I don’t mean to hijack the post,but whilst we’re on the subject of replica Spits,I thought I’d post this picture up.I went flying from a farm strip in Wiltshire in the summer and this was at the back of one of the hangars/barns.It doesn’t appear to have ever been completed,and there were no other bits lying around,so it looks like being just a spare fuselage.
I’d be interested to know what it was created for-a left over from the making of PoC perhaps??-who might have made it,etc.

Thanks Corsair,looks like she’s coming on a treat-a possibility for Legends ’04 maybe??

“I reckon he would’nt mind if I passed it along to you folks so you can see how it’s coming…..least I HOPE he does’nt mind….”

Might be wiser to check BEFORE posting! 😉

Thanks for sharing that Whalebone,sad to see so many being taken from us.
Another great RAF legend, Air Commodore Cyclops Brown passed away ealier this month,although his obituary only appeared in the last week.Follow the link for his online obituary which was published in the Telegraph on Wednesday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F11%2F17%2Fdb1701.xml

Just a minor point-is the Britannia part of BA’s collection or does it belong to RAFM?It currently wears a military scheme and has an RAF history,so presumably it’s owned by the museum and will go under cover?

Well it goes without saying that I hope to see her fly,but failing that it would be great to see her returned to taxiing status.To consider each of the above possibilities:

“1. Continue the dismantling process and move her by road to a museum who could house her – admittedly extremely limited options.”

What I’m wondering is whether there is a museum which could house her at all which doesn’t already have a Vulcan.The only place I can think of is the Science Museum (Wroughton). I’m also not sure that the costs and difficulties of dismantling and transport wouldn’t be greater than putting her back together!

“2. Start a fund raising exercise to reassemble her – hopefully employing volunteer manpower.”

This sounds like the most promising option to me,although whether it will be possible only time will tell.Hopefully it won’t have to be considered,but perhaps I’m being just a little too hopeful.:rolleyes:

I was at IWM Lambeth just a few weeks back and Hess’ fuselage was there tucked into a corner on the upstairs flight gallery alongside the Lanc and Hali noses etc. It’s in reasonably good shape considering it’s age, the paintwork is in good nick.It used to just be on open display, but I think people were either damaging it or perhaps cutting themselves on the jagged bits,so it now has a glass screen around most of it.The reason it’s tucked into a corner is that the right hand side was badly damaged at the time-the oxygen bottles on the 110 were positioned inside the right hand face of the rear fuselage,and it seems soemone on the RAF ‘wreckovery’ team decided to cut away the whole area to get at the bottles,hence whacking great hole where the black cross used to be.In displaying it on the corner,they’re displaying it’s good side (and the side that people are less likely to cut themselves on.)
One of the DB601’s is also displayed alongside,although for reasons best known to themselves,they’ve mounted it upside-down.