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By: 9th April 2012 at 10:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The more the merrier! Can't have enough Spits!
By: 9th April 2012 at 11:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That's not what Goering thought ;)
Moggy
By: 9th April 2012 at 11:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-:) will it be at *******:)
How much of it remains,is there enough for a genuine rebuild.
By: 9th April 2012 at 11:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-As much as many others I'm sure!
By: 9th April 2012 at 11:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That's not what Goering thought ;)Moggy
'Dolfo' Galland chose to disagree with Hermann though, Moggy...:)
By: 9th April 2012 at 11:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Looking at the registration, I wonder whether it will have a blue stable-mate
By: 9th April 2012 at 13:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940.
A group of pilots of No 303 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF walking toward the camera from a Hawker Hurricane after, purportedly, returning from a fighter sortie. Left to right, in the front row are; Pilot Officer Mirosław Ferić, Flight Lieutenant John A Kent (Commander of 'A' Flight), Flying Officer Bogdan Grzeszczak, Pilot Officer Jerzy Radomski, Pilot Officer Witold Łokuciewski, Pilot Officer Bogusław Mierzwa (obscured by Łokuciewski), Flying Officer Zdzisław Henneberg, Sergeant Jan Rogowski and Sergeant Eugeniusz Szaposznikow. In the centre, to the rear of this group, wearing helmet and goggles is Flying Officer Jan Zumbach.
By: 9th April 2012 at 13:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-So they got the data plate, half way there, bolt a pair of wings onto it with a cockpit and few other bits, and bob's yer uncle, Legends beckons!
By: 9th April 2012 at 13:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-"The excavation at the crash site took place, I believe, in 1982. I do not know the detail of what was recovered save to say that the CBAF constructor's data plate from the cockpit was found."
See my signature below.....
By: 9th April 2012 at 13:54 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Perhaps they were at the auction....!!!!!?????
By: 9th April 2012 at 16:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-This video clip shows the other aircraft involved in this action taxying past the camera. It was "RF-R", Hereward the Wake, P8039. A presentation aircraft bought by the people of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/polish-airmen-and-their-president
By: 10th April 2012 at 08:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-....which now (possibly) lies 850 yards SW of Dungeness Point.Get your diving gear out, but look out for the nuclear power station cooling intake or outfall!
Has that particular Spitfire got a "Dungeness B" Wing?
By: 10th April 2012 at 11:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-:) will it be at *******:)How much of it remains,is there enough for a genuine rebuild.
Quite a lot, they managed to recover a cigarette butt from the bottom of the cockpit which reputedly fell from the lips of the chap at Supermarine who fitted the wings.
It will be encapsulated in resin and bolted to the inside of the cockpit to insure
originality with the real aircraft.
By: 10th April 2012 at 17:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Come on chaps,
Step back in reality, this is how this works for the CAA. Accept it or seek
a new pastime to enjoy. You don't have to like it, but it doesn't
help repeating this over and over again. Remember, it's the Spitfire forum, or was it the Lancaster forum,.......;)
Keep them coming, in droves please.
Cees
By: 11th April 2012 at 11:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I'm waiting for the first restoration of a Spitfire based on a pencil rubbing of a real data plate taken from a Spitfire that took part in the Battle of Britain that was subsequently shot down and converted to aluminium ingots which later became a fine set of kitchen saucepans after going through separate lives as a Lancaster, a toaster, a Vulcan then finally finding fame after being used by Nigella Lawson.
Now that won't be a data plate special that will be a hot plate special :D
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By: xtangomike - 9th April 2012 at 09:46
Hmmm.....this is a new one, anyone got some history or details ?
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=TCHZ