Irishman comes over to the mainland to work on the roads, after about 3 weeks he phones home to see how she is keeping. Just before he rings off he asks her if she is missing hime and how is she getting on with the vibrator he bought her She replies “OK but it’s knocked 3 of me teeth out so far”
Not forgetting wingspars, frame 5, ailerons, engine mounts from vertical to horizontal, longeron strengtheners remove to fit Merlin bearers, fin, ailerons, wingtips the list goes on and on
All jets should be scrapped and recycled into Spitfires I was going to include scrapping P51’s but the American matearial spec would fall far short of the standard to build Baby buggies never mind aircraft
TB863 started life on the production line as a Mk9 along the the line she was engined with a packard and subsequently became a high back Mk16 with an intermediate rudder!!!!
The wood would have originally have been coated in a varnish or a coat of red dope, the fabric would then have been applied using red medium/ non taughtening dope and the build up coats would have been the same red dope. A silver coat/s would then have been applied. Originally I believe tinted dopes would have been used to give fabric surfaces thier top colour, nowadays after the silver coat a cellulose grey primer is used followed by cellulose top coat. It should allways be cellulose for ease of making fabric repairs to control surfaces.
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