As the Glider Season has come to an end, Victor Telkamp his agenda leaves some more room to do some work on the re-building of our crashed Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Mk.26B, PH-PSF “High Lady”. The wiring harness was transported to his house after he and Ruben Penterman had discovered that […]
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While our Chief Technical Affairs / Head of Flight Ops was enjoying a glider camp in France, Frank van den Bos was able to do some work on the Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Mk.26B kit PH-VLP. Van den Bos Aviation has other jobs to do, we agreed our project would be […]
After some delay (causes, amongst others: difference of opinion as to how much the wing root protruded the bottom of the flat rack (one (1) inch too wide versus 20(!)), what shipper could/would accept the oversized cargo and to which harbor would the vessel set sail, shipper found but not […]
Today we had planned to log yet another mile stone passage in our Replica Spitfire Adventures Diary: the arrival of Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Mk.26B kit 81, the future PH-VLP, “Prinses Beatrix” at Teuge Airport. Assistance with the unloading procedure had been arranged, as well as a fork lift that can […]
Earlier we shared the news that the insurance company had paid out. So we could proceed to transfer the purchase sum to Dan Springer and arrange the transport of our “new” Spitfire, kit 81. As we found it somewhat risky to hang up a partial assembled Spitfire (what would be […]
As most of the readers know, on the 18th of August 2022, the USAAF PRU Walter Weitner tribute Supermarine Spitfire Mk.26B 90% scale replica crash landed just short of runway 36 of Hilversum Airfield, ending up in a full-grown corn field with the right-hand gear up and retracted. Our Spitfire, High […]