Hawker Tempest flies
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Hawker Tempest flies
Hawker Tempest MW763 has made its first post-restoration flight today, from Sywell Airfield in the hands of Pete Kynsey. According to a post on UKAR it is now safely hangared at Duxford. There is a photo here:
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Brilliant news! 
Made my day!
Made my day!
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Bloody marvellous! 
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From what I've seen, it flew Sywell to Duxford on its first flight. They did use 'Contrary Mary' as a chase plane throughout the entire flight, with an Air Leasing engineer in the backseat, and the Tempest did appear to stay near or overhead Sywell for the first part of the flight (at an appropriate altitude). I just checked, it's a straight line distance of less then 40NM, about 20 minutes or less at a conservative cruising speed I guess.
