In that case you might be right, I assumed they were hydraulically adjustable but didn’t check that.

Just a guess but if they knew that the nosewheel was going to collapse, perhaps they shut down the engines on final to limit the damage to the engines.

46/49, I had the same problem with the A5M but I’m also kicking myself over the Dornier…

P1127_wingchange by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr

The sign on the fence says:

As the last of the P1127 prototype series, XP984 was the first to feature the wing design which was included on the production version, the Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel. For several years it has been fitted with an incorrect wing from an earlier P1127 but we have recently been able to acquire a correctly shaped wing from an early Hawker-Siddeley Harrier. The wing will be fitted as part of a complete restoration of the aircraft before it becomes part of the new Brooklands Aircraft Factory Project due to open in Summer 2017.

I hope this answers your question. I am not sure about the Swift but that might move into the Aircraft Factory project as well.

A-6 Intruders indeed. I remember that image, I think they were dumped in the ocean somewhere to form an artificial reef.

I thought I recognised that one! The B-25 uses the same type!

I hope they sent the bill for a new prop blade to the helicopter pilot! 😉

This thread triggered a question and I figured I might as well put it up for discussion. Is the value or ‘attractiveness’ (when for sale) of a Spitfire influenced in any way by the fact that it was involved in a fatal accident in the not too distant past? I remember that when PV202 was restored to fly that this was done after a number of years had passed since the accident at Goodwood and also the ‘PV202’ moniker was avoided during those first active years. I am well aware that many of the restored airframes have at one point in their history had some sort of accident, certainly those airframes that fell during the war and have now been rebuilt will most likely have been involved with a fatality. I was curious how this affects the market for airframes?

I noticed that with SM845 a similar period between accident and subsequent restoration to flight seems to have been observed, but there doesn’t seem to be a change in how the airframe is ‘adressed’ with regard to registration and serial.