Really impressive Cees – you seem unstoppable at the moment. Looks like it has outgrown your loft now! Well done – bet you can’t wait to paint it 😀
Elliott,
Your words were prophetic. The cockpit will now be put on display in ouw museum in the same building where the cockpit is being built now. This way the quality of work will be higher as opposed to working in a dark cluttered attice running up and down to flights of stairs and into the garden and vice versa.:rolleyes:
No pics as I still haven’t been able to put them up (should look into the photobucket option soon) but the frames are almost finished and after
that it is time to put them all in position and then the fuselage will ermerge in skeletal form. I am really enjoying this.:)
Watch this space.
Cees
This is the aircraft Frank Furlong crashed in isn’t it?
Also that it had as standard Mk XIV Spitfire fuselage. Any parts of the wings found. Is there a lot of wreckage still down there or just fragments.
Cees
Tony,
That’s an unique project, care to share some pics?
Cheers
Cees
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=33669&highlight=Spitfire+RM873
For some background info.
Cees
This is a great project, congratulations.
Keep us informed.
Cees
Thanks for the input chaps.
Exciting times ahead, it would be great to see a scramble of
half a squadron of Mk I Spits with perhaps some Hurricanes
intermingled. Despite the recession it looks like the warbird
industry is alive and kicking!
Cees
Yuck, jets:dev2:
Any photographs of scrapped French Halifaxes (or Privateers)?
Cheers
Cees
Dream on.
The Chatham Islanders consider the wreck to be part of their history, and would react quite adversely if there was any suggestion of removal.
They are rough-and-tough guys ( and the women are even more so), and any salvage party are likely to end up as bait in the local crayfish pots.
Fair enough, 😉
But leaving things to rot outside for decades doesn’t show much interest in preserving these components.
Just my view:cool:
Cees
When we recovered the 300 Sqn (Polish) Lancaster we also found a Webley revolver. According to the only survivor it was common use for the Polish crewmembers to carry one in case of having to bail out and take the opportunity to take some of the hated Germans with them.
Don’t know if such an opportunity has ever taken place.
Cheers
Cees
Neil,
Object in first three pics is a supressor box.
Last two pics are part of oxygen economiser
HTH
Cheers
Cees
How about: absolutely fantastic!
Very atmospherice cloudsetting.
cheers
Cees
Yes, Rob,
They certainly learned that from the Halifax/Lancaster bombload debate
Cheers
Cees
About ten years ago I visited North Weald and in the hangar next to the Casa (Spanish Heinkel) there were to BMW 801 radial engines in obviously recovered but fantastic condition. I was told they were owned by Mr Arnold.
Any info what happend to these?
Cheers
Cees
The sticky type.;)
😮
Cees
the very obvious, but non the less very secret goal of XH558’s visit to the Netherlands is the imminent selection of an F-16 replacement………….
As the Vulcan is, until now, unriveled in its performance and appearance, Dutch politicians have asked VTTS to demonstrate G-VLCN at Volkel AFB.
It is not unthinkable that AVRO’s production line will be re-opened once a new Dutch order for the impressive bomber is considered.
As a Dutch tax payer, I would be more than happy to contribute to the icon of military aviation, the shear seight (and sound) of which would absolutely terrify Taliban!! The idea of buying Vulcan’s competitor, JSF, would horrify me:rolleyes:
Aerovet
I’d rather spend my taxmoney on Victors.:diablo:
Groeten uit Amstelveen
Cees