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12-07-2010, 06:52 PM
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some nice pencil drawings of ac and pilots and at a decent price...
http://www.lonnieortegaaviationart.c...lectables.html
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12-14-2010, 07:05 PM
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stole this from another forum i belong to...but you boys in the UK might want to visit this or donate to the cause...
Hi all a couple of years ago JG668 was put up for sale as a failed project in Australia, and as there are very few spits left in flying condition our aviation foundation was desperate to get our hands on it. So we had to do a deal 1x P51 Mustang and £150,000 later we got her, we had the spit shipped over from Australia to her new home here in Wales United kingdom. It really was a shame to see the mustang go though, what an amazing piece of American engineering all we need to do now is raise enough money to get her finished and flying, so we are appealing anyone interested in Aviation to help us. The Plan: Convert the spitfire into a 2 seater, this will allow us to give people a flight in the spit (all donators will get a free trip in the spit once ready) Build the museum to educate people about WWII pilots and crew who flew the spitfire and to raise further finances to complete the spitfire Travel to air shows in UK Europe and USA Pictures of The Spitfire Can Be Found on our Site In the Gallery http://www.spitfireviii.com/ Anyone living in the UK may visit the spitfire on weekends just contact me from the website auction/contacts page Thanks all
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12-15-2010, 12:54 AM
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P 39 found
pics are in a previous post...here's the video. http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=87804472001
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some cool pics of republic ac...its a thread from another forum.
http://www.warbirdinformationexchang...41dbffe8993852
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12-15-2010, 07:08 PM
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just in time for christmas. from the archives of ww1....
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12-16-2010, 09:09 AM
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Some great vids from the History channel:
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12-17-2010, 07:52 PM
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Forgotten Spitfire to fly again.
Sunday Telegraph, July 25 2010 For decades the fighter plane lay submerged in a river bank, an unnoticed casualty of the Second World War. Now, a Spitfire that crashed in 1940 will finally take to the skies again after the most detailed restoration project of its kind. The painstaking reconstruction of aircraft X4650 coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and a public competition to design a Spitfire memorial. It also shines a spotlight on the extraordinary story of its young pilot, Howard Squire, who was flying the plane on a training mission led by RAF legend Alan "Al" Deere when the pair collided over North Yorkshire. Sgt Squire, now 89, has visited the restoration project and hopes to see the finished aircraft fly over the south coast of England later this year. Those involved in the project believe X4650 will be the most accurately rebuilt Mark I Spitfire in the skies and will contain the highest number of original parts. The wreckage was only discovered in the long hot summer of 1976 when low river levels exposed the metal embedded in a clay riverbank near Kirklevington, Cleveland. It had been there since December 28th 1940, when Sgt Squire, then 20, bailed out after colliding with (Spitfire) X4276 flown by Flg Off Deere, a flight commander with 54 squadron at RAF Catterick. New Zealand-born Deere, a Battle of Britain legend who went on to become an air commodore, was giving his junior a lesson in how to keep doggedly close to an enemy aircraft. "Stick to me like glue," he told Sgt Squire - a line that inspired a pilot training scene in the 1969 film Battle of Britain. However, the young man stuck too close and his plane - then only a few months old - hit Deere's tail with its propeller at 12000 feet, forcing them both to ditch. "I thought I was for the chop," said Sgt Squire, who now lives near Birmingham. "There aren't many pilots who knock their flight commander out of the sky. He was very good about it." Sgt Squire was shot down over France on February 26th 1941, and became a prisoner of war. He said, "The Spitfire was a beautiful aircraft, like a Tiger Moth but with real power. A doddle to fly. We used to throw them about all over the place, as unfortunately I demonstrated." The nature of the crash-landing proved essential to the Spitfire's revival. In order to provide himself with the safest escape in his parachute, Sgt Squire had set the controls for a stable flight that led to a slow almost level descent into the riverbank rather than a high-speed impact that might have destroyed many more of the parts. The aircraft has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to restore but is now thought to be worth more than £2 million and is expected to enter private ownership. It is currently registered to Peter Monk, a Spitfire enthusiast who has spent 15 years overseeing the complex project in which the engine has been refurbished in Gloucestershire and the airframe restored by craftsmen in the Isle of Wight. There are currently about 50 Spitfires flying - the highest number since the early 1950s. Britain was littered with wrecks in the years after the Second World War until enthusiasts began to recover them for sale or for museums. The fighter plane was designed by R J Mitchell at Southampton's Supermarine seaplane factory following urgent requests from the Ministry of Aviation because of the looming conflict with Germany. So many orders were placed that production was spread to additional sites including Castle Bromwich near Birmingham, where X4650 was built. Air Cdre Deere was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in a ceremony conducted by George VI on June 28th 1940 at RAF Hornchurch in north London. He retired in 1977 and died in 1995. His ashes were scattered over the Thames estuary from a Spitfire of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.'
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