Thanks viz

hindenburg I am not viz ! I dont think he uses the forum because I have posted things on here for him. If he does then I dont know which one of use he is !

Steve

Great shot of Mark flying low !!!

Steve.

I cant imagine that the damage to the leading edge of wing was caused by cricket stumps given that wing skins are 14 SWG with thick butt strap inside. You would have to give heafy wack with iron bar to replicate damage !! Wasnt april the first by any chance !!!

Steve.

Its more than just aircraft recoveries, though.

Includes the Channel Convoys (Peewit), Dunkirk beaches, colour film from an RAF pilot (plus his story) and some stuff at Uxbridge.

Thats good, I thought that it was one dig over 3 days !!

Steve.

Was it on BBC or ITV ? see if its on I player or something !

Steve

ok, now go back & read my post again.. only this time pay attention to EVERY word…. because what you’re apparently talking about has NOTHING to do with what I said.
& how many Spitfires have you actually worked on? Are you part of AA on IOW?

ZRX61, re-read your post & you are talking about something completely different from the original posting !! What you are on about is assembly of all major components that have already been repaired/refubished/restored or remade & yes no doubt could be done in a year. I have worked on 10 spitfire restorations & have done parts for majority of those flying. Yep part of the AA team & have 40yrs in aviation with 16 of those on historic aircraft.

Steve

Interesting Steve….Being involved with production work in my “normal” job it was always my understanding that it takes as much to do multiple parts vs a single part when a tool or jig setup has been made.Is it a case of the industry still being too small even though there is still a demand for finding wrecks and rebuilding them.Watching the BBC slideshow of the MkI Spits and the level of commitment to reuse as much small stuff as possible I would think some part cacheing would exist for future projects.
With our replica/reproduction we have templated as much as possible with the hope that it helps some other poor ****** down the track.

Hi Qldspitty i’m not saying that we keep nothing on the shelf but what we have is limited & you are right sometimes its just as quick to do multiple parts as it is to do one off’s. We have many hundreds of jigs & tools & templates if parts need to be remade. My point about restoration on fuselages is that if we have a complete fuse then it is stripped right down to each component part ,then each component stipped of all its bits & as you know a fuse is made up of many thousands of pieces. It is often quicker to make from new but that is not the game we are in,. We will always use original items as long as structual integrity is not compomised.

Steve.

Hi Matthias, wow what a great job. Looks like money no object over there !! Keep up the execellent work,

Steve