Excellent photo’s Foto4, I’ve enjoyed the whole bunch very much. Thanks for sharing them! Do you happen to know what the current status of the Yak-3 is? Last I heard she’d run off the end of the runway and been a tad damaged. It looks as though she’s back in airworthy trim judging by your pics though.

Adrian, so far as I can tell the two Hurri’s are BBMF’s Mk. II LF363, and HAC’s Mk.XII Z5140.

Just a few ideas…

1) You could tell the story of a local aviation museum, interviewing founding members and present staff etc, and taking a tour of the museum. As an incentive, it might be something that the museum would like a copy of to show to the public or school classes etc on a visit, so would be worthwhile in the long term.

2)You could try contacting a historic aircraft operator and see if they fancy you tagging along for a day, filming a flight, giving some background history etc. Wouldn’t have to be a Spitfire or anything, I’m sure many of us would be happy to see something lighter like an Auster or a DH Moth. You met get some flying in at the same time!

3) You could try doing something about a specific area of our hobby, such as cockpit or engine collecting/running. I’m sure there are folk on the forum who’d be happy to show off thier bits and peices (wink wink).

First of all, a great piece of work here, and on your other thread. I’m fairly artistic but can never get aircraft right, very frustrating!

Just the one thing I would mention about the picture above is the flap position. As I remember it, the flaps on a P51 always droop when the aircraft is parked as the hydraulic pressure is lost when the engine is not running. So they should really be down in the picture above. Sorry to criticise, it is just a small point and I thought you might appreciate the information. 🙂

All the best with your work, please do keep at it and keep on posting here.

There was a French-owned example that fits this description advertised on the Courtesy Aircraft Sales site a while ago. Perhaps it’s being prepped for a new owner stateside? A French owned Corsair went through the same process at Dx a few months ago.

Hey. I was out in the garden today (only a mile or so from Biggin Hill airport) when I heard something ‘big’ taking off. Not the usual private jet but a piston engine. I think you know what i’m going to say next, yes, it was a Merlin. You can tell those things straight away (sigh!). Anyway, as it gained height the pitch increased. A sure sign it is heading my way. And sure enough, over the trees, there she was. Don’t know what mark Spit it was but she was beautiful.

I didn’t go to the BH airshow this year (no Vulcan) and my complimentary tickets to RIAT were washed out so it was nice to have my own little air show in my back garden.

Even if it was oinly a fly past.

IIRC, Mk.IX TA805 “The Kent Spitfire” is based at Biggin these days, so it would most likely have been her.

http://www.kentspitfire.co.uk/index.html

I don’t see the characteristic turbo units fitted…It appears to have straight exhaust just like the Red Bull aircraft.

Time to give my optician a call… Thanks for the correction VS, that’ll teach me for posting past my bedtime!

We didn’t forget Ant, read post#2!

Whoops! 🙂