News from Hangar Number 2
The Nimrod recently had the engine re-installed after a few tweaks. Today it was successfully run up in preparation for the coming air show season.Elsewhere in the hangar work continues on the P-40F and Sea Fury T-20 as well as the Mustang TF-51.
A fuller report will feature in the upcoming issue of Fighter Log
TFC Harvard is busy today as a number of the pilots are in for a training session. Note: it is not planned to fly any of the other aircraft today!
Edit second pic from the flight line this morning.
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Flying Legends 2012 information bulletin:
We start our Flying Legends 2012 news bulletins with some information to help you enjoy your visit: Previously mentioned on our Flying Legends information page, the Keep Calm and Picnic boxes are now fully launched, see poster below.
They are pre-order only so please contact here: Email – duxfordevents@elior.com / T 01223 497501
Collect on the day at Wing Co Joe’s Café from 11.00am.
Located between Air & Sea and Battle of Britain, opposite the control
tower.
Just the one photo for today, taken by Heath Cron who was lucky enough to be visiting TFC today:
News tonight, P-47 and Corsair test flights just taken place together, photo to follow
Next Harvard and Hawk been up.
A bit of a wet Sunday has allowed us to start finalising the latest Fighter Log ready for the printers.
Those of you who view the diary through the main www.fighter-collection.com website will be pleased to know we have sorted out the gremlins and the page is fully viewable within the website. We will be adding more features to the website over the coming weeks.
Lots of tweaking in the hangar this week – just a week ago the Corsair was a fire breathing dragon:
We would obviously like to see you on the TFC diary pages but we know there are a lot of Friends of TFC followers on Facebook so; with a bit of fettling we are again able to link our diary posts to Facebook.
More later.
First photograph and video of P-47 “Snafu” test flight in preparation for Flying Legends 2012.
