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For me the amazing thing is not that it emerged from the sands after fifty years...but how commonplace must crashed Spits have been in France in 1940 that the Germans didn't try to recover this one straight after it went in?

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I find these stories all a little odd, in the sense that, looking at the wreck
they begin with, one rather suspects that there is hardly a scrap of the
original material in the "restoration", and that the process is rather more
like a creation of an exact replica, with tatters of the original sitting about
in the shop to provide inspiration. I wonder if this has something to do
with registration of aircraft, that there is some sort of bureaucratic benefit
to claiming a continuation of a previously existing flightworthy unit rather
than having to register a new one. This is not the most extreme example
of this I've seen, the one local to my region, http://www.y2kspitfire.com ,
is a far more extensive reconstitution, but it does seem to be a general
practice. At some point, I expect to see a "restoration" conducted of an
aircraft whose extraction from the crash site yields 3 kgs of oxidized sheet
metal.

Have a read of this as well as the author of the thread is involved http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... p?t=110762

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908117060/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=10PCBNN92ETPM5CKAFFB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

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It has taken a very long time, publishing the book was put back from Xmas, but it is finally here and I have a copy in my hands. It was eventually published to coincide with the Jubilee airshow.

It is an interesting and detailed account.

I'm a little disappointed at the reproduction of the pictures, someone saved a couple of quid on the paper stock...

She'll be on the 'circuit' of airshows this year again, and you won't get many other opportunities to see a real flying 1940 period Mk1 spit, with the half and half under wing colouring, and the hand pumped undercart.

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I saw this Mk. 1A last weekend in Duxford. It was pretty damn great.

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Beautiful sequence.

Not long ago I read an article on aircraft preservation which suggested that a surprisingly small amount of the original need be incorporated to qualify the finished job as a restored aircraft but I wouldn't say that there are anything like firm guidelines.

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There is a section in the book where he (the author) talks about how much is still original.

Inevitably lots of 'bits' and 'knobs' went missing as souvenirs, from the german soldiers on the beach to the removal from the water and storage in France.

The whole situation has been considerably helped, for the restoration, by the wealth of information now available. Both from original plans through to the 'Haynes' spitfire manual... The spit has been extensively studied as a very iconic aircraft, and modern production techniques often make it easy to recreate missing or corroded parts. There is a small industry dedicated to maintaining and repairing these 'planes.

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