Whatever the poster on proboard thought he saw at Opa Locka in Nov 2011, it wasn’t N836D, which is still grounded in Charlotte over a year later sadly.

I do hope they manage to get it back up and running again, it made a magnificent sight (and sound) blasting out of Oshkosh a couple of years back.

I hear the Mystery Ship is very nice. 🙂

I wonder who did the work on it? 😉

An interesting post on the Antique Airplane Association’s blog tonight.

“Thats all for now, but I have details on quite a few other projects underway, including a Gee Bee Model Z, a Gee Bee model Y, and a Napier Heston racer!”

http://www.antiqueairfield.com/articles/show/1470-pete-groves-blog-golden-age-projects

My hat is off to the man that was leading this Squadron.

My hat is off to the teenager who spent all of 10 minutes in his bedroom knocking this up using the cut-and-paste function in Photoshop.

It’s on display at the Smithsonian.

Not so (I made 3 visits there last week!)

The gliders on display in the NASM are replicas. Probably because the originals were buried in situ. 🙂

Well, the one in the photo once got as far as Calcutta…………

Last I heard all the guys had been laid off and Tim was there on his own, that was back end of last year.

A shame. Does he still have the Beaufighter project? I seem to remember that the Viscount left a while back. He was working on the Chilton replica and just finishing the Demon when I was there last – since both are now flying and based at OW, I would assume that the DH-2 is now the only active project.

The last time I visited, about 5 years ago, they had a DH-2 project on the back-burner.