Sounds a little unlikely for a production engine Adrian !…maybe for some of the test engines ?
Most engines had a strict limit on how long they could be run at max power !

rgds baz

My thoughts exactly, baz, which is why I’ve never been sure I remembered it right, but I’m sure they cited it against the much shorter time a Merlin was tested on full emergency boost, which adds to my confusion!

Adrian

Yes it was and to the best of people’s knowledge the Snowdonia bits were scrapped so it should be just the forward fuselage.

The link in Airfixtwin’s post (repeated below for clarity!) states that “the part in the photo” – unclear which one – actually ended up in Norfolk in 2011.

http://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/carnedd-dafydd-%E2%80%93-douglas-boston-mk-iii-z2186-418-squadron-17-oct-1942-2/#comments

I certainly hope so as in 1994 the section with the undercarriage leg was still quite impressive. Anyone know any more?

I believe the local ATC salvaged the centre section wreckage circa 1974, but where it’s gotten to since…

Adrian

To be honest, I can’t remember!:o

I’ll make myself known next time and the current plan is – yes – the 30th.

Adrian

Adrian, yes, that’s me.
I must say I do look a bit severe in that picture.
Andy

No comment! We had a little chat at the Autumn show, but of course you didn’t know me from Adam.

I’ll have to bring a vintage camera (or three) and see what the light is like…

Adrian

Late on the round-out again, Hoskins?:eek:

I guess from the damage to the trailing edge that SX274 had a ground collision rather than an overturn?

Stupid question of the day, though – why is the Tiger sat with chocks behind the wheels?

Adrian

…..or will it be Andy ‘Babbacombe’ Saunders – ‘the man they couldn’t ban’!!!!!

And, in years to come, someone will make a best-selling folk-rock concept album about him – what better tribute?

Adrian

(incidentally, rather more seriously, it was the involvement of the man who probably knows more about Spitfires in Burma than anyone else, our very own Mark 12, that made me sit up and take notice and not think “Oh, more buried aircraft… yawn!”. In that light, the current situation seems pretty ironic!)

Just dropping in to add my support for the gentlemen concerned (I even washed it before I fished it out of the cricket bag, that’s how much I care).

I hope that Key are able to come to a rapid and reasonable response, and that we see all three back as fast as possible. Do please hang on, Andy, as your presence here is valuable, and I’d say the same for the other two if they said what you did.

Meanwhile, well done to the moderators for keeping their heads above the parapet in a veritable ****storm – it’s a messy job and I’m very glad you are doing it. Thank you for your efforts.

Adrian