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  • July 1, 2005 at 10:44 pm in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1413867
    Mark V
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    ….err, could I suggest, less than half the hourly rate to change the oil and filter on a VW.

    Mark

    £72.25 when I last had mine done last year!

    July 1, 2005 at 10:40 pm in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1413879
    Mark V
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    I think the problem is actually that at the moment nobody is.Moggy

    I can think of two flying Spitfires that have been sold in the last ten months along with a substantially complete project.

    July 1, 2005 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Congrats to Solent Sky #1414060
    Mark V
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    David, how can you dismiss the project as a non starter because of a lack of commercial viability? If all old aeroplanes were re-built on the basis of commercialism there would be very few in the air today. Love and dedication play a very big part.

    I accept that the Walrus does not have the popular appeal or glamour of the Spitfire and the market is limited but there was enough dedication available in 1989 to get her where she is today. I wonder if this will be as forthcoming now that she is to be just another static example, I suspect not.

    July 1, 2005 at 8:58 pm in reply to: Congrats to Solent Sky #1414236
    Mark V
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    Unless you are prepared to do it for the love of it and never mind the money it was a complete non starter.

    That was the entire basis of the project and the only reason it got as far as it did. It was NOT a “non starter” as you rather casually refer to it.

    July 1, 2005 at 2:27 pm in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1414659
    Mark V
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    Mark

    Current market price for a Spitfire depending on mark, engineering integrity, desirability and market place conditions is £1.1m +/- £200k. Engineering content value, in my view, is nearer £2m at sensible labour rates.

    Indeed – considerably more than £650,000!

    July 1, 2005 at 2:24 pm in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1414665
    Mark V
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    A flying Spitfire is worth what somebody will pay for it.

    I understand that HFL have considerably higher ‘screen prices’ on their current stock of flyables, but they don’t seem to be innundated with people waving the readies.

    Moggy

    OK – I will re-phrase it :rolleyes: People are paying considerably more than £650,000 for a flying Spitfire.

    July 1, 2005 at 10:01 am in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1415235
    Mark V
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    The whole flying spitfire can’t be worth much more than about 650 thousand pounds in the first place.

    Richard

    Richard, a flying Spitfire is worth considerably more than £650,000 today.

    July 1, 2005 at 12:46 am in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1415427
    Mark V
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    I beg to ask what aircraft the other 30% of the parts will be from ?

    Not another aircraft – new manufacture.

    June 30, 2005 at 8:11 am in reply to: Flying along…. #1417058
    Mark V
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    Wow!…. http://community.webshots.com/photo/301316267/382607170pVlnbq

    June 24, 2005 at 5:19 pm in reply to: B17 wreckage in a UK pond or lake #1424829
    Mark V
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    Why not just write ‘Aviation News’?

    June 17, 2005 at 5:12 pm in reply to: RAF ace's control tower up for sale #1340015
    Mark V
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    Yes – almost certainly the most dramatic ‘then and now’ contrast I have seen.

    June 10, 2005 at 10:21 pm in reply to: …and another picture quiz from Mark12 #1346816
    Mark V
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    Spitfire TE554, Be’er Sheva (Beersheva)!

    June 10, 2005 at 6:23 pm in reply to: Aviation Heroes #1347139
    Mark V
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    Do you mean someone who is working/flying today or do they just have to be alive today (with their achievements made in the past)?

    June 10, 2005 at 6:16 pm in reply to: B17 – the SAAB – confirmed for Legends #1347143
    Mark V
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    there are many surprises planned for Legends 05

    Sadly this is no longer one of them :rolleyes:

    June 10, 2005 at 6:05 pm in reply to: …and another picture quiz from Mark12 #1347150
    Mark V
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    Looks like a red Spitfire underwing cooler case …

    We established that by post 11.

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