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Spitfire Re-Build
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
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--- Quote from: blackbob on January 03, 2008, 17:40:42 ---you can buy a kit replica spitfire from america full size to
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This one
http://www.spitfireaircraftco.com/
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And I bet it comes with American instructions with American/Hollywood history notes telling you all about how it was the Americans who designed it, and that it was no good until American pilots flew it (granted there were some very high scoring American pilots in the Battle of Britain) and that they used it very well at Pearl Harbour before they 'saved our butts in 'dubya dubya one one'. :roll:
Boggert:
Yep, true LSP, but they had serious hearing problems as we rang the bell in 1939 but they did not hear it till 1941, but still they won the war didn't they! :roll:
Anyhow, its made of wood :shock: But it looks the biz I suppose.
Range Rover Blues:
Is the replica Spitfire still less succesful than the replica Hurrican then ;)
freelanderpx54:
They have got a fully restored Spitfire in the Airplane museum on Malta. Very nice it is
paulhumphries:
--- Quote from: Lord Shagg-Pyle on January 03, 2008, 12:31:40 ---I wonder if he got this for Christmas?
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I've got a genuine WWII manual on Merlin engines and additional section on Spitfires.
My father-on-law was a RAF mechanic during WWII and gave me his training & workshop manuals etc.
BTW the biggest RAF "warehouse" is RAF Stafford.
Each of hangers have 26 miles of shelving and nobody had ever done a full inventory.
A retired officer set up a compnay and undertook that as a private contractor.
He found mountains of new WWII parts including Spitfire items.
The biggest suppler of genune WWII Spitfire parts in the world, Supermarine Aero Engineering Ltd, is near me and started with this treasure trove of RAF surplus parts that nobody knew existed.
The local (Hanley) museum has a Spitfire as Mitchell was born here and it's undergoing restoration in full view of the public.
http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/default.asp?resource=17395
Not to flying condition therfore isn't a comprehensive as the one in the article but it's amazing what is still available.
Paul Humphries
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