A starter kit for your very own original Spitfire project is now for sale, £200,000.00

Light Aircraft, For Sale | Vickers Supermarine , MK IX | 200,000.00

Spitfire MK IX – Restoration Project

Serial Number: EN179

Registration Mark: G-TCHO

For sale: Identification along with an extensive list of parts both original and new made along with items recovered from the crash site.

History
EN179 was part of the 316 Polish Squadron she was shot down during 1943 whilst taking part in a ramrod operation over France.

For further information contact: Martin Phillips on 07980 720030

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A fascinating ‘snapshot’ of another era, when everything was in short supply.

On a forum like this, the obvious question is ‘what became of them? ‘ but wooden airframes, living outside, probably tells us all we need to know.

I wish my family had owned a couple of warbirds as well !

Ouch! That was a bit of a heavy landing. Looks as though it cart-wheeled, and inverted as well, to smash the fin and rudder.

A pretty big crash in fact, and so to both get out unhurt is a real blessing.

Bruce so you now decide Sky News is Gospel? Whatever way you look at it Andy Hill killed 11 people still he is OK and floating around in his Porsche I wonder how the beavered families are coping ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3414515/Shoreham-air-disaster-pilot-spotted-driving-Porsche.html

Or, to put it in less emotive terms ” Against incredible odds, he survived an ACCIDENT, and during his recovery period he sometimes drives his car”.

Perhaps he should get a push bike instead, and be compelled to replace the saddle with a big steel spike…and flat tyres as well, to show true contrition.

How many flying Spits down there now, I am wondering. Seven or even eight ?

All the ‘right thinking’ zealots who are so keen to put the lid on observations/debate/ advice ( lump it together and call it ‘speculation’ if you like) never seem to have much to say when the accident reports actually are released.

If these sad events are neither discussed when they have our full attention, nor many months later when the AAIB have pronounced their findings, however shall we draw out the facts and circumstances which may one day save us, and our passengers ?

I am highly suspicious of ‘group-think’ wherever I come across it.

Lone Star Flight Museum.

That was the one munched by a Spitfire. Pics here….

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/324972-spitfire-attacks-hurricane-texas.html

A terrible accident, awful.

The wreckage distribution has some distinctive features, and the AAIB will no doubt look very carefully to see if spinning was a component in this event.

”The General Aviaition Safety Council made a study of spinning accents and found the T67 so highly represented it was subject to a special study”

http://www.gremline.com/index_files/page0053.htm

That is NOT to say it spun in, time and investigation will tell, but one would be naive to disregard the troubled record of the Slingsby T.67.