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Kewl
Two seater?
Spitfire NH341 was built at Castle Bromwich as a Spitfire Low Level Fighter (LFIXE)
The restorers converted it to a two-seat T9 trainer...why the hell why would you do that with a combat veteran airframe ?!?!
Any experts know what model it was originally? Plenty of lack of detail in the story.
It looks like it was modified into a post-war TR9 design.
It’s surprising that dropping 3 million pounds on a small plane will let it fly....defies the laws of physics...
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I am reminded of the producer of “The Battle of Britain” who bought the entire fleet of Spanish Air Force Heinkels off Franco in order to make the movie.
I mean how cool was it to actually find flying Heinkels? Fantastic, he shot the phenomenal footage of fleets of Heinkel bombers once again flying over the Channel all in brilliant Technicolor.
And then viewers complained.
“Ah those are Mk VIIc Heinkels, with rear thrusting exhaust pipes that the Luftwaffe didn’t use until 1943, those are the wrong planes”.
I paraphrase their complaint.
I kinda feel the same about this, well yeah it’s a Spitfire alright, a sort of Spitfire, but it’s not, you know, a Battle of Britain Spitfire is it? It’s not a real Spitfire.
If you like warbirds, you might want to visit CalPacific Airmotive’s
website:
www.calpacificairmotive.com/
They hold most of the type certificates for the P-51 Mustang. I toured the facility a couple of years ago. They were asked if they could build a complete P-51 from scratch. While at that time, they had not yet built a completely new airframe, they told us that they have made every part that goes into one. BTW they get their Merlins from Jack Roush the Ford racer, who has a plant to remanufacture these engines. Just an amazing place!
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The brilliant English actor Leslie Howard produced and starred in a movie about the man who created the Spitfire. There is a sequence set in Nazi Germany just after Hitler took over which is chilling. BTW, Mr. Howard lost his life during WWII when the Nazis shot his down the plane he was traveling in. It is believed he was on a secret mission to Spain for Churchill.