I think the thing to do is to name and shame the individual who wrote the article, I think we should have a ‘goofers gallery’ where everyone in the forum puts in the journalists name in capital letters and comments on what a plonker he/she is so that in a google search this comes up big time.

Great work Dave, hope it all comes together, I have one suggestion, why not just try and get it to a taxiable condition rather than flying condition otherwise all your original finds will have to go to the scrapper and It will be a brand new aircraft.

I haven’t read all the posts so apologies if I’m repeating here but as regards Decals that problem is dead easy to resolve, all you have to do is get the customer to assemble the logo or roundel etc, Its a bit like the swastika which is illegal in certain countries the decal sheets have it split up into two arms and all you have to do is put it together. So the red dot could be separate which on some I’m sure I’ve seen. Also isn’t the roundel very specific as regards proportion and size? one could argue that its only representive?

Graham

I really don’t think that taxpayers money should be spent on religious establishments. This isn’t to say that the men and women who took part in the Battle shouldn’t be commemorated, they should be and they are, elsewhere.

Those who have a bee in their bonnet about this chapel should form a society dedicated to its preservation and seek private funds.

Regards

Id like to see you say that to the face of a former Biggin Hill veteran.

Er it has….

I think actually when you scratch the surface there’s not a lot of Typhoon there as even the cockpit tubular structure is a Tempest conversion, Somewhat reminds me of a Spitfire Mk 12 that was a ‘survivor’
It would undoubtedly be better to merge the parts with another project and maybe do some proper research on those ‘surviving wings in France’.

I’ve always been puzzled by the fact that the rockets weren’t very accurate, whenever I see that piece of film showing one firing its rockets in France [ they always use the same bit of film] they all fall dead spot on to the railway tracks from what looks like quite a distance away and to my mind disproves that.

Graham

Thanks Michael,
Yes that was awesome, and a relatively quick rebuild too.

Graham