BBMF Lanc, Hurri and looked like the Spit XVI over Helhoughton & West Raynham, what a superb sight, good job we didn’t leave early now 🙂 I assume they’re off to the Aylsham Show?

Hello Mike,

I tried to get in touch with Garth a while after he moved to the UK but couldn’t get hold of him either, Charles Darby, who sold him the project passed on what details he had but no joy.

Tom

Hello Dave,

If they are the same as the ‘Baby’ Spit exhausts then each segment is different as the ejector tubes are all angled differently from what I recall so they will need a full set from one side to pattern from if they are going to have any chance at all.

Pic attached of ‘213’s port side for reference, shame I havent got a shot from top-down.

If they are going to make them they will need a large press of some sort to form the Inconel to shape over formers.

Cheers

Tom

Hello Mark,

Looks like a box for the electrical system solenoids and what looks like a voltage regulator with an AM ground power plug planted on the bottom.

Not sure if it’s the original fit or whether it has been Anglicised but the solenoids and base of what looks like the regulator are familiar from other US types I’ve seen.

Rgds

Tom

How is your tempest comong along at PPS Tom?

Not bad thanks, hope to have the fuselage together before Christmas so we can start applying the camo, interior and fwd fuselage is being refurbed at present.

Wings are ongoing, doesn’t help when they had been left in a dried-up riverbed in India which turned into a full-blown river on a regular basis, the lads were digging silt out for quite some time so you can imagine what that did to the internals, made worse by somebody hacking off parts of the trailing edges…..

It’d be nice to get Harvey Sweetman sat back in her when she’s all together at some point but he’s a long way away from either the UK or Polk City 🙁

Tom

Bit of an open one here, but does anybody have any updates around the following aircraft:

Tempest (from tempest 2 ltd awaiting centaraus)
Seafire (The one that had been restored, and had engine runs and then stripped down again)

Cheers

The Tempest is still awaiting a Centaurus I understand.
Seafire – stored at Greenham Common last I heard…

Rgds Tom

Now it seems the whole aim was never to show her off, but to use it as an investment with a ‘major’ profit in mind!!! Very sad!

As said by Moggy earlier, the ‘price’ wasn’t really applicable considering that it was there to draw people in, don’t get too sad about it chap! she’ll be flying again soon enough 😉

Tom

Hello Chippie51,

The only museum I know of near there with an aviation link is the Reggiane Re 2002 remains in the museum in Limoges, but it’s a little bit out of the way from the Auvergne:

http://www.france-for-visitors.com/limousin/limoges/the-city.html

Rgds Tom