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Re: Spit IX MJ730 update...
Posted by PeterA on Tue Oct 15, 2002 03:46:47 PM
In reply top Re: Spit IX MJ730 update... posted by Ron Henry on Tue Oct 15, 2002 02:23:45 PM
Ron,
Yes we buttoned it up with the UK TV company who advised where the footage had come from in the US and Jerry Yagen got a researcher to locate and order copy print of the whole film x2 from which we have produced the period colour prints. They are special.
Peter
: : : I went out to the Fighter Factory yesterday to chat wi
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: : : on about what they'll be having me do, as I've signed
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: : : or a cockpit detailing/restoration position... the Spi
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: : : fully stripped and just about ready to go back togeth
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: : : the port wing is done and enroute, and she'll be refin
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: : : d soon. In the interim, I have *GOT* to get my hands
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: : : digital camera while she's all apart... I'll be clean
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: : : and touching up the interior once I get out there, and
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: : : definitely looking forward to it!
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: : : Their FG-1D is just about ready for the final exterior
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: : : t, she's mechanically fully done now and they've been
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: : : ht-testing her extensively. And I found out how big t
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: : : olikarpov I-15bis is; somehow, I was surprised at that
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: : : ng! Don replied that it's still pretty light for 1000
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: : : which I really can't argue with. :)
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: : : Thought you guys might like to know.
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: : : Lynn
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: : Hi Lynn, if you do manage to get some shots of MJ730, pl
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: : se do let me know, as my parents 'adopted' this particul
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: : Spitfire a couple of years ago. They bought a flat in t
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: : large house which used to be the Officers Mess at RAF H
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: : rowbeer to the north of Plymouth, and after a bit of res
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: : rch into the airfields history we found that both this a
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: : craft and Spitfire V AR614 had both flown from Harrowbee
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: : during the war. Parents being rather sentimental creatur
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: : , they decided to take a special interest in both aircra
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: : , so any update on MJ730 would be gratefully received.
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: : Cheers,
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: : Steve
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: The present owner might like to know about a programme tha
: t was shown on Brit TV within the last couple of years. I
: can't remember its name, but it featured actual wartime co
: lour film that included some aircraft. I didn't see the pr
: og myself, but I'm fairly sure that a friend told me that
: MJ730 was, by coincidence, seen in one of the clips. Peter
: A would almost surely know..... and probably some other B
: rit WIXers, too.
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