Fascinating updates – keep it up Blue and Crew!
Over here in NZ, miles from an airport or museum, I really enjoy these weekly stories and photos.

Possibly a Tempest II in NZ if another source of funds (Owner) becomes available, or one of Kermit Weeks who has a couple of Napier Sabre engines – one of which I believe was a new crate engine. We can but live in hope any Hawker Tempest gets into the air!!

Ok Dave – I have a larger version of the same photo added here..

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I have it named as Nils Napier Sabre…

No anciiliary/auxiliary equipment mounted at all.

Thanks for posting the vids. Both old girls straining at the leash and letting the horsepower go – well pounds of thrust anyway!! Real pleasing to see the speed the Victor got up to on the wet track – really felt she could get up and fly so easily!! I hope the funds covered all the fuel guys – a big expensive exercise just to get that far!! Bodes well for the summer season and I hope you can get some good paying crowds next time!! 🙂

Well done gents! She is looking so spruce and tidy and great to see No. 2 running up – next step taxiing.

Just helped a rebuilt 1600 BDA style engine get going yesterday – they had problems with one of the two dual throat Webers (DCOE40) was not working, and had a repaired hinge pin post and redrill for pin – off centre so one float was rubbing. Developed a method for proving the rub and modifying float arrgt for float freedom and fuel flow – she then ran on all 4 cylinders instead of two!! An old 105E Anglia lives again. Fun when you get to hear the engine finally run!! And a happy ecstatic owner can drive it as well!!

Graeme

I have had my prayers answered already: DH-98 – FB-26 Mosquito KA114 and two MkIX Spitfires, a P51D Mustang, two Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks, a Chance Vaught F4U Corsair, Avro Anson Mk1, 8 or 9 Harvards, two de Havilland DH 115 T.55 Vampires, a de Havilland Venom, BAC Strikemaster, 3 Aero Vodochody L-39C Albatross jets, 8 or 9 Yaks and a huge variety of WWI DH aircraft and Triplanes and some other DH craft such as the DH 84 Dragon and I think a Domine as well, plus a DHC-2 Beaver then there were the NZRAF types there as well – a Boeing 757 – impressive flypast, and the old C130 Herc, a P-3K Orion flyover; and air displays of the UH-1H Iroguois, the KAMAN SH-2G Seasprite, an NH 90 – Iroquois replacement, and a AW A109LUH as a transition rotary wing craft.

This all at a country town aerodrome. A fabulous weekend with my wife too, and I am living on that for the rest of the year!! Wings over Wairarapa Airshow. Plenty of small craft action in NZ!

Graeme

A good supply of Meteors, Canberras and even a couple of Venoms on display here! 😉

WOW! Thanks! 🙂

Graeme

Venoms, along with Meteors and F-86 Sabres are the under-appreciated jets of the post-war period. Great classics all of them but no-one seems to be interested too much in saving many of them.
Anon.

And the Canberra as well, bigger beast, early jet, but served so valiantly in many roles till very late in the piece – even as a high altitude PR vehicle… some are still serving for NASA!!

Wiki – The Canberra was retired by its first operator, the Royal Air Force (RAF), in June 2006, 57 years after its first flight.

There does not seem to be many folks restoring any of them. Some are sitting in museums but perhaps they are ho-hum did a job, never flashy fighter action but… what about them? Are they too expensive to maintain, take up too much space?

Sorry – this is a bit Off-Topic…

I was so pleased and impressed seeing a Venom flying in NZ at the Wings Over Wairarapa, a whole reflection on the de Havilland breed based on the FB 26 Mosquito KA114 back in the air, with two Vampires, and many older DH aircraft there too – oh and a Beaver from DH Canada. Long live the Venom!!

Oh, and the same engine designer (Major Frank Halford) who designed the Sabre engine 4 years before – the first was the Vampire’s Goblin (or the H1), then the Venom’s Ghost jet engine (or H2). A remarkable man.