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How do you restore a 60-year-old Spitfire to its former glory? (Read 959 times)

Jan 20^th, 2013 at 8:43am

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For Spitfire lovers everywhere Wink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2263990/Spitfire-Mk-XVII-How-res...

If you find yourself falling off a cliff, you might as well try to fly.......What have you got to lose?

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Reply #1 - Jan 20^th, 2013 at 9:41am

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RichD wrote on Jan 20^th, 2013 at 8:43am:

For Spitfire lovers everywhere Wink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2263990/Spitfire-Mk-XVII-How-res...

Wonderful!
The folks at the BBMF do such wonderful work with their aircraft don't they? Cool

‎"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation."- Igor Sikorsky

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Reply #2 - Jan 20^th, 2013 at 4:49pm

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This one is certainly more of a proper restoration, starting with a fairly complete airframe, compared to some other modern restorations (go to the right people with a Merlin and a dataplate from a Spit, and you'll have one in a couple of years). Most of the work was done "out of hours" too, IIRC.