Hmm wasn,t it like 2000 hours to rebuild one?Put that at 80 australian dollars an hour.
The Black Cat Pby,s did the same thing with beer bottles in the PTO.The aussie P40 pilots used to use primative napalm.The first one dropped a full drop tank and the one following it would strafe it with incendiary rounds.Nice little flare up they reckoned.
RLM colours …arrrrgggggg.Nurse,nurse…..My brain hurts.
Wow it really looks like you have your head screwed on right Ali.Maybe you need to do up a website that records all the major wrecks around the English isles.Something in the likes of Pacific Ghosts maybe.Keep up the good work mate.Really enjoying seeing this other side of the restoration bizz.
Ditto guys.Found a few variations of BCG with our Spitty bits as well.
Love to help Beau but we are having the same dramas over here with our Spit.Can,t get enough shoes on the floor due to illness,work,babies etc.Wish you the best of luck with the enslavery of others.Wohahahahahaha!!!!
“Remains at Gallipoli found in 2005 roadworks were fragmentary and -according to the Turkish authorities- may not have been human at all.” Oh my God..They found Simpsons Donkey!!!!!!!!!!The travesty of it all. 😮 :rolleyes:
Sure it wasn,t a C160 Transall?
Run away,it,s hideous!!!
Me and the first two bits made for A58-27 taken last year.Both me and the Spit have gotten a tiny bit larger since then. 😮
It,s only us Aussies that you have to watch out for….Welcome mate and hope you enjoy the atmosphere..Also don,t mention the Spit***e word to much.. :diablo:
There is a good section at Spitfire spares.com which have all the Spitfire part numbers decyphered.I think a Warbird Almanac would be the way to go or a links page with links to all the good sites.Or all the info downloaded into an online database for us all to add to.Maybe WIKI would be the way to go.Works well with one of the flightsims I fly.
Cheers Tom.Good to know that my memory isn,t all as bad as what I thought…Now what day is it?????Yep that doco had to be early with the amount of sideburns in it.First time I had ever seen Bader and Johnny Johnston in a doco.Their is a good one around called “Luftwaffe Aces” that has Steinhart and Hartman in it.You can still see the steely glint in their eyes.Legends all of them.
Ascender??
Cheers guys.You can still see that sparkle in her eyes.Daz I too remember the story of the Erk who flew the spit.Flypast?????Had a little bit of training on the squadron hack,a captured Italian biplane I think before hand.Flew the spit to a nearby airfield to replace sparkplugs I think.Only read the first part of the story.
Just an update.A polish oil exploration team has apparently found her..apparently…http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86953