Spitfire lands in Kent field
surely not,
A small correction. The one in the USA, an FB26 KA114 at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach is the one that was re-built in NZ at Ardmore. The Canadian one in Victoria BC is a Mk. 35 VR796
So there are only two airworthy at the moment, but I did see another fuselage in the back of the hangar at Ardmore. I didn't see KA114 fly before it left NZ, but I was lucky enough to be allowed to sit in the cockpit. Magical!
I am firmly in the camp of continuing to fly old aircraft for as long a possible. I think it is tragic that there is a Spitfire XVI with 638 hours in its log, marooned forever on an upper floor in the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
The props are wood (or mostly wood). My understanding is that because they break so easily in a forced landing, there is no engine shock load.
A small correction. The one in the USA, an FB26 KA114 at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach is the one that was re-built in NZ at Ardmore. The Canadian one in Victoria BC is a Mk. 35 VR796
So there are only two airworthy at the moment, but I did see another fuselage in the back of the hangar at Ardmore. I didn't see KA114 fly before it left NZ, but I was lucky enough to be allowed to sit in the cockpit. Magical!
I am firmly in the camp of continuing to fly old aircraft for as long a possible. I think it is tragic that there is a Spitfire XVI with 638 hours in its log, marooned forever on an upper floor in the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
and the props are about 6 inch stubs.
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Vet Cars don't have a problem if the donk stops, ya just rope em up and pull home, the others we all seem to like hearing and seeing zooming about do tend every now and then to have a hard time when their Donks start to misbehave, with some having the problem of coming down pretty hard,.....
my own thoughts are that people are using them more as a commercial undertaking, and thus putting far to much stress + hours onto the old Warbirds, after all when used for real 70+ years ago parts cost next to nothing and engineers climbed all over them as they landed courtesy of the huge military movements they were part of..
Vet Cars don't have a problem if the donk stops, ya just rope em up and pull home, the others we all seem to like hearing and seeing zooming about do tend every now and then to have a hard time when their Donks start to misbehave, with some having the problem of coming down pretty hard,.....
my own thoughts are that people are using them more as a commercial undertaking, and thus putting far to much stress + hours onto the old Warbirds, after all when used for real 70+ years ago parts cost next to nothing and engineers climbed all over them as they landed courtesy of the huge military movements they were part of..
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Possibly the 5th time!
Once durring WW2
Also Little Straughton 9 July 1968
and Amarillo Texas 1982
and Germany 3 May 2012
and Sept 2015 Kent
I think this is the worst damage it has suffered
Once durring WW2
Also Little Straughton 9 July 1968
and Amarillo Texas 1982
and Germany 3 May 2012
and Sept 2015 Kent
I think this is the worst damage it has suffered
