| 1 |
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: |
| 2 |
> On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
| 3 |
> > It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane |
| 4 |
> > from |
| 5 |
> > the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a |
| 6 |
> > Spitfire. |
| 7 |
> You have an actual flying Spitfire nearby? Wow! I thought Evelyn was the |
| 8 |
> last airworthy model left anywhere. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
> For those who don't know, Evelyn was a Mk IXe and spent years in a kid's |
| 12 |
> playground in Pretoria (the city I grew up in) before someone started |
| 13 |
> restoring her in the late 60s. She was rebuilt at Zwartkop Air Force |
| 14 |
> Base (where I spent time as an apprentice) and stored at Lanseria |
| 15 |
> Airport (where I've spent many a happy hour drinking fine wares at the |
| 16 |
> restaurant above the apron). |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> Last I heard, she was sold and ended up in Brazil... |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
Considering there are companies selling flights in them: |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
http://flywithaspitfire.com/ |
| 23 |
http://tigerairways.co.uk/spitfire-flights.html |
| 24 |
(from this one: |
| 25 |
To the best of our information there are about 50 Spitfires currently flying |
| 26 |
Worldwide. Of these only five are two-seaters (converted Mark 9’s), three in |
| 27 |
the UK and two in the USA) |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
Never mind that there are quite a few scale models flying around :) |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
-- |
| 32 |
Joost |
Archives