It is remotely possible that the line of Fuselages in the left foreground could contain that of TFC’s example (No 82) going by the numbers of those in the other lines….

Tom

‘213 got the Spinner as she already had the ex-Charles Church Battle prop ready to go and the ex-‘501 prop was pretty well at the end of her life and went into the spares package for the aircraft

Thanks for the comments chaps. Pete and BHHH made the decision to take her to Biggin to complete the flight testing as it is rather boggy on the grass here at Booker at present. I’m very relieved to say that she has performed well thus far and the Permit to Fly should be issued today. The next week or so will be spent building up some hours on her to shake-out any gremlins that might creep into the works.

From Oregon, to Kemble, to Booker, to Chelsea for ‘Masterpiece’ then on to Biggin now she’s done a fair bit of travelling, pleasing that the last journey was by air! 🙂

Hello Dave,

Hope this works, linking to a shared folder on my Onedrive account, here goes…

http://1drv.ms/1T7LYpO

I’m not sure how true it is but I do recall one of the chaps from Napier Power Heritage saying that the Sabre that is now in Florida that Andy is working on for Kermit was supposed to be the last to have run when it was used to get the prototype Deltic-engined train up to speed so as not to put too greater load on it, I do remember a date of mid to late fifties.

It is also the engine that was on display in the Acton office foyer for a long time, we had a local lady pop in a couple of months ago thanks to a gent by the name of Eldridge who is her neighbour, she started at Napier’s early in the war and took great joy telling us all that she made a cup of tea for “Bee” Beamont and was even more thrilled to hear that the engine she walked past every day for years is still around. I’d like to know how the “enterprising type” managed to get it out of the Foyer when Napier’s packed-up and into his/her garage as that’s supposed to be where it was found by the late Mr Grace 😉

After she had completed a full inspection in the hanger at Cranfield Bedfordshire. This should all be in her log book, mid 60’s.

I started as a volunteer erk washing the floor with av gas, I finished when she left the place.

When you have had the best.

Just bring her back.

Did it definitely run whilst there wally-to? Only I thought she was missing her radiator?

From what I recall he has sold the following British aircraft over the past few years:

Spitfire IX PL344 – to Tom Blair
Spitfire IX TE517 – to G2 Trust
Lysander V9312 – To ARC Duxford

There was somebody interested in MV262 for a while but I’ve not heard anything further.

It’s taken a while but here’s a short video of one of the engine runs we carried out on MT818

https://youtu.be/LP_mKHKF6lw

It won’t be long now, weighing on Tuesday…