NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard

Rather like the folks at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, who launched a campaign to stamp out flying at Bentwaters even though they booked the Spitfire to appear at their events. They tried to rationalize this by saying that all the other aircraft based there were considerably noisier than the Spitfire.

That’s a shame. Hopefully the excellent Castle museum can pick up some of the aircraft being disposed of.

I thought the local NIMBYs had pretty much killed Bentwaters as an active airfield

As well as the Mosquito Lyle has done quite a few of these, not just for the NMUSAF but aircraft from other collections too. They are well worth a look.

http://acicockpit360.com

AFAIK is has not yet been ground run or installed in an airframe. TFC currently have 4 Sea Furies I believe, so plenty of scope for it to find a home eventually.

DH86 Express G-AEFH ‘Neptune’ in 1938

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AEFH.pdf

The Sanders reckon that Argo is about 20mph slower with the R-2800 that it was when it had the R-3350 fitted. Another Sea Fury, a T20 for Chuck Greenhill, is currently being rebuilt by them at Ione with an R-2800 fitted, it should fly fairly soon.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?120996-Dicey-PA474-moment-Remember-this