Good news,glad to see this one avoiding the great Phantom cull of recent years. The serial should be XV408 by the way.
close enuff!!
its on BBC West
Here is the East Kirkby example (pictured at the 30th Anniversary of the BoB film -replica that was also at one time owned by Colin), also the combination fuselage (owned by Colin at one time). The nose was sectioned and had original Heinkel part numbers. Rear fuz was Casa.
The fuselage used for the interior filming I am more than convinced was the former Colin Waterworth Casa fuselage. From memory it consisted of a nose section and centre section . I cannot think of any reason why they would bring the fuselage over here apart from to use her for filming.
The East Kirkby nose section is made from steel tube and I believe was used for explosve charge sequences. It has recently been in New Zealand for some more film work.
Indeed Colins had the panels removeable for interior shooting!
The Wessex is a very rare bird which is due to be saved by BDAC!! It was longtime Boscombe aircraft, with a semi glass cockpit
I need someone to confirm this.. but, I thought the nose section spent some time at the South Yorkshire Aviation Museum when it was at Firbeck in the late 80’s. It was being restored. I have some pictures of it somewhere…
Colin Waterworth had the nose section and original rear fuz of one that was at Firbeck, he also had a nose only that is at East Kirby now.
Looking at the photo of that one, I would say it is identical to the BoB film crashed one, which always looked too real to me to be a replica anyway. They did build a false nose (which is at East Kirby) which I believe is used for the flash shots seen in the film.
Count me in. I’ve done some fabulous flying and aeros in a number of different Harvards.
I ususally find that the people who curse them are:
1) non-pilots and
2) the pilots that flew them many years ago to train for more powerful aircraft.I fear the first type only exist because they overhear what the second type have said and think that it is clever to copy them. Well, guys, I’m afraid you just look ignorant.
I am a non pilot (just a humble flight test engineer) and I don’t curse them…love them to bits indeed. Only spent about 5 hours in them, wish it was a 100x that!!! 😀
Excellent stuff Fluffy!!
I suggest that those that feel suitably worried, send an email to your elected representative or perhaps the PM?
http://www.parliament.uk/site_information/contact_us.cfm?return=index.cfm
I wrote loads of letters to Jack Straw (when Shadow Home sec) at the time of the Cullen Inquiry.
He seemed to favour my then (silly suggestion!!) of a deact register!!! I shall dig them out.
I believed that the selling of deacts would be banned?! Incidentally, I believe that there are no cases of reactivated deact guns….
Silly law, stupid government.
It seems that our rights, so expensively bought by our wonderful veterans, can be easily frittered away by kneejerk politicians.
Looks very pretty and a little P38’ish!!! Must be fascinating to compare with a standard Beech 18….I suppose the rudder effectiveness speed is lowered?
Whoops looks like he lost something. What happened?
All part of the show, he immediately drops the aileron and the show commentator pretends he is out of control…well cool! Uses the dihedral affect with rudder to great effect (oh dear the grammar police will probably come down on me now!!) 🙂
Took this at Oshkosh, under control, first time I was not too p’eed off about the k nob in the hat!!! 🙂
Didnt OFMC operate it at the time?
Indeed sad…a real boys own hero
We have a seat that is probably British, bakelite manufacture and contains the following numbers on a small data plate located at the front. Serial 9502-Part No A.S.2142- Issue 2. The seat is red in colour and at first look we thouht it was out of a Spitfire yet it does not match any Spitfire seat pictures we have. The metal hardware that is attached to the seat also has part numbers that start with the letters A.S It is thought by some locals to be a seat from a Fairey Firefly. Any seat experts that have an opinion?
Sounds like a Firefly to me! Similar seat fitted to Piston Provost. The Shearwater firefly has one like this