'Seafire' flies again

[Newportnobby]

I know we have some plane mad folks on the forum so....................

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/pictured-seafire-seaplane-flies-again-171628780.html

[Southerngooner]

That's a thing of beauty.....

Dave

[emjaybee]

Thanks Mick!

[Bob G]

Absolutely fantastic. Just a brilliant job of restoration.

I remember the Navy air shows at HMS Daedalus at Lee-on-Solent when we used to see Swordfish, Firefly and Sea Fury flying together in  the 1970s.

One of my cousins died when his sea fury engine failed and the plane just fell into the ocean.
But it did not matter so much in those days. I had five other cousins!

Bob

[daffy]

Thanks for posting this Mick. A superb restoration of a magnificent aircraft.

Further details, including short history of '105' here:

https://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-restorations/supermarine-seafire-f-mk-xvii-sx336-takes-to-the-skies-again.html

(other webpages are available)

[Bealman]

What a beautiful aircraft. 

[Newportnobby]

One of my cousins died when his sea fury engine failed and the plane just fell into the ocean.
But it did not matter so much in those days. I had five other cousins!

Bob

Oh. That's alright then. He was expendable

[geoffc]

I know we have some plane mad folks on the forum so....................

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/pictured-seafire-seaplane-flies-again-171628780.html

Typical media reporting by somebody who cant get the facts right,  this aircraft was flying some 16 years ago and took part in the Air Show at Yeovilton in 2008. So the flight referred to in the quote is not the first since it came out of the scrap yard
Geoff

[Bob G]

One of my cousins died when his sea fury engine failed and the plane just fell into the ocean.
But it did not matter so much in those days. I had five other cousins!

Bob

Oh. That's alright then. He was expendable

It was the fifties. Planes did used to fall out of the sky more frequently than they do now.
We didn't have the legal drivers or deep emotional need we have now to find someone to take the blame, like the designer or the maintenance team then.
we simply accepted it and said "He died doing what he loved. Flying."

I have to say that I really hate the blame culture we have these days.
Perhaps if we just accepted that people don't have an explicit right to live for 90+ years, we wouldn't mind so much losing the occasional family member. Like in the "good old days".

I know this is not a conventional view, but we all have a limited time on the planet. And when it is up, it is up. Accidents do happen.

Bob

[Dorsetmike]

Another Naval air relic. Swordfish torpedo bomber AKA Stringbag, at an RNAS Culdrose airshow in the 1990s

[Steven B]

Typical media reporting by somebody who cant get the facts right,  this aircraft was flying some 16 years ago and took part in the Air Show at Yeovilton in 2008. So the flight referred to in the quote is not the first since it came out of the scrap yard
Geoff

To be fair, the report doesn't explicitly say it's never flown before since it left the scrap yard. A quick read could give that impression though

I saw it start-up, taxi and take off at IWM Duxford in 2011 - it's a thing of beauty. The Griffon engine sounds different compared to a standard Merlin.

Steven B.

[Buzzard]

Typical media reporting by somebody who cant get the facts right

Agreed.  It's been flying out of Yeovilton for at least a month.  Also no mention of the wheels up landing in France in 2011.

About a fortnight ago it did circuits over me for about 15 minutes.  Odd to see a Spitfire shape but not hear a Merlin engine.

Some proper information can be found here

https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-KASX/855891

[Great West(Midlands) Rail]

Can confirm with this my own photo taken from the Wardroom enclosure at the Yeovilton Air Day that it flew in 2015 as well

[GAD]

Nice to see a Griffon engined Spit' in the air. They gave the kamikazes a shock when the British Pacific fleet joined the war against Japan, that and the steel decks of outr carriers!