As some of you are well aware I'm building a plane (the missus keeps complaining about the piles of wood!)
Now I wanted to start looking into buying off-the-shelf parts and their cost, so I contacted a number of suppliers both in America and Europe, so far I've had a lot of "If you send us a wad of cash we might send you a catalogue" type messages, one letter to the same effect. A number of non-responses (oddly all the British companies, I guess we are still far behind America in customer service About a century or so behind), but one American company has totally impressed me.
Wag-Aero sent me their full catalogue for no charge! I was so impressed by this customer service that I'll be buying quite a lot of bits off them! In fact I won't be using anyone else!
So well done Wag-Aero, a really nice bunch of people who care And set an example to the rest of the aviation industry

Ozzy

PS. They even do some Spitfire type gauges These guys are great

Full sized real flzing aeroplane. I figure its going to take a few years (try about a decade!) to build this. The wing plans give me nightmares, and I've only just started making fuselage ribs..... Eeek

Mark 8)

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I worked as a purchasing agent for a medical manufacturing firm for 13+ years, and have much experience in sourcing materials. If you can show yourself as representative of an established business organization (in your case a school?), you should have no trouble getting loads of free product literature (in some cases, free samples) of everything you're looking for (I used to get inundated with product lit. & sales brochures). Maybe you could use your institutions letterhead stationary when requesting information......tell them it's an advanced school project....even register your own company and run it out of your garage! The key here is that suppliers want to know that you're a serious buyer with money to spend, not Joe Schmoe idly looking to pick up a loose component.

There are loads of sources of new & used aircraft components here in the U.S. I'd suggest using the Thomas Register for the major manufacturers and distributors; there are also many sales ads in the popular aviation magazines (try Trade-A-Plane for starters). Good luck!

Are you building a full scale flying spit or a home build lookalike mini? Either way it sounds pretty cool 8).

can i ask what color you intend to paint it in??
incidently working 6 hours a day, for 2 days a week(weekend) will take roughly 416 days which is about 8 years??? maybe a little less
however when you add in school holidays breaks and personal holidays, your prob looking at about 3 years possibly less. assuming there is a constant work rate and no major hold ups.

cool ozz,   i have a set of plans for the 3/4 scale MJ,  but i'm really short on funds so i haven't begun any work at all.  are you going to use a big beefy v8 or are you looking for an Allison or some other V12?

oh.... you should check out Aircraft Spruce and Specialty Co.   they have tons of goods,  i think i even saw custom canopy adds.

                                              .....rooks

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Come one, we all know that's not the real reason your doing the spitfire