The Fighter Collection

Category: TFC – engineering

  • The week after Legends

    Hangar Talk I can only liken the feeling in the week following Flying Legends to climbing the steepest and highest mountain; (months in the planning and weeks in the execution) only to throw yourself off at the top once you reach the summit, such is the anti-climax post FL. This years FL brought us some…

  • Pre Legends Wednesday

    Just  like  a  number  9  bus, all quiet and then they all  take off together!  great  day, great  flying, hope to see  you all at the week end

  • La Ferte 2016

    Our photographer sent these through last night, as he is a photographer he doesn’t do writing so we will have to guess what was going on. First off, Bob and Chris M. take a well earned rest having just enjoyed the best of  French cuisine. Next up Roy (you can never be too careful) Smith…

  • New Miss Velma film

    Our  colonial engineer  Lawrence was up  in Miss Velma  recently with his old super  8   cine  camera.  We put the results on our  Facebook  page but if  you  don’t do Facebook  here is  the  video:   [x_video_embed type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed]

  • Happy New Year

    First engine run of 2016 after enqine maintenance . Fighter Collections TF-51 Miss Velma caught in a rare glimpse of sunny weather between showers at Duxford.

  • XIV out today

    We   have a  catch up  from last week still to post  but   here we go with today’s activities: The XIV was out for a spin for a display today, with the usual suspects in to help.

  • The day after yesterday

    With all our efforts for the last few months focused on a certain weekend in July (Flying Legends) the morning after is somewhat of an anticlimax and leaves one thinking what on earth do we do now …..? Well the first thing to do is to thank everybody for their time and contribution (our volunteers…

  • View from the Office

    Martyn decided he wanted  to  go to Holland at the  end of May.  As  luck would have it our  Mustang and Corsair were going that way.      

  • Fair stood the wind for France

    We are grateful for contributions from our Friends in France, John Fox and Fred of FBD Studio for these contributions both on the ground (featuring a rather shy and retiring TFC engineer ) and in the air with Nick proving anything a Spitfire can do the Gladiator can too!  Just to say both are now …

  • 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. [x_video_embed type=”16:9″]…