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Re: Geneseo Buchon and Spit?
Posted by Ryan Keough on Fri Oct 03, 2003 01:14:57 PM
In reply top Geneseo Buchon and Spit? posted by Mike Henniger on Fri Oct 03, 2003 07:44:38 AM
Interestingly enough this past July at the Geneseo Airshow, the Spitfire from Fighter Factory ended up blowing a tailwheel. When someone asked Bill Anderson if he had anything that would help fix it, he promptly disappeared for about 45 minutes and came back with not one, but two new mounted Spitfire tailwheels... one with treads and one smooth, and offered it to the pilot. Bill has these planes stashed away somewhere close to the airport (maybe in the multitudes of trailers that are scattered about?) and I am sure both of them are there and won't see the light of day for a while.
Ryan Keough
: : Jim Bates who frequents the forum said he saw it , along
: w
: : ith a Spit XVI, back in the days it was called the 'Nati
: on
: : al Warplane Museum'.
:
: Ahhhh... way back then. Can't tell you anything about it
: then.
:
: : A bit of a mystery as to where the Buchon [ and the Spi
: t]
: : went. [ although I am sure Peter A knows about the
: : latter ;-)]
:
: The Spit was disucssed here recently (last 6 months). I b
: elieve it consisted of a fuseelage but no wings? Or I mig
: ht be confusing it with the one that was once reference to
: be at Carp (near Ottawa).
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: Regards,
:
: Mike