No, never flown with him, Andrew Castleden started my tailwheel conversion in his Citabria and I finished it in the Stearman with Tony Richards

You must surely be eyeing up the possibility of gratuating to the Mustang, as soon there will be two of them on your little airfield;) 😀 😀

Anyways, congratulations on the Stearman, I didn´t know you were flying the beast already.

Been flying the Stearman all summer, logged 25 hours in it now, what a fantastic aeroplane.
As for the Mustang… its a nice idea, it will certainly give me 2 to attack with spanners…

Are there many plates in Pooleys taken from 6000 feet then?

Well the pictures are pretty small so maybe…

On the subject of U.S rebuilds, can anyone shed any light on who may have done this rebuild?
It is a V-1650-7 which I have in from a customer in the UK. Odd thing is that it has not been run, but has had a professional rebuild done and sadly there is no paperwork with it.
He purchased it from Denis Kay about 10 years ago.
The colour scheme tells me it must have come from across the pond.

Pete

Interesting paint scheme on that engine, perhaps the bottom end was rebuilt by one organisation and then finished off by another team maybe? I remember Nixon did a red engine for Eddie Coventry for TD248, I prefer black Merlins myself….

Bograt,

Hence one of the main reason the UK and Europe will never see any Yanks bring there birds over because of this rather stupid regulation.

I’m sorry to say but I don’t think you will see Liberty Belle or any other US based Bomber come across the Pond till the CAA and the EU come up with some sort of Regulation that exempts them from allowing paying passengers.

What about money raised in other ways such as sponsorship or airshow appearance fees?

What a good idea, its been done before with a Mustang so thats ok, not sure the Spitfire’s weedy little undercarriage could take it though…. :rolleyes:

That’s not Jersey Aviation is it? I thought they went out of business some years ago, around 1996/7.

They stopped overhauling Merlins then.

Are there any archeology forums? I want to suggest putting houses on some site or other they have been faffing around with in Colchester.