Some years ago when I was working for a small publisher I had a call from someone who told me he had the rights to the book and it’s follow up and was going to remake the film properly. So far so good….

Then he told me how he was going to make 12 new Mosquitos for the film

From that point any hope of ever taking him seriously vanished.

Was his name Glyn Powell by any chance??

His daughter actually did! She lives near Tunbridge Wells!

Hmm, wonder what that one is. Could be any type of Klimov and it doesn’t look like it might fit a Yak 3. There’s no denying there will be Klimovs in museums and obviously this one has been rigged as a static display engine but that is an ocean away from being in any condition to fly or having the logbook and maintenance records all signed up to date. Sadly, without all the paperwork any engine is just a museum piece.

It’s a Klimov M-105 for the Yak-1 that was/is being restored to fly for the Historic Aircraft Collection (I read some time ago that It’s for sale-so it might be with someone else by now) )

I feel sure that as soon as people can talk about it, it’ll be all over the web!

Martin Baker invented the ejection seat

There are an awful lot of metal parts to find to rebuild a Mosquito -the easiest way by far to to find a donor aircraft in the same way as KA114. I hope they go that route .

They’ve got one

It feels a bit surreal to me-i’m feeling like I will wake up at some point!
There is no superlative adequate enough to describe what that team has achieved!
Here’s to many, many years of it tearing up the skies.