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[Ironflight]

Originally Posted by az_gila

The Spitfire does have prettier lines with it's elliptical wings though...

If you hadn't added that, I think you would have been disowned by your countrymen Gil.....

[az_gila]

Originally Posted by DAGO

Gil,

You probably have seen this one in person in the PHX area. This fellow stick built this full size replica of the Spit.

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Yes... and it's a remarkable copy considering it is wood and not metal. You have to get pretty close to see it is not a real Spitfire.

[az_gila]

Originally Posted by Ironflight

If you hadn't added that, I think they would have been disowned by your countrymen Gil.....

Yes... it's those wings....

[mike newall]

Sorry,

Having flown Crazy Horse with John Posson at Kissimmee, there is no contest.........


The Mustang wins hands down.



I am amazed they got that motor in the Mk26 Spitfire. My friend flew the first completed one in the UK with a Jabiru flat 8 cylinder motor - awful thing, overheated, had loads of problems.

The largest they fit here in the Mk 26 is the short block Isuzu V-6 producing around 250hp, similar to the Titan T-51 which I had a close look at, at Sun n Fun. The T-51 is expensive, but well engineered, performed well and plenty of space.

How did you find the slow speed handling on the Mk 26 Paul, the early ones had all sorts of problems.

[RV10inOz]

Well, it took most of my brain cells to remember how to operate that Australian-designed undercarriage....two switches, six lights, and two levers....for the TWO main landing gear! Oh yeah, there was a circuit breaker in there somewhere too....no wonder the empire fell....

That would be the Poms (British), have a look at the war in the Pacific, the Poms were nowhere. If it were not for the Aussies and Yankies we would be having sushi for dinner.....one of my favourite foods too

How they defended Britian is a mystery, if you look at aircraft designs over the last century, and chart British designs and American designs on a time line, and compare them...... The Poms had no hope. from Tiger moths to the jet age. Hopeless.

[Chino Tom]

The Spit has always been my favorite. I've spent many hours day dreaming
about a RV -3 or -4 painted like a Spit with one of those funny looking
spade control stick grips . Maybe I'll live the dream one of these days.

[TSwezey]

Paul you flew a plane with an auto engine? If or when I build again I will have to convince the maker of the spitfire to build me an engine. He has spent a ton of money on development and has been very successful with his set up.

[jbagley]

Originally Posted by Ironflight

I flew up to Cisco, Texas last Thursday night in the RV-8 (what a great way to travel on ?business? ? even stopped in College Station for dinner with Louise) so as to be in position to do a test flight in the Supermarine Aircraft Mk26B Spitfire for a future magazine article.

Let us know what magazine and publication month? I'm guessing you can't spill the beans about the Spitfire on this forum, but a pointer would be nice.

Cheers!

[n5lp]

Originally Posted by jbagley

Let us know what magazine and publication month? I'm guessing you can't spill the beans about the Spitfire on this forum, but a pointer would be nice.

Cheers!

A good bet for the magazine is "Kitplanes" but I doubt if Paul knows the month.

[panhandler1956]

I have a few hundred hours behind V-8s in this machine. It graced the covers of both Plane&Pilot and Kitplanes back in '94. Alas the company didn't really make it. FEW 2/3rd scale P-51D. They later made a TF-51 (2 seats) only a few of them were finished. It was fun though! Those V-8s sounded great! (I went through 3 of them in 2 yrs of flying) and had a full time crew chief supporting the airplane for demo/test work.




My Crew Chief, the late Rodney Dodd, was a magician with this airplane!