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Re: Fairey Battle restoration?

Posted by Ron Henry on Thu Nov 07, 2002 01:23:19 PM

In reply top Re: Fairey Battle restoration? posted by simon king on Wed Nov 06, 2002 02:56:43 PM

: : Please, please, this must be a restoration to airworthy
: Ba
: : ttle ! Then someone in the UK decides that he must buy
: it
: : !! :-)
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: The chance was presumably there with the ex-Charles Church
: Battle that ultimately went to Belgium in swaps for a Spi
: tfire (was it RN201??)
:
: Nobody seemed particularly interested then in flying a Bat
: tle - has anything changed????
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: Answer - it wasn't sexy enough,was undoubtedly underpowere
: d and spares were/are probably non existent, as well as be
: ing powered by an "early" Merlin - shame the Shuttleworth
: Trust wasn't more enlightened in those days! It would have
: fitted nicely in retrospect
:
: sk

Yes, decidedly unsexy, but possibly an interesting flying spectacle, nevertheless. I just feel that it really has a place as a flying memorial. Quite a few brave guys were sent to the slaughter in them.

Spares might be a bit of a nightmare, though I thought there was a smallish 'stock' of Battle remnants in Canada?

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