At least one owner has painted his R3350 Fury, an acknowledged composite involving ISS and German TT20 parts, in a deliberately basic, anonymous livery to avoid implying the Fury has a specific history…very cool it looks too, but what variant would one call it? Dunno! 😀
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Would that be the one near you with the folding wings?
Essentially, I’d thought it was a pressurised PR equipped Mk.XIV, but someone said it was based on the Mk.V with a Griffon fitted
You are right – they are thinking of the Mk 12 (I am not suggesting a Mk 12 is pressurised though).
Is the pilot of this aircraft going to get a mention?
Hope so, although in the caption on the profile the spelling of the word Captain is unfortunately incorrect.
Merlin XX
Think Hurricane II.
The workmanship on the Walrus looked good, chaps with the aircraft said it was off to ‘somewhere in the Hastings direction’ for work tawards airworthiness.
It looks ‘good’ because all the work done so far (years of it) was to airworthy standard :rolleyes:
Damyns Hall has been around for years but has received some investment recently. The callsign is born more out of nostalgia then geography, its not on the site of the historic aerodrome.
BL628
Thought I’d read recently that it had changed hands?
You did, it went to Provenance and is now for sale.
While on the subject of Spitfires and paint, has RW386 been repainted or is it still in the paint applied in 1992?
Substantially yes – I looked at the aircraft in the container just over two years ago and it was in superb condition (the new external paint anyway), but I understand the fuselage interior paint did not fair so well having been applied prior to being worked on by HFL. There was some partial re-painting of, I think, roundels recently, prior to last weekend’s ‘roll-out’. Just waiting for the overhauled prop now I believe.
There were some solid wood models of the Grace Spitfire available at one of the show stalls at Dx at the weekend. Not sure that these are ‘officially approved’ though.
I have a dozen or so of the Corgi models in a large removal box. Seeing similar ones go for £40 or more on ebay leaves me to believe I will not own them for much longer.
be grateful for enthusiastic individuals whose deep pockets
Well worth the reminder Roo!
….unless Twilight Tear has had the nose checkers painted on….??
TT has always had checkers on its nose, at least since it has been in its current scheme.
From an earlier post in a different thread:
TFC and OMFC p-51ds,flown by lee proudfoot and alister kay
hi was at the airshow to did anyone notice the seafire when it was in the flypast one of the undercart legs was half down. and what would cause this problem?
It was the port leg, just sticking out slightly, not an uncommon occurance as Bruce and Y11F have said, easily rectified by re-cycling the gear. ATC had informed the pilot as soon as it was noticed.
Wrong colour for Janies Chippy – the one in the film was in the later RAF training scheme.
two Mustangs displayed in the gloom with their nav lights on, very wierd.
They do that every year as people are arriving at the banquet (around 7.00pm usually). It is awesome.