Stoneleigh

[grumpy2]

I was close then?

[bunny]

clever buggers you lot
vince

[grumpy2]

In a previous life I used to make radio controlled planes, don't know that much about the real ones but I can tell you chapter and verse about how model ones fly - the hurricane was much easier to fly than the spitfire and landing a spitfire was a nightmare (no idea about the real thing though)

Gary

[jleyton]

is the Free Czek clipped wing Spit that usually lives at Old Warden (Shuttleworth)

Shuttleworth - that brings back memories

We took over the place for several days for a work function. Because of that, the guys there took us around everywhere, including areas not normally opened to the public. Well, in the workshop was a Spitfire with no prop - turned out to be (the only ?) two seater trainer left in the world, flown by a lady who learnt to fly it after her husband, who owned it, died.

Anyway, she'd been displaying at Shuttleworth but when she was taxiing to leave she hit a soft patch on the grass runway and the plane tipped over on it's nose, braking the prop.

Of course, that's not the sort of thing that Halfords keep in stock but guess how many companies make them, where they are and how much they charge ?




Apparently, there was only one company in the world who made them and they are in ........Germany . Tbere's a strange irony !! It cost IIRC something over £25,000. Of course, they supplied one within just a couple of days and the plane flew out while we were still there.

Cheers

Julian.

[Motorsport Micky]

" Apparently, there was only one company in the world who made them and they are in ........Germany . There's a strange irony !! "

No more ironic when you realise that the prototype Messerschmidt 109 models were powered by their nemesis in a Spitfire ie a Rolls Royce engine ! ain't life funny sometimes.

Micky

[martin]

clever buggers you lot
vince

sorry i let you down vince

[Mike Stevens]

Well, in the workshop was a Spitfire with no prop - turned out to be (the only ?) two seater trainer left in the world, flown by a lady who learnt to fly it after her husband, who owned it, died.

The 'Grace' Spitfire.

We heard quite a few V12s flying around yesterday. At one point the BBMF Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire flew past, not so close so I could see the marks, but the sound of those 72 pistons was awe inspiring.

Cheers,
Mike.

[jleyton]

in a Spitfire ie a Rolls Royce engine ! ain't life funny sometimes.

Still got my Dad's Merlin workshop manual

Cheers

Julian

[bunny]

sorry i let you down vince

Martin at the national you spotted that tank buster when it was not much bigger then a dot in the sky, so let me down i don't think so
vince