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 :) -- Joost
