The Fighter Collection

Category: corsair

  • Seven Days in June

    With a great thanks to TFC engineers for the video clips, 7 days in June!  Here are TFC planes doing what they like   best!  Operating. For optimum enjoyment set the volume at 11.

  • Friday goings on

    Corsair successfully fires  up for  first time in a while:

     

    TFC Corsair Engine test

     

    and then back to the  hangar  for a few  tweaks and checks.

    TFC Corsair -maintenance

     

    We’ll have our  video round up of the  week  later on today.

     

  • Corsair

    6 June 2014 – So that is the  engine  run for the   Corsair  then.

  • More from the archive

    So we are sitting in the excellent Duxford Aviation Society volunteers cafe last Sunday and long term TFC volunteer Gareth passes me a DVD and says “thought you might be interested guv”. Too right!

    This is part 1. “Friends of TFC” will be able to watch the “air to air” stuff in part 2 later this week. Roll on Flying Legends then.

  • Last week of January 2014

    As the  first  month of  2014 comes to an end work  continues around the  hangar.  Since last  week the  Wildcat  has  come into the  maintenance area.

    TFC Wildcat outside Hangar 2

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    wildcat -survey2

     

    wildcat plus martin

     

     

     

     

     

    While the  Corsair and Hellcat await  parts  before undergoing engine  runs.

    TFC Corsair

    The  Spitfire mk XIV is well into  the  winter servicing programme.

    TFC Spit 14

  • January 2014 pictures from Hangar 2

    We were lucky enough to have a visit from Harry Measures and his camera today – as you can see in the slideshow below most of the aircraft are receiving some winter tlc at the moment.
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  • Sunday 4th August Update

    First, we have sent an email to all recent joiners of FofTFC with log in details. please let us know if you have not received an email and think you should have.

    Today at Duxford:

    If you looked in the hangar from a tall ladder like this you may have felt nothing was going on.

    But if you looked a bit closer you would have seen the space where the Americans had taken the P-47 to bits (they had completed their Sunday chores by 10:00 and were off to find a good honest English fry up for breakfast).

    You would then have spied the progress on the Corsair engine rebuild:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Elsewhere the Hellcat was receiving some much deserved spit and polish:

    and finally of note the P40-F has propellor removed to investigate an oil leak

     

    If you have a look on Flying Machines  TV  you tube  pages you will see they have  done a great trailer  for the  upcoming  Legends 2013   DVD.

  • March update

    Well you spend a few weeks planning something for the website and then the weather doesn’t play ball. We promised something for today so please watch the video for an update on aeroplanes and news about our brand new Friends of TFC clothing – more on this later.

    We are also glad to say our latest Fighter Log has escaped to the Post Office along with our 2013 calendar – so if you are bored with that existing calendar on your wall now is the ideal time to change!

  • Friday 12th October

    Another busy day for the engineering team at TFC. The Mk XIV and Corsair were given some exercise by the Guv’nor and the Harvard was also up and about. We look forward to meeting up with Friends at our stand in the hangar on Sunday morning.

    Rob Scott caught this rather nice portrait of the Corsair for us.

  • The story so far

    Bearcat and Corsair have been up for a practice and I am informed that the pilots currently enjoying an ice cream or two! Pictures of aeroplanes later but not the ice creams.