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Re: Fairey Battle restoration?

Posted by simon king on Wed Nov 06, 2002 02:56:43 PM

In reply top Re: Fairey Battle restoration? posted by Ron Henry on Wed Nov 06, 2002 01:10:07 PM

: Please, please, this must be a restoration to airworthy Ba
: ttle ! Then someone in the UK decides that he must buy it
: !! :-)

The chance was presumably there with the ex-Charles Church Battle that ultimately went to Belgium in swaps for a Spitfire (was it RN201??)

Nobody seemed particularly interested then in flying a Battle - has anything changed????

Answer - it wasn't sexy enough,was undoubtedly underpowered and spares were/are probably non existent, as well as being powered by an "early" Merlin - shame the Shuttleworth Trust wasn't more enlightened in those days! It would have fitted nicely in retrospect

sk

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