March 16 Mustang/Spitfire 1st Flights from Meiermotors

[Dan K]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtBCM0e ... e=youtu.be

[The Inspector]

Double sweet!!

[C VEICH]

I, and many others, have waited a long time to see MJ772 airborne again. As much as I miss the Champlin collection being right here in my back yard I would ten times rather see the Spitfire flying in Germany than parked in a museum here in the States. Just goes to show you that times change and even though an aiframe is static in a museum today does not mean that it always will be. There is hope!

[Pat Carry]

I, and many others, have waited a long time to see MJ772 airborne again. As much as I miss the Champlin collection being right here in my back yard I would ten times rather see the Spitfire flying in Germany than parked in a museum here in the States. Just goes to show you that times change and even though an aiframe is static in a museum today does not mean that it always will be. There is hope!

MJ772, is that the one formally on display in Oshkosh?

[Dan K]

MJ772, is that the one formally on display in Oshkosh?

That's the one, Pat.

[redvanner]

The owner of both ac is Air Fighter Academy based at Heringsdorf (Usedom). They are constantly enlarging their collection. they do have by now (only airworthy and frequently flown ac):

HA 1112 Buchon, Bücker Jungmann, NAA AT 6, Boeing Stearman, Polikarpov Po 2, Yakovlev Yak 9 UM, De Havilland D.H. 82 Tiger Moth and now Supermarine Spitfire T9 and NAA TF 51. (there would have been P 51 D (BBD) as well, if not crashed at Duxford last year)

I would say a quite impressive collection, especially regarding the short time since starting it. Well worth visiting if in the vicinity.

Overall good collection, but poor website (at least so far, lol).

Michael