Could be Ia, IIa or Va….

You’ve got a nice one there, well done 🙂

As an aside, does anybody know if the outer safety surround was originally finished in red back in the day? or would it have just been the gun button finished in said colour? Cheers.

Tom

Following on from what Mike J said, Gary Larkins and his team also recovered sections of an Early B-17 including a complete tail section from a lake or river, not to mention a Lend/Lease P-39 which ditched in a lake in Canada on its way to Russia, though I had heard that the Canadians were loathe to let it cross the border to the US post-recovery.

There’s also:

The Wildcat recovered from the lake in Northern Ireland

IL-2 recovered from Lake Balaton in Hungary

Tom

Is there any high performance spits flying today, more power, lighter than stock??

The only ones I can think of are Charles Church’s EE606 and also AB910 when ACM Wheeler owned her. Both were fitted with four-bladed props and EE606 had clipped wings, not sure about AB910s guise when it was used for racing post-war, or what engines they used, was ‘606 using a 35?

The fighter jockeys who used to fly the “clipped, clapped and cropped” LFVbs used to say they’d outperform just about anything at low/medium level in a dogfight, I recall one story of a MKXIV getting trounced by an LFVb in a mock-dogfight but I’m assuming that the straight-line speed wasn’t as good, say as a Tempest, seing as they weren’t used against the V1s.

Tom

Thanks for the info Chris, very interesting as I had started reading up on the subject after reading a short article in FP some time ago, unfortunately the book I bought seems to have gone awol.

Tom

She’s currently in storage in southern England after changing hands earlier this year. No plans have been made on a restoration as yet AFAIK.

Tom

The Woodford Lanc is still with Kermit at Fantasy of Flight in numerous containers, very much on the back-burner.

The Mossie at AvSpecs is a new build from Glynn Powell’s beautiful fuselage molds, a real labour of love. It is based on the remains of KA114 found in Canada.

http://www.mossie.org/KA114.htm

The story of Glynn’s bid to get more Mossie’s where they belong can be found here:

http://www.mossie.org/NZ2308.htm

Tom

Makes me kind of glad that AR will be fitted with 10″ wheels in some ways though what we do with the later marque Spits in the pipeline is another matter.

Who was it who made the new batch of 10 1/4″ hubs a few years back? Was it Microscan? or a company who are still in existence? Just wondering who would take the job on.

Tom