I seem to remember that back in the late 70’s that most elegant of flying machines the DH 90 Dragonfly was thought to be extinct, and then first one was found in Portugal and then another appeared, from where I cannot remember.

Richard

Im’e having an anorak moment here and pointing out that the field they fly over when they first drop to low level has ‘tram lines’ all over it. These tracks are left by the tractor when the crop is sprayed with insecticide, fungicide or herbicide. This activity did not happen in those far off days.

Richard

Thanks for these, its nice to think that all survive with several still airworthy. The Hurri and Fulmer were not even very old then!

Richard

What is this item made of, from the pictures it looks like stainless that has been grit blasted which seems an unlikely material to have used in wartime.

Richard

I think people are possibly missing the point here, as I read it Bruce is asking about projects that specifically have a webpage, blog, or some kind of social page that the progress of the restoration can be viewed or followed on and linked here to.
Just naming restorations is easy enough.

The Museum Of Flights’ Comet and Cutlass restorations are ambitious, and can be viewed here, http://rbogash.com/restore_capab.html

Your right Pagen, I had missed the point, so to get back on track here is the site for the P-61 Black Widow restoration. The work is fantastic but I find the web site a bit red for my liking.http://www.maam.org/p61.html

Richard

The Duxford Blenheim must rank highly for determination, dedication and love, in fact its been a series of major rebuilds.
The first one was a huge feat in many many ways with challanges in the engines, and airframe, only for it to be lost in an accident.
So they started again with a second airframe, with only some parts carried over from the first aircraft, only to have that one badly damaged in another accident .
Thankfully its on its way to recovery. Hats off to all concerned and I cannot wait for it to return to the sky.

Richard

I guess it was inevitable that the time would come when these were retired, more modern aircraft can do the same job at much less cost. My personal plea is that the Andover finds a good home in a museum painted in the two tone brown paint scheme they wore when in squadron service.
Incidentally while I was at Old Sarum yesterday a Dakota was doing circuits at Boscombe, looked like a Air Atlantique one. Do ETPS use one in their sylabus?

Richard

I wonder if this leg had double torque links, you can see where the lugs have broken off from the lower section which would have made the pair on one side with another pair on the other.
Some Lockheed types look similar to this see here for those on a Ventura http://rnzaf.hobbyvista.com/venwalk.html

Richard