Ardvarscar – ashtonvillageuk is going to raise him from the dead to fly Concorde, which will be fitted with 8 x .303 machine guns for use at Duxford airshows.

Well, that should put paid to the trailing edge & flaps then!! 😉

Yee Haar! 😀
Cheers All
WB

To brycheiniog & Maarvin, Good shots of ‘our’ Spitfire PR Mk19, could I copy them for my records please??
We waited all morning at Lynham to launch for Yeovilton,

Got to Filton Hangar at 08.00 picked up gear for Daily Inspection, drove to Lynham, dispatched Mk19 at 14.20 drove back to Filton, recovered Mk19 carried out post flight check on aircraft, got home about 17.30, a good day! It sounds like it was worth it!
Cheers………………

Did anyone see the documentery ‘Mitchell’s do fly in IMC’ talk about marginal!!

On the re-build it WILL have a retracting tail wheel!

There is a provision on most Merlins for turning the engine over with a type of cranking handle but that is for checking the timing not for starting it! maybe earlier engines had hand cranking systems, I know some later types had a Coffman (spelling??) cartridge starter, which I understand was fitted to the RR Spitfire Mk XIV G-ALGT for some time up untill the 70’s or 80’s.
Cheers………….

WarbirdUK

They were fitted that way for some reason long before I got there. PM is the last so no more hammering or funny insertion tools for us,and no I wasn’t at Fairford.

Great, glad to hear it 😀 😀
Cheers……………

The Avenger was definately at Legends in 1994, but not 1998 and it has never been to a RIAT show before, nor I don’t think has any Skyraider?

Last time I saw the French Avenger was when I was at Duxford with Dan Griffith, Dan was flying Tony HT’s Avenger in formation with a Dutch owned PBY Cat & the French Avenger, as I remember it, the PBY nearly stuck Dan into the ground as he lowered the tip floats there by reducing airspeed & loosing height in a turn, Dan was at the bottom of the stack with only one place to go so firewalled the throttle & got out of there a bit quick! (the PBY cat did not fly formation again that weekend!)
I thought it was later than 94 though. :confused:
Cheers………………

[Aircraft parked too close together, well that’s a dumb statement even by your standards. But there we could have a 3 mile long flightline just for Alberts sake.

Okay, so we get charged an extra £4.00 to shoot aircraft 3/4 front and some with wings folded, some shot with tele-lens because they are too far back. The very least they could do would be to park them at a 45 degree angle so you could see all the markings. Not such a dumb statement when you are charging more and more money after you’ve paid your admission.

Albert, stop & think a little, you don’t 45 degree angle a big prop aircraft, the prop wash can do a lot of damage to the flying controls on AC parked close by. &, by the way, If you have ever tried to taxy a warbird you can’t see jack s**t out the front so you follow marshallers or ground crew for parking. If you don’t want to pay, don’t no one is holding you down to get your cash. The choice is yours!
good night I’m off to bed!