Sorry to say so far my experiances have not been good.

1: swapped a Liberator seat with a very well known and large museam recieved in return some Spitfire items which as it turned out did not belong to them.
2: Purchased a WWI prop on the instructions of a museam in the US after months of chasing them for payment I was told to swivel.
3: Lent a seat to a local Devon museam when i went to collect it they initially refused to give it to me siting various bogus regulations, all ended well as i simply picked it up and walked out.
4: New museam in Wales suported by local County Council offered to purchase a Hurricane project I held it back even though I had a customer in the states ready to go as I wanted it to stay in UK. After Months of emails and silence from their side, they told me they didnt have the funds.

I am sure there are many well run museams, its a shame some let the others down, personaly as soon as I hear the word Museam I tread with extreme caution.

Andy I hate to correct you but you are not up to date with current Spitfire technology, we used gaffer tape these days you know. 😀

Tried calling last night to warn him about the crowds of fans that will inevitably be banging on his door. No answer he must have gone to ground, probably booked into the Priory :diablo::diablo::diablo:

You don’t need rudder once airborne.
And there is a little bit of the elevator left.

Remeber that B-17, for got the name, that had its entire rudder ripped off, as well as an entire horizontal removed by a ramming Bf-109?

It too made it back to base after a long, long flight.

So, possible?
Absolutely.
But I bet he was sweating bullets and cussing the rammer the rest of the day! :diablo:

Quite true but you do need it as soon as you land surely, I cant imagine the elevator thats left would have much effect, clearly its possible as he made it down, but it must have been one heck of feat and probably required a new pair of trousers 😮

Hi Graham,

That video is CGI. There is no way that an aerobatic aircraft can lose a wing and return to the ground in one piece (unless you have a ballistic recovery system…)

Good pic of the Hurricane though. Amazing he got it down.

seriously? is that CGI, a fake? if so its pretty convincing, I dont think they can CGI detail as per bit at the end where he opens the hood.

I remember seeing a clip of an aerobatic aircraft loose it wing or wings and the pilot got it down on its wheels you would not belive it unless you saw it. Of coarse you cant hang a Spit or Hurri on its prop. A quick search on utube here is the footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI5-LO2MAA&feature=fvsr

:diablo:Its Spitfireman he’s on here all the time. This is his favorite replica EN398.

And readers 😀