Has anyone got a cockpit/instrument panel shot of 184 they could post please?

There was some controversy over this aircraft when it first appeared but HP57 has summed it up, it was not really pretending to be a restored machine but a ‘post-production’ prototype. The mods incorporated fill an A4 sheet closely typed. A proprtion of them are Mr Meltons mods but the majority were derived from original later production, eg: the (Modification 442) reduced span ailerons.

An example of Mr Meltons mods would be the replacement of quick release cowling fasteners with screws. I have the whole list somewhere.

Ah – a difference of opinion! I was surprised at the suggestion from Mark 12 but I have not seen RR232 recently so cannot add anything.

Well there you go – it was being done in the late 80’s.

I was recently shown a photograph of a high-back Spitfire under restoration at Blackbushe in the late 1970’s. The top fuselage skin had been removed and very clearly you could see where the top third of the frames had been cut off and an extra ‘high-back’ bit butt-strapped on to it. Obviously original and done in the factory in wartime I do not know why, perhaps due to a surfeit of low-back frames?

That’ll be the SM520 at Thruxton – another two seater.

Mark

Yes but it was made at Airframe Assemblies and left there earlier this year. yes?

The Walrus W2718 was owned (and still is) by Mr Melton. G-HUNN was flown to Duxford from Roundwood after its sale but did not stay very long.