Hangar 11’s Spitfire PR.XI G-MKXI/PL965 was your machine.
Duxford Sunday 11th December:
More work today preparing the DAS/Monarch Britannia for painting.
DAS report she will enter Airspace on Jan. 3rd ( see: http://das.org.uk/painting-the-brittania/ )
A couple of today’s visitors:
Don’t forget the Duxford 132 Bus, though it is Sundays only:
Duxford Monday 5th December:
In Hangar 5 this morning, another stage in the Victor project saw the removal of the horizontal tail from the fin:
Some of Hangar 3’s fighters:
Remarkable fact: Buchon ‘Black 2’ and Victor XH648 were both built in 1959.
TFC’s Facebook page reports that Sea Fury T.20 WG655 is now on course to return to flying staus.
What sort of engines does the Beaufighter need?
Covered many times, most recently at:
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?140368-TFC-Beaufighter&highlight=BEAUFIGHTER
It’s a bit of a grey area..
Would you believe there’s a website devoted to this:
You are, of coarse, quite corect.
Duxford Tuesday 22nd November:
Cold, wet and windy, but there’s always something to see:
The Victor’s bomb doors were opened this morning, and the long process of inspection/disassembly continues.
This is the chaff dispenser being removed from the lower nose section. It contained four canisters of Window for radar ‘countermeasures’
Elevator tip and tail ‘bullet: