What is the basis of all these ‘No flying’ comments? The event is a) at North Weald, a vibrant active airfield housing a wonderful variety of flying historic aircraft and b) involves other historic aircraft based elsewhere that by dint of that fact will need to fly in and fly out!!

Only yesterday there was a P-40 taxiing around and a Hurricane flying and that was a freezing January day!! :rolleyes:

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Oui! And an interesting list of participants too.

I think he’s referring to Tom Blair’s recently sold example (rumoured to to be staying in Europe) and Christophe Jaquard’s example possibly appearing together. I would love to see it.

The ex Tom Blair aircraft is most definatley staying in Europe and of course the Fighter Factory machine at Bremgarten is now in the finally stages of completion. However I don’t think you could describe any of these aircraft as being ‘on the British airshow circuit’, or likely to be. Of course that does not rule out the odd appearance such as at Duxford last July.

Wow 😮 sounds like an amazing gentleman! Looking forward to this event.

The Allison engine is a somewhat cheaper alternative to the Merlin. It also has fewer parts and is slightly easier to maintain (but don’t quote me on that).

It is indeed a little cheaper and less time consuming to overhaul than the Merlin (around 70%, I was told a few days ago by somebody who deals with both engines), cheaper to aquire and has fewer moving parts (not to mention rollers on the cam followers).

Here you go…. this one is in the RAF Museum at Hendon where are probably three examples, perhaps more.

J

This could be some year!!!!

It should be with such a significant anniversary to commemorate! Getting six Hurricanes will be a challenge for any show – but I would love to see it 🙂