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Re: Looks like Historic Flying have FINALLY sold something

Posted by Harm Jan Strating on Fri May 09, 2003 10:59:38 AM

In reply top Re: Looks like Historic Flying have FINALLY sold something posted by Mikael O on Fri May 09, 2003 10:30:44 AM

:Hi Mikael,

What about 100 hours from the backseat of a Harvard to start with, followed by a similar number of hours in an early-mark Spitfire before converting to a Griffon-engined mark?

Maybe the deal includes some training in PV202 as soon as that one is ready again. I understood that HFL is planning to use this machine as for training.

Harm-Jan Strating (Busy counting his money to see if some training in PV202 is achievable)
"Mr Russell, who was learning to fly, was hoping to pilot
: the plane "
:
: I just hope that this "horse" is not to hot for a novice p
: ilot...
:
: Let's say I have the money, but no previous experience wit
: h piloting an aircaft. How many hours, and on which types
: would I need to be able to fly a Spitfire (or other hot wa
: rbird) with a good chance of bringing it down in one piece
: and also be able to handle incidenses that might occur.
:
: /Mikael
: Who have no realistic dreams of piloting a Spitfire but nu
: rtures a dream of operating a Tiger Moth or Klemm 35 type
: aircraft.
:
: : This appeared on the Ananova news website today
: :
: : "Canadian pays ?1 million for wartime Spitfire
: :
: : A Canadian architect has paid more than ?1 million for a
: r
: : estored Spitfire thought to have been the first allied p
: la
: : ne to land in France after D-Day.
: :
: : Ed Russell, who is in his late sixties, will have the vi
: nt
: : age aircraft shipped from England to Ontario in the next
: f
: : ew months.
: :
: : The Spitfire was built in 1944 and originally flown by 3
: 12
: : Squadron during the Second World War.
: :
: : After the war it was bought by the Belgian Airforce and
: fe
: : ll into disrepair.
: :
: : In 1987, the Spitfire was bought by the Historic Flying
: Co
: : mpany - which is based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, and s
: pe
: : cialises in restoring vintage aircraft.
: :
: : Experts worked for two years reassembling the plane whic
: h
: : is now in full flying order.
: :
: : A spokeswoman for the company said Mr Russell, who was l
: ea
: : rning to fly, was hoping to pilot the plane when it arri
: ve
: : d in Canada."
: :
: : Philip.
: :
: :
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