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That's a great initiative. Looking at the pictures, I can see that the plane is carfully 'wrapped'. Good idea! Repainting it afterwards would be pretty costly as well.
Hopefully this is okay to post on here and not crossing the forum fundraiser..
On our local news there was a piece about a Spitfire owner and pilot who is raising money for NHS charities, for a small donation of £10.00 or more you can nominate a name to be hand written on the aircraft, it’s all hand written by the owner’s wife and they think they have room for 80,000 names..
My late Dad loved aviation and the Spitfire was a favourite, the NHS done an amazing job looking after him over the years so I have nominated his name.
https://www.aircraftrestorationcompany.com/nhsspitfire
Last edited by murkeywaters; 20th August 2020 at 14:21.
That's a great initiative. Looking at the pictures, I can see that the plane is carfully 'wrapped'. Good idea! Repainting it afterwards would be pretty costly as well.
This Spitfire is starting a UK wide tour today, flying past many of our hospitals.
Here's the schedule: https://www.aircraftrestorationcompany.com/nhsspitfire
Thanks, its all a bit far up the country for me but hopefully some of you northerners get to hear that Merlin V12..Originally Posted by JohnnyE
I'm about 5 miles from one of the hospitals so I think I'll try and get over with the DSLR. Never heard one in reality before.
I'm about a mile or 2 from the end of Teeside airport runway, should see and hear it taking off any minute, unless i missed it at 11.20
Got to see and hear the Spitfire starting up and taking off today. Nice couple of flyovers also. Really please to have seen and heard it.
Last edited by Mr Tetley; 18th September 2020 at 21:32.
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