Marty_d

Me too please Mark. PM sent.

Speaking from experience, you may have been right the first time!

Reported in ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-20/glider-pilot-makes-history-central-australia/106364374

A local rag, the Kingborough Chronicle, has the story of a builder who's almost completed his 1:1 scale, 9 litre V8 powered composite Spitfire. For story and pics, download the 17/2/26 edition here: Download the Kingborough Chronicle KINGBOROUGHCHRONICLE.COM.AU Category Title: Kingborough Chronicle I met Rod a few years back at the Sandfly airstrip. If you're on this forum Rod, or anyone here knows him, I'm a big Spitfire fan so would love to see the build sometime. Cheers, Marty

Definitely fake. The aircraft 2 planes clockwise from the reversed wing one, doesn't seem to have a HS.

I hope their engineering is better than their spelling. Their manual has a "Foreward" (foreword), and talks about the "lubrification" system.

Purchasing? You should never need to buy a rooster, anyone who has chooks is happy to give excess ones away.

Not all birds mate for life. Having chooks I can tell you roosters mate with anything that moves.

My cowl is from a mould another 701 builder made. For me it was simply a means to get a semi streamlined shape from prop hub to firewall. There are quite large openings in the front, especially compared to many Rotax cowls, and an even larger outflow hole around the noseleg - so I'm hoping enough airflow circulates to work probably. If I have difficulty managing temperatures I'll have to experiment with baffles and more targeted direction of airflow. As soon as I work through the glitch list Peter and I noted, I'll start doing runs with the cowl on and see what difference that makes.

This may be a silly question - apologies if so. If I'm understanding correctly, if a 24- reg aircraft is sold with the engine on condition, the new owner can't fly until they do this annual $330 MARAP? So - what's to stop you changing the reg to 19? It's not like you can use the plane for training / commercially anyway because the engine is on condition, so what's the advantage of staying with 24?

As I said Nev the flights don't match up with HBA-MEL. Newcastle may be easier but not if there's an extra 10 hours waiting for flights. Anyway it's all booked now so I'm not changing it.

Well, I'm all booked. They do, but unfortunately the flights from HBA-MEL don't match up. Flying into Sydney on Friday 27/3, hire car, staying at an Airbnb in Muswellbrook and flying back on Monday 30/3. Hope the weather is good! Massive Spitfire and Mustang lineup by the looks of it. If you're going, send me a PM and it'd be great to catch up!

27L V12 Nev? Let's build a Spitfire!

I think you may be mistaken, gold price is $200 for 2 days. Tickets – Warbirds Over Scone WWW.WARBIRDSOVERSCONE.COM.AU For me the $85 general admission for 2 days isn't bad, compared to the flights/accommodation/hire car etc needed to get there.

Hi all, Anyone going this year? Any recommendations re accommodation? Looking like Jetstar to Sydney, hire car and the nearest motel vacancy in Muswellbrook. It'd be great to meet any forum members who are flying in, and drool over your plane! Cheers, Marty