Want to buy a Spitfire?

Ok Ok I can see the funny in that. Yes my name is also my profession for the last few decades. But I did in fact build one of those for a client a while back and it was by no means the hardest build I have done to date. The designers of the airframe took most of the difficulty out of building it while retaining proper shape and form.

Worst that can happen in that. ... a whole pile of scrap aluminum in the trash can if transport canada says no way it's flying
 
jetdoctr said:
Ok Ok I can see the funny in that. Yes my name is also my profession for the last few decades. But I did in fact build one of those for a client a while back and it was by no means the hardest build I have done to date. The designers of the airframe took most of the difficulty out of building it while retaining proper shape and form.

Worst that can happen in that. ... a whole pile of scrap aluminum in the trash can if transport canada says no way it's flying
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no, if its not flyable, it can still go on a post in the front yard. paint it pink, claim its just a lawn flamingo if anyone asks
 
jetdoctr said:
Ok Ok I can see the funny in that. Yes my name is also my profession for the last few decades. But I did in fact build one of those for a client a while back and it was by no means the hardest build I have done to date. The designers of the airframe took most of the difficulty out of building it while retaining proper shape and form.

Worst that can happen in that. ... a whole pile of scrap aluminum in the trash can if transport canada says no way it's flying
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I can appreciate your profession based on your handle. Based on my handle, which has also been my profession since 1984, I will not be at the controls of anything in the air unless it's on a simulator. I have, however, been at the controls of something much more expensive on and under the water. I envy those that can can fly so it's nice to dream. When someone mentions wishes on a warbird I'm afraid I can't resist. Don't we all want to fly?
 
Fifteen Hurricanes and six Spitfires - all in the same formation.......

sigh............

Here's a couple of little poems I wrote back in 1998, to be read out at our mess-night dinner commemorating Battle of Britain Day.

Dear Mrs Brown…

Dear Mrs Brown, your son is dead,
I didn’t know him well.
I only saw him once or twice,
Before he fell.

At breakfast, just like all the lads,
He scoffed his jam-smeared bread.
“Just like mum’s!” he joked to me,
And now he’s dead.

I didn’t see him hit at first –
Just a hint of fire.
Then suddenly, without a sound,
The flame became a pyre.

There was nothing we could do,
Two others went the same way too.
A silent crash, that noiseless flash.
Young Brown, went down.

So, Mrs Brown, this dreadful letter,
I really wish I’d known him better
But half a day’s no time at all,
A good lad, so sad.

I’ll miss him, just like all the others.
I’m going to write to all their mothers,
Until one day, just wait and see,
Someone will do the same for me.

Tac Foley 1998

Battle of Britain – 1940

Twelve took off, young and bold.
An hour sped.
Six landed, tired and old.
The rest are dead.

Who knows their end?
Their lives expended.
What pain was theirs?
Least said, and soonest mended.

They died. We live in debt.
We owe the price they paid.
That we walk in peace today
Was dearly bought, and dearly paid.

Tac Foley 1998
 
Well, at least I got to sit in a Spitfire at a museum in the U.K. My shoulders touched BOTH SIDES OF THE COCKPIT!
Also got to sit in the cockpit of a MIG 23 at a U.S. air force museum.
Sat in a lot of A7D's and K's while working on them
 
You can afford this one.110Lbs cardstock,your favorite printer,scissors and white glue



This is paper model circa 1973 i think.There is a bunch of free Spitfire models free for download on the net.
Currently building paper F4D Skyray :)
 
revilo said:
The Draken is only 425,000...I smell an investment opportunity! Group buy?
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The Draken is a single seater that just goes fast, smokes, burns fuel and parts. (But isn't that the complaint about every race-thing?)

I'd be more inclined to spring for the two-seat A4 Skyhawk "Scooter". Demilitarized and pressurized. If a fellow was svelte enough to get into the backseat, the view might still be tolerable.
 
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