The Comet will at this time be similar to the US machine, the US Comet has washout induced to eliminate the tip stalling tendency (but from what I here it hasnt really changed things that much) but I dont think it has a different airfoil section to the original.
We will try and keep the cockpit as original as we can (with very little to go on its kind of difficult) with no modern instrumentation if at all possible.
The undercarriage will be based on a modern retract with modern brakes to improve ground handling.
All of the above mods along with anything else done will be to make the aircraft something which is usable, from the outside represents a significant piece of aviation history which can be showed on a regular basis at airshows etc etc, but will be a much more useable aircraft so as not to sit in the back of a hanger for most of its life.

At present it will be a fairly long term project, but I am hoping to move things along a bit, as you can imagine it is a bit of a money pit but I think quite worth it in the long term.

The aircraft in question is a DH88 Comet replica as suggested, and the pic that Dave is refering to on the RNZAF forum show it with a Dragon Rapide behind.
I will attempt to take some shots and post them tomorrow for everyone to look at, would have done it sooner but have been a little busy having fun in England (playing with aircraft of course!!) so will sort some out ASAP….

Have you got the flight back to Oz planned, should make for an interesting trip.

I would imagine it is going to be very expensive….new wing would be in order I think.

Dont think I would be too happy flying it with a charred front and rear spar (glue failures etc etc) but it is hard to tell the damage from the pics, but still most probably a new wing.

Its a bit more than a fabric recovering methinks.

Still living at Wanaka.

Along with the nice new Yak.

There is quite a Russian contigient at Wanaka now, including the remaining Polikarpov’s.

Oh I do like Russian Fighters……… 😀