Cockpit or whole aircraft that is the question?

As someone who has hauled his replica spitfire all over the country to various events and film locations, I have to say that its a royal pain in the a**. Every time we need an 40ft artic, we have to unbolt and remove the wings and believe me thay have to be in perfect alignment to come on or off, in fact they are harder to get off than back on. I live in a terrace house and when i first bought it, it spent months stored without its wings. Its nice to have the whole aircraft even if it is a replica but I would sooner have a cockpit if i wanted to display it on a regular basis, it certainly gets more exposure and costs a fraction to move. My Spit replica used to have a removable tail(now welded) just behind the cockpit and we used to be able to transport that on a 16ft car trailer with just a little bit stuck out. I know a few scrap dealers one of which used to break Spitfires post war and the entries in their books make grim reading. They once had an imacualte MKV in the yard and as a young chap the scrappy asked his dad if they could save this one? His Dad asked him “Son who is going to want a Spitfire with petrol at 5 shillings a gallon”, i think thats 25p in new money. The aircraft was duly cut up. Anybody that saves anything whether its a complete aircraft or cockpit is doing aviation a service.Its noones fault when they dissapear except maybe a government who can waste billions each year but dont give a damn about our aviation heratage.

part id

According to my records part number 337 was first introduced for MkIV Spit but of coarse it could have continued in later Mks unless the part was modified again. I have uploaded picture from a MK XIX if you tell me the number of the part you have in the drawing ill look up the part number for comparison.

MPH

Ok, something to wake you up.

What panel am I working on at the moment (next to the Halifax cockpit project)

Cheers

Cees

Cees emailed you about the asi i can see where its going.

Cheers Graham:)

Taxiing replica

Graham
I am really in agreement that if you are the owner you can do what you like with the airframe and if restored you paint it in the way that you wish. Spitfire RW393 stood outside Turnhouse airport for many years in “bad” colour schemes but it was a real spitfire. It has been repainted and does not even bear its original serial, alothough to me it looks very authentic. The glass fibre replica now on display is again on a “bad” colour scheme but at least its a Spitfire that the public can see and perhaps a very small number will think of the pilots who died in similar aircraft. Some may also become aviation enthusiasts!!

So you dont really need to decide on your colour scheme yet. Of course you will need to decide what Mk you are making and what its modification state it needs to be in. That will to a certain extent drive what you decide to paint it as. If you want to make it yellow with pink spots I and many others would be unhappy but thats our problem not yours. I think what ever you do you be as authentic as possible.
PS any photos of your taxing Spitfire (reproduction?)

Here is a link i havent updated it for a while, if you see the film Pearl harbour you have seen here she did the ground shots as RF M not a film i would endorse Enjoy
http://www.spitfirespares.com/SpitfireSpares.com/Pages/simulators.html

sorry

sorry here is this OK

Australian A/C Consortium A-20 Wamira II nose/cockpit EMU (Dave T)
Auster J1/N Autocrat G-AJPZ frame (Rlangham)
Auster AOP.9 XK421 frame (Dave T)
Avro Anson C.21 anon’ cockpit (Dave T)
Avro Anson GR1 EG426 – “Static Project” (Mark P)
Avro Lincoln B2 RF342 – “Static Project” (Mark P)
Avro Shackleton AEW.2 WL756 nose/cockpit (Camlobe)
Beechcraft D.18s G-BKRN (philipturland and Texantomcat)
BAC Lightning 53-671/ZF579 (mjr)
Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B XX889 (Buccsociety)
Boeing B-17 Cockpit section-reproduction (B-17man)
Boeing B-17 Radio room-reproduction (B-17man)
Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett Trainer A3-167 Flying Project -(Mark P)
Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett Trainer A3-85 Flying Project (Mark P)
Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett Trainer A3-156 Static Project (Mark P)
Commonwealth CA-27 Sabre, A94-983 (Pete.PS)
Commonwealth CA-28 Ceres prototype cockpit VH-CEX/SSV (Mark P)
Consolidated B-24 Cockpit section-reproduction (B-17man)
Consolidated PBY-5A “A24-387” N68756 Static Project (Mark P)
de Havilland Chipmunk ‘pax WP927 (Stuart Gowans)
de Havilland Chipmunk ‘pax anon’ (Dave T)
de Havilland Hornet F.MK.1 nose/cockpit – repro’ (dcollins103)
de Havilland Vampire FB.5 VZ193 pod (dcollins103)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XD599 (philipturland and Texantomcat)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XE985 pod (MarkG)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XH313 (Vampire)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XH328 pod ? (Bruce)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 WZ584 (Bruce)
de Haviland Sea Vixen FAW2 XN650 nose/cockpit (HMS Vulture)
Douglas C-47A Skytrain / Dakota 111 FL517 nose/cockpit (c-47 Skytrain)
English Electric Canberra PR.7 WH773 (BexWH773)
English Electric Canberra PR.9 XH175 nose/cockpit (RossMcNeill)
English Electric/BAC Lightning F.1 XM144 nose/cockpit (XM172)
English Eectric/BAC Lightning F.1A XM172 (XM172)
English Electric/BAC Lightning F.3 XP706 (Scott C)
Enstrom 280C Shark G-BXEE (iws)
GLOSTER METEOR NF.14 WS807 (Buccaneer Society/Jet Age Museum)
Handley Page Halifax B Mk III cockpit reproduction (HP57)
Hawker Harrier GR.3 ZD670 nose/cockpit (Dave T)
Hawker Harrier T.2/4 anon’ nose/cockpit (XM172)
Hawker Hurricane P3554 ‘Jessamy’ (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F1 WT648 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F2 WN890 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F5 WN957 nose/cockpit (Dave T)
Hawker Hunter F6 XG290 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter T7 XL591 (mjr)
Hawker Hunter FGA.78 QA12 nose/cockpit (MarkG)
Hawker Sea Hawk F1 WF145 nose/cockpit (HMS Vulture)
Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 WV838 nose/cockpit (wv838)
Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 XE339 fuselage only (wv838)
Hawker Typhoon Cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hunting Jet Provost T.3 XN549 nose/cockpit (avroxix)
Miles Messenger M.2a G-AKIN (texantomcat)
North American AT-6-D-1-NT Texan G-TOMC (Texantomcat and philipturland)
Piper PA22 Colt – airworthy. (Moggy)
Supermarine Spitfire IX (Stuart Gowans)
Supermarine Spitfire nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Supermarine Swift F7 XF113 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
English Electric Canberra T4 WT486 nose/cockpit (sniperUK/2241sq ATC)
Supermarine Spitfire MkVcTrop cockpit section(Qldspitty)
Supermarine Spitfire MkVcTrop Reproduction(Qldspitty)
SpitfireMk VIII taxiing replica(well almost) fitted with a meteor engine.
Huricane MKII (in bits)
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Builder of simulator on Jetstream-41 G-JMAC
Sticker-Together of Grumman Yankee G-SEXY

qualify that remark

Stuart,

Sorry, listing amended to delete my inserted word “repro”. I wasn’t aware the Spitfire was repro, original, or both. But in this age where a new Spitfire can be built from nothing, i guess that’ll just start a lively debate on provence, so probably best not go there on a subject i know nothing about. As Mr Adlam is indeed a naughty boy and has been caught by eBay, back on topic please folks, thus……….

Australian A/C Consortium A-20 Wamira II nose/cockpit EMU (Dave T)
Auster J1/N Autocrat G-AJPZ frame (Rlangham)
Auster AOP.9 XK421 frame (Dave T)
Avro Anson C.21 anon’ cockpit (Dave T)
Avro Anson GR1 EG426 – “Static Project” (Mark P)
Avro Lincoln B2 RF342 – “Static Project” (Mark P)
Avro Shackleton AEW.2 WL756 nose/cockpit (Camlobe)
Beechcraft D.18s G-BKRN (philipturland and Texantomcat)
BAC Lightning 53-671/ZF579 (mjr)
Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B XX889 (Buccsociety)
Boeing B-17 Cockpit section-reproduction (B-17man)
Boeing B-17 Radio room-reproduction (B-17man)
Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett Trainer A3-167 Flying Project -(Mark P)
Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett Trainer A3-85 Flying Project (Mark P)
Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett Trainer A3-156 Static Project (Mark P)
Commonwealth CA-27 Sabre, A94-983 (Pete.PS)
Commonwealth CA-28 Ceres prototype cockpit VH-CEX/SSV (Mark P)
Consolidated B-24 Cockpit section-reproduction (B-17man)
Consolidated PBY-5A “A24-387” N68756 Static Project (Mark P)
de Havilland Chipmunk ‘pax WP927 (Stuart Gowans)
de Havilland Chipmunk ‘pax anon’ (Dave T)
de Havilland Hornet F.MK.1 nose/cockpit – repro’ (dcollins103)
de Havilland Vampire FB.5 VZ193 pod (dcollins103)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XD599 (philipturland and Texantomcat)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XE985 pod (MarkG)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XH313 (Vampire)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 XH328 pod ? (Bruce)
de Havilland Vampire T.11 WZ584 (Bruce)
de Haviland Sea Vixen FAW2 XN650 nose/cockpit (HMS Vulture)
Douglas C-47A Skytrain / Dakota 111 FL517 nose/cockpit (c-47 Skytrain)
English Electric Canberra PR.7 WH773 (BexWH773)
English Electric Canberra PR.9 XH175 nose/cockpit (RossMcNeill)
English Electric/BAC Lightning F.1 XM144 nose/cockpit (XM172)
English Eectric/BAC Lightning F.1A XM172 (XM172)
English Electric/BAC Lightning F.3 XP706 (Scott C)
Enstrom 280C Shark G-BXEE (iws)
GLOSTER METEOR NF.14 WS807 (Buccaneer Society/Jet Age Museum)
Handley Page Halifax B Mk III cockpit reproduction (HP57)
Hawker Harrier GR.3 ZD670 nose/cockpit (Dave T)
Hawker Harrier T.2/4 anon’ nose/cockpit (XM172)
Hawker Hurricane P3554 ‘Jessamy’ (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F1 WT648 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F2 WN890 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F5 WN957 nose/cockpit (Dave T)
Hawker Hunter F6 XG290 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter T7 XL591 (mjr)
Hawker Hunter FGA.78 QA12 nose/cockpit (MarkG)
Hawker Sea Hawk F1 WF145 nose/cockpit (HMS Vulture)
Hawker Sea Hawk FGA.6 WV838 nose/cockpit (wv838)
Hawker Typhoon Cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hunting Jet Provost T.3 XN549 nose/cockpit (avroxix)
Miles Messenger M.2a G-AKIN (texantomcat)
North American AT-6-D-1-NT Texan G-TOMC (Texantomcat and philipturland)
Piper PA22 Colt – airworthy. (Moggy)
Supermarine Spitfire IX (Stuart Gowans)
Supermarine Spitfire nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Supermarine Swift F7 XF113 nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
English Electric Canberra T4 WT486 nose/cockpit (sniperUK/2241sq ATC)
Supermarine Spitfire MkVcTrop cockpit section(Qldspitty)
Supermarine Spitfire MkVcTrop Reproduction(Qldspitty)

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Qualify that remark about me a naughty boy! I suggest you read Ashleys post on new years resolutions and check your facts. Were you involved in ebay incident?? no!!, I will be reinstated by ebay after the mandatory 7 days.