The Fighter Collection

Category: spitfire-mkV

  • A Busy Sunday – the video

    We ran the moving picture  cameras while the aeroplanes  ventured into the  sunlight on Sunday and caught a  few engine runs  (we have  cheated and included the  Kestrel engine in the Nimrod from earlier in the week as well as),   Spitfire   and Wildcat  but we  didn’t think that would  be a  problem.

     

  • A Busy Sunday

    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 couple of them.  By  coincidence Al Wade  was   wandering around so we strapped him in the Spitfire Mk Vb and Wildcat and told  him he couldn’t go  home until  he  had flown them both.
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    EP120 out and about:

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    And the Wildcat:

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  • We are getting dressed again

    A quick  view of the  hangar with  more bits  being put  back on the aeroplanes  than taken off since the last  update.

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  • TFC at Duxford September Airshow

    Our photo report on TFC at the show on Saturday and  Sunday, others will have pictures on the internet  of Lancasters, a 727 and other assorted  goodies.  A much busier day  for us on the stand and VEAO in the hangar.  Video of our planes in action will be along later:

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  • One day in June and getting busy

    Sunday  22nd June and a busy  day in the hangar and on the airfield.  A full post today with  both video record  and photos of the  days activity:

    …and now the photos of the action  -first  a  display  by  Spitfire MkVb EP120 and then  the first flight this  year of the Curtiss P-40F.

    Note: we also had a practice with the weather !

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  • Busy day at Duxford

    Friday the  30th May and  the Fighter Collection had one of those  busy  days.VE6S8184

     

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  • Seven Days in May

    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 (as you do )) and just  prior to its   first   flight in a  number of  years.

    A  big thanks  to Martin and his team for  supplying a number of these  clips from  a variety of cameras! Enjoy:

  • 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  dayssmall

    EP120 who  had  great fun in the tail chase with the Buchons and assorted  Spitfires

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    The  Hawk understated as ever

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    Martyn performing checks after the Wildcat displayed

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    and  last the  Wildcat

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  • Spitfires

    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

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    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  work with this aircraft in  our new online  version of  Fighter  Log in the   future.

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  • TFC Volunteers

    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:

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    Next off to clean the Hellcat
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    and Spitfire which had been covered with dust during the floor repairs earlier this week.

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