OK, it’s definitely no plane but maybe Admiral Byrd’s Snow Cruiser might still be around (worst case – on the bottom of the Ross Sea … )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_snow_cruiser

Probably not as much as 80mph. You have to remember that the Hurricanes that initally arrived on the island were very much second hand and had the volkes filter under the nose. The hot dusty conditions would also have had a detrimental effect on their Merlin engines as well.

I remember a passage from “Onward to Malta” (or so) by Tom Neil. He wrote that sometime in 1941 the squadron was earmarked to move to Malta and exchanged its MkII-Hurricanes for “brand new Hurricanes. Brand new Mk Is!”
As you said, add chunky Vokes-Filters and Malta´s climatic conditions and see what you end up with …

I thought the Tower bridge Hunter was XE624/G ??

There was an article in – you guessed it – Fly Past around 1982, written by Alan Pollock himself. He stated, his regular mount was not available so he flew XF442 that day.

About 4 years ago, German vintage aviation magazine “Flugzeug Classic” featured two small articles about a group attempting to recover several WWII planes from an entombed cave-hanger on a pacific island. The first article was issued in January, when the group was looking for sponsors, the second in March or April when it was declared sponsores were found and the the recovery expedition would soon be on its way …

However, the rest is silence. :diablo:

The official website never got updated and there was no reply on any email. So just for the records:

http://www.skw-58.de/Zeroengl.html

Research what happened to the Avro Arrow replica’s.

Why can’t you just tell us what happend, I’m curious … :confused:

ZOMBIE ALERT!

Right now I’m (still) working on a model kit of “MI-T” …
Question: Judging by the picture, only the upper sides were RAF-camouflaged but the undersides kept their Luftwaffe-blue-colour, didn’t they?

What does UXB mean?