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anybody else fancy 20 as-new 1:1 Spitfire kits...?

Wow. I'd love to see them actually flying, not just sitting in a museum.

“They were just buried there in transport crates,” Mr Cundall said. “They were waxed, wrapped in greased paper and their joints tarred. They will be in near perfect condition.”
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This should be a relatively easy job to get them going again. I mean, people were able to restore to flying condition a P-38 that was buried in a glacier for 40+ years, so they should be able to restore all 20 with hardly any problems.
 
B.J. said:
Wow. I'd love to see them actually flying, not just sitting in a museum.

“They were just buried there in transport crates,” Mr Cundall said. “They were waxed, wrapped in greased paper and their joints tarred. They will be in near perfect condition.”
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This should be a relatively easy job to get them going again. I mean, people were able to restore to flying condition a P-38 that was buried in a glacier for 40+ years, so they should be able to restore all 20 with hardly any problems.
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Glacier Girl was a mess of bent metal (it was restored a couple miles from my house). These Spitfires should be much easier.
 
B.J. said:
This should be a relatively easy job to get them going again... they should be able to restore all 20 with hardly any problems.
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Excellent; we can put them on that spare second Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier that we've ordered that was otherwise going to get mothballed until we could afford the F35 air wing for it.

Fortune favours Britannia yet again; I love it when a plan comes together...... ;)
 
You know, if there's suddenly the potential to have up to five squadrons of new(ish) Spitfires (albeit Mk XIVs with the Griffon engine, and not Merlins) we should a) get a remake of The Battle Of Britain movie sorted, and b) station a couple of squadrons on the Falklands for comedy value.

You've got to admit, it's a great bit of timing that on the same day as Angela Merkel announces she wants the EU to have control of national budgets, David Cameron discovers a couple of squadrons'-worth of unused Spitfires lying around... You couldn't make that up, it was just meant to be...

Hell, I'll probably be up all night thinking of daft things to do with a bunch of new Spitfire squadrons...
 
A Fighter wing's worth of some of the most advanced piston engined fighters of WW2?


I can see a Spitfire squadron sent to Red Flag in Nevada...If the RAF decides to keep these zero hour aircraft..

with ultra low level flying, those Spits just might be the best helicopter killers ever made...


perfect for the Afghan Air Force as part of a military assistance program...



Spitfires entered in the National Air races in Reno...


The mind boggles...
 
Can you just imagine what it would be like to see, hear, and feel 60 Spitfires fly overhead? :eek:
 
gturner said:
B.J. said:
Wow. I'd love to see them actually flying, not just sitting in a museum.

“They were just buried there in transport crates,” Mr Cundall said. “They were waxed, wrapped in greased paper and their joints tarred. They will be in near perfect condition.”
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This should be a relatively easy job to get them going again. I mean, people were able to restore to flying condition a P-38 that was buried in a glacier for 40+ years, so they should be able to restore all 20 with hardly any problems.
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Glacier Girl was a mess of bent metal (it was restored a couple miles from my house). These Spitfires should be much easier.
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It sure was. I have a gang channel from that aircraft. Bought it at an airshow when they were raising funds to restore it.

Lonemagpie said:
http://www.flyingmag.com/news/start-digging-spitfires-cleared-excavation

There may in fact be up to *60* of them!
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Holy crap! That would *triple* the number of flying Spitfires in existence! :eek:

Zombie Seeker said:
Can you just imagine what it would be like to see, hear, and feel 60 Spitfires fly overhead? :eek:
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:drool: I love my jets, but there is just something special about the sound of old warbirds!
 
Lonemagpie said:
You know, if there's suddenly the potential to have up to five squadrons of new(ish) Spitfires (albeit Mk XIVs with the Griffon engine, and not Merlins) we should a) get a remake of The Battle Of Britain movie sorted, and b) station a couple of squadrons on the Falklands for comedy value.

You've got to admit, it's a great bit of timing that on the same day as Angela Merkel announces she wants the EU to have control of national budgets, David Cameron discovers a couple of squadrons'-worth of unused Spitfires lying around... You couldn't make that up, it was just meant to be...

Hell, I'll probably be up all night thinking of daft things to do with a bunch of new Spitfire squadrons...
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well we'd still need for someone to find a few dozen messerschmidts for a BOB film but, yeah that's be a lot cooler than using CG!

I do like the idea of stationing a squadron on the Falklands! :lol:

News just in! Alex Salmond has put in a provisional bid for all of them should the Scots vote yes to independance as Scotland will need an airforce...
 
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