Nice Pics! Looks like the Typhoon was just idling along…doing what, about 200knots? Often hard for the fast movers to hang with the heritage airframes and fly in close formation.

Here is a bit of evidence for chasing it down

Clouds Over Europe – (Great Britain; London Films 1939, 78m or 82m) D: Tim Whelan. George Curzon = Jenkins, Valerie Hobson = Kay Hammond, Laurence Olivier = Tony McVane, Ralph Richardson = Maj Charles Hammond. Screenplay: Jack Whittington, Brock Williams. Tongue-in-cheek mystery picture; minor flying. British title: Q-Planes.

AIRCRAFT: DH.82A Tiger Moth, DH.89A Dragon Rapide.

From this site
http://aerofiles.com/film-c.html
Great resource for quick movie/AC reference

My hat is off to anyone who rebuilds a warbird with their own blood sweat and tears (and just a bit of cash)! To make any old wreck a safe flier would mean replacing MOST of a heavily damaged airframe. If it were rebuilt just to sit in a museum, that would be a different matter all together.

I too, am curious to know just how much of the existing bits were used, but not to the extent that it might irritate the owner! The folks rebuilding the FW190 over at White1Foundation do have a nice diagram showing what is old and what is new, but then again, they had a bit more to start with!

If a mostly complete airframe is found, is it even ethical to replace 95% of it to make it flyable? There is the question!!

Congrats to all around! Well done!

When do we get to see pictures? Blue flames at night are really HOT!!:D

Welcome to the forum

I’m on the wrong side of the pond for this sort of thing, but here is a link that may help, I’m sure there are some others about that will be of more help in your quest

http://www.supermarine-spitfire.co.uk/drawings.html

GOOGLE is our friend!

Funny, just last night I was chatting with a fellow cast constable (were working up Pirates of Penzanze) and he mentioned flying. I asked what and he said he was in F-4’s in Nam and then later a stint at Top-Gun. One of the most exciting things he did was put on a space suit and zoom climbed to right at 90 thousand feet.

Have to chat some more…..back stage whispers while waiting out turn on stage. Might have to have him over for a pint!

Indeed, it is important to remember the “real” people, the courage and the sacrifice. My mother worked with a gentleman who had been in a Luft Stalag and when the TV series “Hogan’s Heros” came out he was mortified and quite angry at the entertainment business making light of such things!

I would think a good place to start would be to chase down folks who have already rebuilt 109’s as they are likely to have built theirs from several crashed/damaged airframes and may have spares.

…or learn to speak Russian and practice haggling!:D