Simviation Forum - Ozzy has competition

Jan 26^th, 2006 at 7:44am

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Good on her - a replica of a MkII in the making.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4646888.stm

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Reply #1 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 7:54am

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BBC's amazing detail as normal. 36ft long? 29ft wide?

Do they mean 36ft span and 29ft length. Would have taken 2 seconds to look that up on the net. Call themselve professional journalists... Roll Eyes

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Reply #2 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 1:17pm

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I've known about this one for a little time. Impressive work and quite a long way ahead of me in terms of construction Grin

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #3 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 3:13pm

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I've known about this one for a little time. Impressive work and quite a long way ahead of me in terms of construction Grin

I'll agree, very impressive. Do you know what the intentions are of the builder Mark?

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Reply #4 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 3:26pm

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Get her airborne and then sell her to raise money for a charity related to her sons condition (I can't remember what that is at the moment).
They haven't set ground-testing dates yet but late this year or early next year are the provisional ones. If I hear more I'll of course make suitable posts Wink

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Reply #5 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 3:56pm

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Get her airborne and then sell her to raise money for a charity related to her sons condition (I can't remember what that is at the moment).
They haven't set ground-testing dates yet but late this year or early next year are the provisional ones. If I hear more I'll of course make suitable posts Wink

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Reply #6 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 4:04pm

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The Spitfire she was building had registration X-TD I believe, and if you look here, you'll find that X-TD is the aircraft used in the BBMF.......

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/moispitfoire

(thanks to the RAF website for their BBMF Screensaver)

So does that mean that X-TD has crashed before???

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Reply #7 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 5:12pm

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The Spitfire she was building had registration X-TD I believe, and if you look here, you'll find that X-TD is the aircraft used in the BBMF.......

(thanks to the RAF website for their BBMF Screensaver)

So does that mean that X-TD has crashed before???

XT is just a Squadron code (603 Sqn in this case), D the individual letter for the aircraft.

P7350 (the aircraft's military registration/identity, which doesn't change) is the BBMF's Mk II Spitfire and the only surviving BoB Spitfire. They change the paint schemes in the BBMF every 5 or 6 years. I think this on may be up for a change at the end of 2006...

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Reply #8 - Jan 27^th, 2006 at 2:19am