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Re: Irish whiskey eeeh.......Seafires
Posted by PeterA on Thu Oct 16, 2003 03:41:03 PM
In reply top Irish whiskey eeeh.......Seafires posted by Cees Broere on Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:03:01 PM
Cees,
Regretably it is unlikely that any more Irish Seafires will turn up.
Only parts of RX168/157 emerged from the Bolton Street College with precious little of the original fuselage although the inner wings and I think the tail unit were basically complete.
In 2003 economics the Irish scrapped off over ?2m of Seafire bits lying around at the back of the hangars at Baldonnel.
PeterA
: Hi all,
:
: I recently bought a complete set of Aeroplan Monthly's (to
: ok me hours to read those) and in one of the volumes there
: were some photographs taken in the sixties of several Iri
: sh Seafire III's. Although the article mentioned that they
: were scrapped, about a decade ago one of these turned up
: with Chris Warrilow (RX168 I think). This aircraft was on
: one of the photographs in the article. Coud there be a cha
: nce that more Seafire's were saved from the scrapper's tor
: ch and might possible emerge in the future?
:
: Cees