A Busy Sunday

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Today was partly spent  playing  Hangar  Drafts where  Martin decides we need the aircraft at the back  of the  hangar moved to  the  front.  In over  20 years of    moving aircraft at TFC  no one  has yet devised a simple  solution.  Anyway  having moved some of the  aircraft outside we thought it might be a  good  idea to  fly a …

Seven Days in May

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In the 7 days  leading up to the IWM air display at the end of  May   TFC were   “busy”. Despite this  they  managed to  grab a few clips of video.  We were  also lucky enough to  catch the  TFC  Hellcat (thanks to Pete C from veao who were setting up the Flight Sim stuff in the  hangar at the time …

TFC at Duxford May Show

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Great Weather  today !  A few  pictures  of TFC  aircraft and  some of the crew participating in the week end  Great to see and chat to everyone who stopped  by the  Friends of TFC stall:   First the  Flight Simulation department who were  busy  both  days EP120 who  had  great fun in the tail chase with the Buchons and assorted  …

Spitfires

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After   the  reports from Chino over the  week end (thanks  JBS) we are  back to the  hangar at  Duxford today.  TFC Spitfire  MK V EP120 has  been out on the  line for engine  tests today While work is  also continuing on the Mk XIV with reassembly of the  Griffon engine well advanced.  We will  be  providing more  detail of the  …

TFC Volunteers

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We’ve  been  following the engineers work during the last week.  Today it is the  turn of  the  volunteers. So  first thing a  meeting to decide on a plan of  action in a rather  chilly  hangar as the heating was on strike:   Next off to clean the Hellcat and Spitfire which had been covered with dust during the floor repairs …