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  • April 4, 2007 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Tom Blair's Hurricane at DUX #1254415
    Mark V
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    Looks really nice! 😀

    It’s worth waiting for 🙂

    April 2, 2007 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1255958
    Mark V
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    Try 100 landings!
    Pintlel bolts out and off for crack testing and alignment check – as with all things Spitfire not a cheap operation.

    Yes – you are right (but you can’t spell pintle) 😀

    April 2, 2007 at 9:01 am in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1256195
    Mark V
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    Good point Cees – there have been incidents of failures caused by ‘fatigue’, ‘stress’. etc. There is now a mandatory check which has to be undertaken on the pintle studs (the long bolts that secure the pintle to the wing spar) on all CAA registered after a certain number of landings (250 I think). However the point remains that the Spitfire airframe does not have an overall fatigue life in the way more modern types do.

    April 1, 2007 at 11:10 am in reply to: Aladdin's cave, what a find ! #1256900
    Mark V
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    Anyone want to come and take a look? Meet at Mountnessing windmill at 12.30 today.

    where they will be greeted by a large sign saying “APRIL FOOL”!!!

    April 1, 2007 at 11:07 am in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1256901
    Mark V
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    So if Spitfires dont have fatigue index, how is fatigue measured? Especially I was under the impression that part of the reason for an aircrafts retirement was down to fatigue? Bex

    It isnt.

    Bex you are thinking about later RAF aircraft. No Spitfires were retired through ‘fatigue’ as this was not a recognised problem in WWII and no fatigue measuring process was in place for this type.

    April 1, 2007 at 9:05 am in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1257061
    Mark V
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    Just out of interest, do Spits have a Fatigue Index as per Chippys/Bullodgs?

    No.

    March 27, 2007 at 8:14 pm in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1260461
    Mark V
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    113 hours in the past 20 years???? :confused:

    Hmm – something seems not quite right there. I would have expected more like 600 + hours in her current post restoration life, but then I am only guessing.

    March 27, 2007 at 8:10 pm in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1260465
    Mark V
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    Thats why I asked!
    Tony K

    Ah – you want to know how many hours she flew last year! 🙂
    Not many UK warbirds doing more than 50 so it will be interesting to find out.

    March 27, 2007 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1260572
    Mark V
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    Perhaps Carolyn could tell us the present number of hours.

    1195 as at the end of 2005 (see post 10).

    March 27, 2007 at 3:46 pm in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1260656
    Mark V
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    I must admit though with war time hours included I was expecting you guys to mention figures of 3000 + hours. Thanks again Bex

    No problem – I am afraid these areoplanes rarely lasted very long in WWII. Few surviving flyable Spitfires with combat history have more than a couple of hundred hours wartime flying on them.

    March 27, 2007 at 1:53 pm in reply to: Spitfire flying hours #1260848
    Mark V
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    1: Are you including War Time hours flown in your totals?

    If its recorded – yes.

    2: Does the Hours total include both engine & airframe or just one of each?

    We are talking about airframe hours – an airframe may have had any number of engines fitted in its life.

    March 21, 2007 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Aviation museums with good access by public transport #1266360
    Mark V
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    I visited North Weald a few weeks ago – there is a bus from Harlow which takes you to the museum, though as I visited on a day when the museum was closed, and I went direct to the Squadron Club for lunch I used a taxi
    (£24) from Harlow Railway Station. Afterwards the Squadron Club arranged a taxi for me which took me to Epping, London Underground, station for £10.

    So after paying £34 in taxi fees 😮 what did you actually do there (apart from have lunch)?

    March 21, 2007 at 11:20 pm in reply to: Aviation museums with good access by public transport #1266363
    Mark V
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    Is it possible to walk from Epping station to North Weald? Im thinking of popping down there some time and was thinking of walking as it is cheaper.

    Walk up through the town centre, turn right at the lights to the hospital and hop on the bus for the section through the forest. Takes about 25 minutes.

    March 19, 2007 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Aviation museums with good access by public transport #1268620
    Mark V
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    I was thinking about Cosford but it would take about 7 hours to get there by train from London

    Not sure where you get that idea from! Take the 9.10 from Euston, change at Birmingham New Street and you arrive at Cosford at 11.32. Total journey time: 2 hours 22 minutes.

    March 19, 2007 at 2:11 pm in reply to: RNHF Website update 12 Mar 07 – VR930 gets new paint and a "stablemate" #1268973
    Mark V
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    The RNHF Swordfish Mk.I W5856 wears a scheme representing another aeroplane from 1939, but carries it own serial.

    The Blue Diamonds-liveried Hunter T.7 G-BXKF, owned by Delta Jets also carries a similiar scheme; painted to represent XL571/XL605 but wears its former serial XL577.

    Nothing wrong with retaining the serial either – BBMF have done that for decades.

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