Many of you will have seen this docu before,I post it in tribute to the Typhoon pilots/groundcrew…includes interviews with operational tiffie pilots 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexMo-2ZLos&feature=related

Fantastic, thanks for sharing. The narrator was a bit wooden for my liking, but I was gripped. What a great documentary.

Very intriguing. I for one have never heard of this outfit, nor the aircraft coming to NZ. I’ll put out some feelers and see what comes out of it 🙂

This piece about the Reid family’s MH120 ran in several national newspapers in NZ last week.

Let’s look on the bright side, it could have been one of these…

http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/galleries/images/16653/500×400/de-havilland-dh98-mosquito-farnborough-airshow.jpg

Regards;
Steve

😮 And I thought you couldn’t make a Mosquito ugly! Burn it! Burn it with fire! 😉

Even though I’m all the way in NZ, I think it’s wonderful to see any Mosquito returned to the English skies. My first Mosquito was the Airfix 1:72 NF.36, so I must admit I was very excited to find the TPM was, in fact, a NF.36!

Good luck guys!

MH120, being restored by the Reid Family of Nelson here in NZ, was registered as ZK-RRA some months back. There is still no news of a first flight, although here’s a teaser:

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Sad that a number of them never made it into preservation. Also, in this day and age, it always amazes me that not a single example has flown over 30 years since they were recovered.

Both fair points. I’m amazed that, even in the late 70s/early 80s, the whole lot weren’t retained for preservation. And it’s crazy to me that there are none flying, nor have any for many years, considering how many Sea Furies have done so over the decades. LA607 and MW763 could have (to my inexperienced eye/mind) done so by now, but at least MW404 and MW376 are going to internationally respected restoration shops for dedicated return to flight.

Who thought that a Mk.II would fly before the Mk.V? C’mon Kermit, show them who’s boss!

I thought it rang a bell: http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=68578 The latest update there was from our own DaveM2 in October 2010.

I remember reading the piece in Classic Wings way back when, and here’s a picture of the aircraft being worked on in 2007: http://www.airfighters.com/photo/82530/L/Greece-Air-Force/Supermarine-361-Spitfire-LF9C/MJ755/