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Re: Spitfire XVI SL721

Posted by Tom on Sun Aug 11, 2002 06:03:57 AM

In reply top Spitfire XVI SL721 posted by dumaresqc on Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:53:58 PM

The last I heard was she was being repaired, don't know where though. In an accident like this you can easily stress the spars and spar-capping in the wings as the undercarraige pintle is fixed to these by means of bolts through the spars and capping. If they were lucky and they weren't stressed it won't be such a major job to repair but in recent years in the UK there have been increasing numbers of pintle failures which may have been the cause of the problems on 721. My boss flew her in the early '80's and said that she was a veritable death trap then so god knows what she's like now, Chris Woods was wise to sell her methinks ;)

Tom ;)

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