I’m guessing it happened during wartime as i cannot find any Barracuda related crash in that area after 1946.

Rob

For me this forum is numero uno for keeping up to date with ‘grass roots’ projects and the bits and pieces that turn up from time to time. And as much as i admire and appreciate those with the where-with-all to restore and maintain flyers i think the mainstream aviation magazines do more than enough to feature those more on their glossy pages.

But what would i do if the forum folded.?… well i’ll worry about that when it happens ;).

Rob

They are beginning to look really good Santiago. Its also nice to see a lesser known type being modelled, especially the two S (Strike) Mk1 prototypes.

Rob

Hi Rob,

This is an enlarged extract from a larger photo that Mark12 kindly passed to me this week (as it also contains a Hornet).

This is the same “racing prototype” a/c shown from above.

Thanks for that David. Never seen one with the racing number on show on top of the port wing before.

And totally agree about what an amazing spectacle and sound those races would of been.
To quote from the Sturgeon book i mentioned, “the event was won by Peter Lawrence in the Blackburn Firebrand. The Sturgeon recorded the average speed of 295 mph and at the end of the first lap it was in second place, smoking and noisy but doing well, but it was eventually overhauled by the Spitfire and (possibly) by the de havilland Hornet”. 😎

Rob

Yep i understand that DB, but what i’m saying is its very unlikely the starting price will go up either.
At the end of the day if it is a company then presumably it will be needing to have a turnaround of stock, quite correctly as you say depending on purchase price, but also presumably would be open to negotiation on its prices.

I also understand what you’re saying re operating one, but although the Phantom is a complex beast just look at what has been achieved at Bruntingthorpe with the Buccaneers, with one in particular springing to mind as an example of just how much those guys can do to bring something back from the dead so to speak.

The level of expertise there in operating so many different vintage jets is surely unique in the UK now.

Rob