In the air as the star of the show???????

I just can’t see them listed :p

I’ll be about tomorrow, can’t make Runnymede first however as:

a) Shame on me I don’t know where it is

b) I seem now to have a car full of furniture to drop off in Barnet on the way

All being well I’ll be at Hendon around 10.30:rolleyes:

I believe this Spit (PL344) is now owned by Tom Blair and based at Bartow which is not that far from Kissimee. It has recently returned to the air following an engine change so perhaps he’s just getting some use out of it.

At the moment I can’t see why I shouldn’t make the 8th

RE: Mustangs – Confession Time

Polished metal would have been nice, but a pain to maintain in the UK. Certainly looks a lot different now to the way it was when it arrived in the UK.

RE: Mustangs – Confession Time

Surely Alexis, Janie is now the best looking Mustang in the UK, althogh Moose did look good.

At the time G-HAEC was sold OFMC had some hefty bills to pay, the P40 and the Yak 3 both had final payments to be made on them, so when they were offered money for the Mustang it kind of made sense. Of course as soon as the Brietling money came along it was natural that the first aircraft they would buy was a Mustang hence buying Moose, although initially they were after ‘Double Trouble Two’ from Switzerland.

RE: Lancaster B.X KB976

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 02-02-03 AT 09:12 PM (GMT)]Following the Woodford hanger collapse Charles Church bought the fuselage of KB994 and Lincoln RF342. Following Church’s Spitfire accident the whole lot passed to Doug Arnold. Following Doug’s death a Lancaster was sold to Kermit Weeks which on paper at least was / is KB976. I would suspect that the aircraft is a composite of KB976 and KB994 with probably some Lincoln parts thrown in for good measure. What was left out of this little lot passed through Aces High (possibly still under the ownership of David Arnold) and to an group at Sandtoft. That said last time I was at North Weald David Arnold still had a Lancaster nose section in the hanger so the full story of what’s what is still not clear.
It was also reported that the extreme rear fuselage of a Lancaster was spotted in a garden in Lincolnshire so I would assume that this is part of the fall out of the disposal of these airframes from the Warbirds of Great Britain collection.

RE: Duxford projects current status

And made of plastic