You mean “Phantom FGR.2, faithful RAF steed of the 1980s”, don’t you?
And everyone knows we’re buying surplus MiG-21s from Turkey as the new JCA – it’s a glimpse of the future.
Haha 😀 By the way, wasn’t that Phantom owned by the Fighter Collection, originally planning to make it airworthy? Or have they given it to the IWM now?
The Canuck isn’t British either – at least the Phantoms in RAF markings though. Then again, for all we know, maybe they are just being stored there at the minute? Apparently the Blenheim IV/Bolingbroke has been dropped from the plans as well, shame
J. A. P. engine, before anybody wonders what on earth the RAF were doing using Japanese equipment. Short for J. A. Prestwich, and built engines for almost anything that moved…
I’ll get my anorak…
Adrian
Phew, got images of big radial engines strapped to the top of accumulators then! Do you mean the one like on the right of the picture on this page?
http://home.clara.net/djparkins/fltpath/fpmaster.htm
Click on ‘1/72 WWII’ then scroll down to ‘Trolley Accumulator Set’
Best bet might to be to go over to Canada, someone on the forum (Peter I think it was) flew in the Lancaster there and looked like a great experience.
Not the best of photos, but it’s took off a digital camera of a laptop screen – me at Sibson aerodrome (i’m the one in red on the left) before doing my skydive, 11th February 2006

Probably a stupid question, but does the Cosford Spit I have a flat canopy like early Mk I’s? On photos i’ve seen of it it seems to be flatter than the distinctive bubble canopy.
Cheers, was just looking at the G-INFO site and saw that an application for C of A has been received, and ‘change of C and A details in progress’, does anyone know what this means? The page is here http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?categoryid=60&pagetype=65&applicationid=1&mode=detail&aircrafttype=hurricane&dataindex=9
Also, for the HAC Hurricane Mk XII it says ‘Change of C and A details in progress’, anyone know what this means as well? Hopefully won’t be leaving the UK like the TFC’s and possibly Breightons!
If it’s any use, theres one at the Royal Artillery Museum ‘Firepower’ in Woolwich, London, could try contacting them and see if it’s from there
As far as I know, the one at Hendon (they might have more, not sure), in the Battle of Britain Hall is a WW2 version. I get what you mean about becoming interested in things unusual – at aircraft museums i’m often more interested in the ground vehicles like David Brown bomb tractors than the actual aircraft!
Cheers, just bought ‘Fighter’ and ‘The Most Dangerous Enemy : A History of the Battle of Britain’, i’ve also found quite a lot on the internet as well. As well as covering how useful the technology was, i’m also covering what would have happened if the technology was not there (for example, patrols and observer corps if radar wasn’t around), how this technology compared with the Luftwaffe and their resources (Spitfire vs. Me 109), and also other important factors that influenced the battle such as tactics, especially that of the Germans switch from bombing airfields to cities, and things such as the fact a downed pilot of the RAF could be returned to the battle, whereas a Luftwaffe pilot was now a POW and out of the battle etc. Many cheers for all your help, helped me open up my options and showed me other factors I hadn’t thought of.
Done before – unfortunately it won’t let me vote again, well, until I get to college tomorrow that is. Hopefully the coverage of the Spit on BBC News will encourage more people to vote for it
Nah, it’s the public hanging of the BBC presenters!
Are there many left in the UK? Seem to remember quite a few years back seeing one in hangar 2 at Duxford, either that or there was a biplane and a Chippie too close together and my mind got confused.
I think we would all like to see 100 Spitfires in the world, does anyone know roughly how many there are including the remains that are preserved?
Not sure how many exactly, but take a look here for em all (or most of them if not that) http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitregistry/spitregistry.html
Very good display I thought, the Irish Spit looked a beauty!
Why oh why cannot the media get even the most simple facts right 🙁
‘and Mr Henshaw will be joining the formation in this 2 seater version, the only one flying in this country’
I am sure Caroline Grace would have something to say about that!.
Was thinking that too, and the guy with one at East Kirby!