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To: DFG
Got to meet this gent and his Homebuilt full scale replica. The warbird guys shunned him for a bit and they finally let him move it to the warbird area @ the last OSH....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkoTulqA1U

It is stunning, as all Spit's are. Pictures of me showing one to the youngin's the cockpit and what this plane meant to England and Stopping the Nazi's? priceless...

BTW the latest aero stuff say yes Eliptical Curve is good, but back in the day the sort of got it backwards the rear curve on the Leading Edge is the way to go now. Still that wing is forever gorgeous...

18 posted on 05/19/2016 6:43:06 AM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: taildragger

Thanks for posting. That was really cool!


33 posted on 05/19/2016 7:28:27 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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