Has anyone heard anything?

Assording to a press release by the Dutch MOD, the Dutch Spitfire was involved in a landing mishap tonight. While/during landing, it ran of the runway shortly after 19.00 lt. Pilot is ok, damage to the airframe is unknown

Apparently it went threu its undercarrage

Does anyone have or know where to find a picture or drawing of a Jumo 211 J engine. Either cutaway or close ups or any photo to tell you the truth.

Also does anyone know where a plate bearing the following would have been placed.

Garat nr 19-5718 A-2
Fl E 571801 and BA 15 something after it
Werk nr 115714

more details later.

Thanks in advance.

Try writing to the Brussels air museum. They had a Jumo some years ago. Could not make a proper photo of it. Did see it once, they may have put it in one of there famous storage facileties

For those of you who may be interested we flew ML407 this afternoon almost 63 years to the hour she earned her stripes..

mick

Did ML407 fly during D-Day? As stated in Spitfire the New Zealand story. The engine failed to start at first attempt. At the end in his haste to to catch up with the other aircraft he collided with flying controller’s poorly placed telephone and chair. ML407 required a new propeller.

Houlton took of in the end with ML176!

Have flown with the following type’s

Catalina VP-BPS
Catalina G-PBYA
Saab Safir
Yak 52
Luscombe
Dragon Rapide
Twin Pin
DH Beaver

😀 Camouflage, also known as cryptic coloration, is the method which allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain indiscernible from the surrounding environment. 😀

unless it wants to hide inside a thinfoil factory

Dutch logik what can I say.

This weekend the Spit is at the Stampe en Vertongen fly-inn at Deurne belgium. But is also going to Gilze and Lelystad. Am going to Gilze it might fly with the other Dutch camo Spit

A new dimension in Dutch historic aviation. Where will it all end?

Hopefully on the runway.