On 28/06/2014 22:44, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane >>> from >>> the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a >>> Spitfire. >> You have an actual flying Spitfire nearby? Wow! I thought Evelyn was the >> last airworthy model left anywhere. >> > >> For those who don't know, Evelyn was a Mk IXe and spent years in a kid's >> playground in Pretoria (the city I grew up in) before someone started >> restoring her in the late 60s. She was rebuilt at Zwartkop Air Force >> Base (where I spent time as an apprentice) and stored at Lanseria >> Airport (where I've spent many a happy hour drinking fine wares at the >> restaurant above the apron). >> >> Last I heard, she was sold and ended up in Brazil... > > Considering there are companies selling flights in them: > > http://flywithaspitfire.com/ > http://tigerairways.co.uk/spitfire-flights.html > (from this one: > To the best of our information there are about 50 Spitfires currently flying > Worldwide. Of these only five are two-seaters (converted Mark 9’s), three in > the UK and two in the USA) > > Never mind that there are quite a few scale models flying around :)
I reckon I was told "only airworthy Spitfire in the world" when it was actually "onl airworthy Spitfire in Africa" I suppose that's what happens when you don't fact-check. That'll teach me :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
