Interesting. To think we had two in the UK at one time.

Not so. Plane Sailing’s had already departed by the time TFC’s arrived.

Unless, of course, you’re referring to TT346 and TT349 in late-1945/early 1946 😉

Just curious nostalgair2, where in this little fairy tale world of yours will the money to pay for 20 years of hangarage costs come from? And which aircraft will Duxford push outside to rot into the dirt over the next two decades in order to house the airframe?

Yet again, this old chestnut that was started by the revisionistas of DAS! In the early days it was NOT the Duxford Aviation Society – the site at Duxford was created and operated by a triumvate of three organisations – Cambridgeshire County Council, the Imperial War Museum and the East Anglian Aviation Society who were in existence for at least four years until politics in the form of a very nasty coup saw the EAAS forced out.

This period of the museum’s history is often whitewashed over or conveniently forgotten!
(EAAS member 0013)

So are you saying that DAS were not involved with the airshows in the early days? I seem to remember a company called Duxford Displays Limited. Or is this just an “old chestnut” and a “whitewash”?

When I joined DAS in 1978, this was after the days of EAAS, but I distinctly remember helping out at airshows on behalf of DAS/DDL.

That boy needs to stop fondling Sea Furies, he’ll go blind.

WG428 🙂

It certainly looks like the lower part of a P-51 tailwheel assembly, with the brackets at the top being where the cables for steering are connected.

Trawling the web in an idle moment, I came up with these shots of the original Comets.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4138993

http://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2011/04/empire-aristocrat-typewriter-makes.html

http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=19442