Take a look at:

http://www.littlegransdenshow.co.uk/aircraft.php

The “plastic” that is being applied to the north end of the building – Is this the the permanent wall or just weather protection?

Are the green doors from hangar 1 staying in place? It seems a bit silly if they are because this great new space that they claim is being created will technically be the same hangar space as the previous hangar one and a bit shut off for the restoration side…Cheers!

The blue plastic is a vapour check membrane that will be covered by the external cladding.

The doors will remain in the old position.

Thanks for that – will tune in.

Very nicely done – including the correctly placed fuselage roundel (further forward compared with a high back Spitfire) which results in the first letter of the squadron code being painted across the cockpit door.

Yep I remember it, it was a very good supplement. We have included TE184 as airworthy, rather than resting as it flew into Duxford not so long ago. 😉

It did indeed but ‘airworthy/resting’ may now be a more accurate description.

I believe the chap who wrote that supplement to Flypast, Spitfires on the Wing, a three years back, had problems defining an airworthy Spitfire.

I agree this is the most problematic part of the excercise. The chap that wrote the supplement was Peter Arnold I recall, you may have met him. He decided to sub-divide the term ‘airworthy’ in to different catergories and I think this was a good idea. However since then some of the aircraft in the airworthy/resting catergory (for example NH238) have not been active in over fourteen years and their inclusion as true airworthy examples may now have to be reviewed simply due to the passing of time requiring increasingly more effort and time to return an aircraft to flight.

On your points Mark V- it’s interesting to use your definition of a ‘total loss’ because very few historic aircraft are ‘lost’ as such these days.

Thats why I wrote it. Most of the total losses have been in museum fires. Flying accidents do not consistently result in such a 100% loss.