Phill;
Just to comment on a couple of things.
Oscar only owns the Avenger not the Sea Fury – thats based in the same hanger at Archerfield but owned by FlyingFighters museum.
“Must have cost you a bomb Oscar, to have both the Avenger/ Seafury at Avalon , or do they pay upp!.”
“When sitting under Connie one Show
A dude told me how much a hour, but I can not really remember what he said now, I think he said about $10,000.Oz.”
Yes it must be around that to keep her going – a lot anyway and with petrol going up the way it has it won’t be getting any cheaper …..
“Man that must be fun
Flying from the State’s, Do ya tingle a little and think of Smithy when you are doing it sometime’s Oscar, maybe touching down at old bane……….”
Oscar will no doubt answer that one !!!
“Good Luck, on a grand adventure mate
Some show’s at Old Essendon Drome Setter(John) would be real NICE!.”
Yes it would but restricted space and the need to keep the GA happening might cause a problem but it is worth looking into – same issues with Avalon these days?
“But I don’t think the neighbour hood would be too happy
And I think it’s damn shame we don’t have MORE Spit’s .
Something just has to be done about that! “
Well Oscar does have a Spit in restoration – so he is doing something about that!!!!
Spits aren’t as popular here as in the UK where it has turned into a little gold mine and coompared to other WW11 aircraft they are a little over hyped – much better to have the diversity we have here in my opinion – you can have 2 to 4 other WW11 fighters for the UK price of a Spit so I would opt for a P40 and a P39 and a Yak 3/9 and some change plus a nice car any day .
Regards
John P
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