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Old 7th Oct 2015, 08:44
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Originally Posted by Danny42C
FED's idea is the best so far. But there are a fair number of Spitfires about. Now if somebody could dig up a reasonably intact Hurricane, that would really be something !
Almost all the Hurricane rebuilds to flight in the past 20 years (and therefore probably 75% of them currently flying or about to fly) have come out of Russia where the airframes were found where they had crashed or crashed landed during WW2.
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