I see the Shack turret is under offer ! so how much would a bid be worth ? knowing i sold one for 750 a few years back this one up for 2.5k?
My bet is about 1200 to 1800 now,
Anyone want to play?
Hunter 18k

£250-350 for the turret, Hunter £5k if in reasonable nick on a good day.

I’m kind of with David and Pete on this regarding hugely inflated prices on EBay.
Check out how some of the utterly pointless Nimrod items are titled and priced!

Have to completely agree with the ‘living history’ comment earlier, and the posts here, I’ve never attended a talk by him but have always been in awe mainly of his galant naval service and British types testing careers.

He is a remarkable man and a true link to a bygone age of flight.

I think we’re barking up the Spitfire tree too much here, this airfield is up for sale at a cheap price for property in Cornwall, especially one in such a nice location and overlooking the sea.
I’m more worried about potential property development, energy farms, and holiday interests of the site – which I would assume is brown field having an airfield on it.

PP in all the time I worked at St Mawgan I never remember any problems with cross wind operations there.
I don’t think the two airfields operations can even be compared.

There will be a request going in for a VC-10 to fly through.:)

I believe it is, by the RAFM.

G-ATTS was powered by the Rover TP90 (turbo Prop 90 hp – actually produced 100 bhp) Wolston, a gas turbine developed from the good old 1S60 auxilary motor, and the motor car gas turbine engines.
Originally it was WP895, but suffered a landing accident while with the Southampton UAS, It was modified by Hants and Sussex Aviation in early 1966 with the turbine engine.

Seems a shame that the engine and the idea of a parrafin burning Chipmunk didn’t go further.

I don’t think that we’ve ever had it so good for modelling the Spitfire, I had a quick look at what is available recently and I was amazed, especially in 1:48th. Some of the more recent Airfix releases, especially of the Seafire and later marks has helped, and sit nicely with the established Tamiya etc kits.
As someone else has mentioned, the Trumpeter Spiteful and Seafang round the lineage of well.

Apart from the variants listed above, don’t forget the obligatory ‘what ifs’!

I’m obviously not one of the ‘most’!

There are plenty enough Spitfires flying, there is a need for museums to be able to display these aircraft statically so that they can be viewed closely by the public and preserved as they are as artefacts relevant to a collection or its area.
Both the museums you mention have a strong case for displaying the Spitfire due to their strong local connection with the type.

Personally I prefer to see the satus quo maintained, some Spits flying, while others sit in museums.