Exactly!!!!!

Mark and Dave

I don’t want to go into specific companies or sales but I was quoting apples with apples ie a complete flying P40 @ 20-30% of what you are quoting for a Spit and thats a fact – When a P40 is openly put on the market (recent sale) for US $1M it will sell for less and that less is around Aus $1m or 400.000 pounds sterling or 20% of the UK price of a Spit rebuild in Blighty.

I sugest you have a chat with Pioneer or Avspecs on the NZ price of a Spit – I didn’t ask but I suspect it’s a lot less than NZ $5m. There are/were 8 to 10 Spits being rebuilt in NZ and costs could be compared easily enough

Bruce

There are serious amounts of Mossie metal down here – I remember about 15 sets recovered from Narromine in store at the HARS facility near Sydney so I think the potential is quite good given the NZ moulds have happened and seem to produce a Fuse pretty dam quickly

Regards
Guys
john

TBYGUY

Ask Melvyn, he is the project director for the Stirling now he has completed the Rewind Clobbermiester and it has been taken on charge as the new NATO deterent.

Melve will soon be moving a convoy of containers down to the wee hanger to begin fettling the beast. Prior to the commencement however there will be a two week ceremony of acceptance at which time Melve will convene a closed meeting of the inner sanctum of the Clique of honour. Whereupon he and the chosen ones will consume vast quantities of coffee and stale cake and sandwiches and vote for the title of “Sacred slagger”.

After each vote Melve burns a specially treated collegue in the restraunt fireplace and the desciples of Melve watching from outside know if the new slagger has been elected Black for no white for yes. As usual Melve rigs it so he always wins – never have an election if you don’t know the answer.

Melve was supposed to be in Italy this week working as a consultant on a similar process but the Bloody Stirling turned up and he had to phone the advice in – they seem to be doing it OK but as Melve says – Bloody Italians …….what did they ever do for the world.

Anyway that wots in the box and wots appenin to it mates….. and Melve assures me it will be at leg ends ………one year

Kindest regards
John P

Hi Mark

No if it were my Mossie I would ask the chaps to make all new “Non wood bits” and leave the old bits on the old wooden bits and restore 3 or less static mossies and I think that is the point of my posts. I don’t have a problem at all with total new builds and the assumption of existing identities. My main point as I keep re iterating is that we can have the best of both worlds if we static restore the old bits and pass them on and construct new build aircraft to fly. The less old bits flying about the better I say and the greater trust I have in the overall integrity of an airframe.

At present we do have an issue with engines but even that will be solved in time and technology at least with mainstream types such as P&W, Allison and Merlin maybe even DB 601/605.

I think we are really at the same point here you are more focused on the provinance issues which can be circumvented if the passed on scrap is stripped of it’s identity and just restored as a representative of the type rather than linked to the source identity.

Anyway a good discussion here on both threads

Kindest regards
John P

Wow

I was there in Feb at Glyns and the progress since then on the wood is fantastic – well done – when we visited I never imagined that it would progress this fast – well done.

Regards
John P