forward to disengage the locks then pulled back towards pilot. I guess it could be awkward to operate as it sits next the curved cockpit combing skin.
I havnt seen a T9 with conventional selector in front cockpit ! I think Supermarine still carry the design authority.

Steve