It was a mundane shopping trip, one weekend last year (just sorting through some SD cards) when I spotted a Spitfire parked inside the factory, where I started work blah blah years ago. It was an open day at the factory and I missed it by a few minutes. Quite a few Spit parts were manufactured there. http://www.********.co.uk/WW2talk/hda-spit.jpg
Always nice to see them. On Friday morning i saw a dakota flying just below cloud base a few hundred yards from my house - dormer window open to see it , I heard it first and thought - props ! Took me by surprise - like the Spitfire - always good to see the old girls.
Looks to be a replica. The code DU relates to No.312 Squadron which operated during the war with the Hurricane I/IIB - Spitfire IIA/IIB/VB/VC/LF IXB/ HF IX. Can't see a serial number to id the aircraft.
Looks to be a replica. The code DU relates to No.312 Squadron which operated during the war with the Hurricane I/IIB - Spitfire IIA/IIB/VB/VC/LF IXB/ HF IX. Can't see a serial number to id the aircraft. Yep no serial and the ngine covers look to clean for a working or even static example. Cant make out the panels around thr engine. Still lovely though. Been Rreading Jeffery Quill's book again must be ten years, what a great read. Kev
I thought this thread was about buying some beer from Sainsburys http://www.shepherd-neame.co.uk/humour/wallpaper1999/downed.bmp
Ah, I thought the Spitfire was on it's way to Sainsbury's. Doh! Me Too!! There's a special offer on "Big Wings" in Sainsburys all this month. Great photo though Geoff, must have brightened up the shopping trip alright!!!
Yep no serial and the ngine covers look to clean for a working or even static example. Cant make out the panels around thr engine. Kev Yep. Far too clean, no panels, no hand worked riveted ali skin - it's fibreglass! Reckon the wings must come off also, as I don't think they would get it in there by road.
I have a feeling this is the same replica Spitfire that stood outside the D-Day aviation Museum at Shoreham Airport, in West Sussex, for many years. If I'm correct, it is a glass fibre model constructed for the 1988 television series "Piece of Cake" and has received a new coat of paint since I last saw it in about 1995. And yes - it represents an LF. IX - identifiable by the longer carburettor air intake under the nose. In eary 1943 it would have been referred to as a Spitfire IXb, to distinguish it from the standard Merlin 63 powered MK IX, which was thereafter known as the IXa.
