Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, that is very interesting. I couldn't understand at the time why it wasn't on the infield, but at a static display outside the circuit. BTW I do have a photo somewhere of the line-up with the Thunderbolt and a flock of Spits and Spit derivatives taking off at the end of the weekend. I'll see if I can find it and put it up. Peter Douglas M. Sharp wrote: > > > Peter Dzwig schrieb: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> This last I cannot claim to be anything like good. However the plane >> is claimed to be the ORIGINAL Spitfire prototype. > > > > What a lovely line-up of Mustangs Peter! and a Thunderbolt in > the background too! Though I think this shot could take a > touch more contrast, on my TFT-screen it looks a touch too grey. > > > The original R.J.Mitchell designed prototype K5054 aircraft > crashed and was totally destroyed on 2 September 1939 at > Farnborough. The pilot, F/Lt White, was killed in the crash. > > > The finished "new" prototype was unveiled in early 1993 at the > RAF Museum in Hendon. It had been built by Aerofab > Restorations funded by the Spitfire Society, on the suggestion > of one of the test pilots, as a tribute to R.J. Mitchell.The > reconstruction was based on the templates of a MkV and RJs > original drawings. > > Another tribute to him is a Spitfire on a high pole in the middle of a > carpark close to Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent) where Mitchell was born. > Douglas > >> >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/GoodwoodAirfield/SpitfireprototypeGoodwoodRevival2004 >> >> >> >> I am posting these for interest; if you like them so much the better... >> >> Regards, >> >> Peter Dzwig >> >> PS I will get round to putting the others of the Revival up soon. >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >