Crashed WW2 Spitfire flies again after £3m refit
It's just been on PBS America too. Freeview or Sky so possibly still available.
A series of six, some substantially more about the aeroplane and some lots of waffle related to the aircraft the programme was nominally about.
A series of six, some substantially more about the aeroplane and some lots of waffle related to the aircraft the programme was nominally about.
Does anyone know if the ports were an adaption for airflow for low level or just access points for the wing?
Don't know, but would be a good place as well to run such things as nav light wiring, pitot tube line etc. Could be why they are still open.
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To clarify. The late Doug Arnold had two sons, David, very interested in old aircraft, as his father, and Peter, more interested in the arts and antiques. He also had a daughter Kay.
Spitfire historian Peter R Arnold is not related to the Doug Arnold family but to add to the confusion his wife is also named Kay.
In the mid 1970's Peter R Arnold was directly involved with Doug Arnold in the initial surveys and recovery of the 'Indian Spitfires'.
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Re the underwing access panels;
Some models of Spitfire suffered a problem where fuel vapour leaked into the leading edge and backfires from the exhaust could light them up which blew the leading edge off the wing. I imagine on early runs one would be very careful to monitor the le for fuel vapour but it's just a guess. What the designer put them there for is probably another matter.
The late Bev Snook once described to me how this happened to his personal Spit which he used to fly to business meetings wearing a pinstripe suit, bowler hat and umbrella stuffed down the side of the cockpit. The damage effectively scrapped it.
I look at the wreckage pictured above and marvel at how times have changed
Some models of Spitfire suffered a problem where fuel vapour leaked into the leading edge and backfires from the exhaust could light them up which blew the leading edge off the wing. I imagine on early runs one would be very careful to monitor the le for fuel vapour but it's just a guess. What the designer put them there for is probably another matter.
The late Bev Snook once described to me how this happened to his personal Spit which he used to fly to business meetings wearing a pinstripe suit, bowler hat and umbrella stuffed down the side of the cockpit. The damage effectively scrapped it.
I look at the wreckage pictured above and marvel at how times have changed
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In years past they have helped to identify some Spitfires/Seafires as some but not all subcontractors would stencil the military serial on the inner face.
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