coldkiwi, the NZ Army had at least 12 Centurion tanks. They have the RR Meteor. 🙂

I think there is still one parked up outside the museum at Waiouru.

Trolly Aux, the bold type in Ian’s letter should tell you who it is. Somebody who is rebuilding a Typhoon rear fuselage. There are three rear fuselages being built at the moment. Typhoon Legacy and Jet Age Museum are using components built by Typhoon Legacy.

So that just leaves one…..

John Green, no storm and no tea cup. 

Typhoon Legacy have been accused of telling massive fibs and the other Typhoon group involved refuse to stand behind their claims. They’d rather ban people on Facebook and delete their messages so that the story is lost or at the very least disjointed.

Continual claims of being the “only” airworthy Typhoon restoration and the “last” of it’s kind being restored to the air, over many years, with no acknowledgment of other groups restoring Typhoons (there are at least three Typhoons being worked on as we speak), has led to Ian having to issue the above letter.

Pod casts, TV appearances, Newspaper and magazine articles all claim that there is one and only one Typhoon restoration in the world.

Have a look at the Typhoon Legacy FB page and read the post about the book being written for the other Typhoon group. That was a real eye opener for me!

This is a very frustrating situation to be in and it needs to stop. 

As you can probably tell from Ian’s Youtube videos, he is a very practical person who loves sharing his skills and knowledge. He helps other warbird restorations as much as he can. To be cast as a bit of a villain is painful and I’m sure it has been a tough decision to go forward with this letter, knowing how private he really is.

Well, most of the wheel stayed on. The outboard side bead departed rapidly off the screen and hopefully didn’t go too far.

Split bead wheel on the Tigercat? I thought it was a split rim wheel.

Haven’t seen Bill Hohepa for years! Nice one Bill.

Careful there too 🙂 Plenty of short body UH-1’s run the 48ft rotor system with the long tailboom. LOL.

My vote goes with MicroMesh too. Used it on a Spitfire upper window.

You don’t use a watch to measure how long it takes, you use a calendar. Lots of elbow grease, lots of time, great product though.

It did replace a gun I guess, just not the Mid-Upper Turret. Perhaps they got confused or excited? What was it, a 30cal handheld at that hatch?

exmpa, but wasn’t if fun when you dropped your buoys in the right place and killed the sub before he could try and hide in a thermal layer! Haha. I felt sorry for them sometimes. I remember playing with a Portugese sub once and we dropped the unit (little blue practice bomb thing with 6 codes you could program) to tell him he was dead. Hit his sail and damaged one of his antennas! LOL. Could read the number on the sail the water was so clear.

We found him and cornered him within a few hours.

But yes, 20000eshp is noisy.