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Offline Guppy35

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An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« on: September 17, 2011, 02:24:11 PM »
Recently rebuilt and restored Spitfire I takes to the skies.  Restored back to 1940 standards.  An absolute beauty of a Spitfire

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/goodwood-revival/8753919/A-rare-Spitfire-Mark-I-takes-to-the-skies-once-more.html
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2011, 02:30:36 PM »
Beautiful bird... digging the grass runway too.   :airplane:
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2011, 02:37:13 PM »
Thanks for the link.  Very pretty Spitfire.

Makes me want the noses on the Spitfire I, V and Seafire II fixed in AH.
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2011, 03:10:30 PM »
Absolutely marvellous. Top drawer! Thanks for posting this  :aok
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2011, 03:10:47 PM »
Nice plane, but really makes yea wonder why no one is building complete reproductions. It seems all these 1 off restores are pretty much complete rebuilds from the ground up. Seems if they can do that they could build them from scratch and sell them so we all have one in our driveway.  :D
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2011, 03:12:01 PM »
Good one. :aok

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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2011, 03:26:48 PM »
Nice plane, but really makes yea wonder why no one is building complete reproductions. It seems all these 1 off restores are pretty much complete rebuilds from the ground up. Seems if they can do that they could build them from scratch and sell them so we all have one in our driveway.  :D

I'd probably think licensing...  restoring an original that was produced under license vs rebuilding from scratch based on plans you don't own the rights to.
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2011, 03:27:50 PM »
excellent news,   can't wait to see it fly after all the tragic endings this year.  

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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2011, 03:50:53 PM »
Beautiful plane.  Just wish the pilot would have checked 6 while he had the helmet-cam.  I think RL 6 views are more generous than many may give credit...  :noid

And that shaded plate.... until more realistic light sourcing is developed in-game, I'd like to see all the various cockpit glass plates a bit more clear.
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2011, 04:48:11 PM »
Beautiful Bird! :aok
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2011, 05:14:47 PM »
Nice plane, but really makes yea wonder why no one is building complete reproductions. It seems all these 1 off restores are pretty much complete rebuilds from the ground up. Seems if they can do that they could build them from scratch and sell them so we all have one in our driveway.  :D

Consider the Flugwerk 190s and the 262s that were built in Seattle.  There are folks who are building them ground up.  I think it started with F3Fs.  I know that there were some Ki-43s that were going to be done and I believe there is a 109 building bunch trying to start up in Germany.  There was a crew doing essentially new build Allision Mustangs too in North Dakota.

The issue becomes provenance.  There was enough of the crash landed Spit that went into the rebuild/restoration to still connect it.

You think Furballer vs Land grabber is a never ending argument.  Visit any of the warbird sites and talk about when it's a new build vs a restoration.  It gets ugly.  Funny part with this one is prior to it's debut and flight, the 'it's not a real Spitfire" crowd was very vocal.  Then it was seen, and they shut up :)

Bottom line though is there are plenty of folks making new parts so that outside of the Merlin engine, you could certainly pull enough together to make a brand new Spitfire.  Same goes for Mustangs, 109s and other warbirds.
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2011, 05:50:24 PM »
Dan, is this X4650?
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2011, 06:09:23 PM »
fantastic to see a Mk I flying :aok

and great to see a proper rebuild - presumably has the original carb (and we know what the -G tailslide-o-death is like :uhoh), manual gear pump so you get the spitfire lurch and a wobble afterwards, and a dual pitch prop. not one for the casual warbird pilot ...


The issue becomes provenance.  There was enough of the crash landed Spit that went into the rebuild/restoration to still connect it.

looking at the state of it I'd guess the merlin block would be about the only original part, but if its the only usable part from the recovered wreck thats enough IMO :)
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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2011, 07:33:29 PM »
Very nice!  Thanks for posting that! <S>

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Re: An early piece of Spitfire heaven
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2011, 07:59:04 PM »
Consider the Flugwerk 190s and the 262s that were built in Seattle.  There are folks who are building them ground up.  I think it started with F3Fs.  I know that there were some Ki-43s that were going to be done and I believe there is a 109 building bunch trying to start up in Germany.  There was a crew doing essentially new build Allision Mustangs too in North Dakota.

The issue becomes provenance.  There was enough of the crash landed Spit that went into the rebuild/restoration to still connect it.

You think Furballer vs Land grabber is a never ending argument.  Visit any of the warbird sites and talk about when it's a new build vs a restoration.  It gets ugly.  Funny part with this one is prior to it's debut and flight, the 'it's not a real Spitfire" crowd was very vocal.  Then it was seen, and they shut up :)

Bottom line though is there are plenty of folks making new parts so that outside of the Merlin engine, you could certainly pull enough together to make a brand new Spitfire.  Same goes for Mustangs, 109s and other warbirds.

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