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20off, P51 Mustangs........
Kjelle:
20 years ago, I went over to London, to meet a guy named Steve Bennet, then working at Cars & Car Conversions (remember that mag?) down at Goodwood race track. While there, at least one, if not two Spitfires went up for a flight... One was a 2 seater owned and flown by a woman I don't remember the name of (she was written about, as she took on her decesed husbands project, the Spitfire, and finished it, and for June 6, 1994, managed to locate the very ferry pilot that delivered HER Spit to the combat Sqn, AND the very pilot that flew it over the beaches during that day. I think both got a ride with her, the ferry pilot, a woman, to whatever the base was, and the combat pilot for a ride over the beaches...)
We had a few photo-recce Spits here in Sweden too, but that was later marks...
To me, a RR Merlin on full throttle in a low pass is one of the best sounds I know... And this from a guy raised during the 60's, with SAAB 35 Draken starting just around the bend from home!
Kjelle
kayzed1:
I have a two seat Spit lives two or three fields away from me, fantastic here in the show season as he lifts off over the house. The lad has been up in her a hlf dozen times as he mends the guys old cars, me only once. When we get better internet i will put some pics on.
Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: Kjelle on March 27, 2015, 01:53:38 PM ---20 years ago, I went over to London, to meet a guy named Steve Bennet, then working at Cars & Car Conversions (remember that mag?) down at Goodwood race track.
Kjelle
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Cars and Car Conversions? I devoured the Clive Trickey articles on Mini Tuning. Steve Bennet comes to mind. Did he drive a Mercedes SLK 230 and was a former member of RAF 31 Squadron? If so I parked mine along side at our Reunion to watch the Tornado flypast. Lost touch, most of us are dead or worse.
We had a Spit- probably with a Griffon in the sharp end but made wider to get a Martin Baker ejector seat in. Any bright thoughts?
Regards
Norman
Kjelle:
Wrong Steve, this guy makes me seem old! I guess his in his 40's now (Editor of Porsche & 911 world now)...
I found CCC after Clive Trickey, and have since lost almost all my copies, when moving... I was there for the last 10 or so years, met a few of the guys (Dave Walker of Emerald Cams was one hell of nice guy too)
Kjelle
Fergus OMore:
Shame really! The mags were really sensible reads. I recall reworking a 12G295 or 296 cylinder head up. It was from a MG1100 not a 998 Cooper. I then had a £10 scrap 997 block overbored 60thous. Great info. which worked.
Probably your access to further copies of CCC would be to try the British Library -actually in Colindale Avenue, NW9 next to the RAF Hendon Guardroom. Dirty Dozen and all that.
Following the posting on Merlins on the 51D's, I got two stories. One came of a plexiglas cockpit cover from a Hendon Spit and the other was the Utube of the last of Lancasters -the Canadian Warbird one and the BBMF one flying together in the UK. Sorry, I tried to load it- and failed.
Video came down from the rest of the Goldstars. Maybe someone can have more success.
The BBMF Devon- the original 'hack'was VP-981- another Hendon aircraft which I flew in - on a 'subsmash' job--HMS Truculent off Sheerness.
Regards
Norman
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