Warbird Information Exchange

That's because that's the type of windscreen appropriate for the F(ighter)B(omber) and T(rainer) models. The airworthy B.35 in Canada has the bomber windscreen, again appropriate for that model.

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"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
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Some great photos over on one of the UK forums, sure looks sharp!
https://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic ... e23a436150

Those really are some great photographs, and a beautiful aircraft!

And the B.IV DZ452 that Avspecs have the remains of for sale is also a glazed nose, non'flat windscreen version, which will be great to see done as well, if anyone buys it, especially as this saw WW2 use from bases in Scotland with 618 Sqn in 1944/5.
However, Peter Monk's public announcement that Avspec will be doing a FB.VI for them to operate in the UK, makes me think that they intend converted DZ into a solid nose FB version, which would be a shame, as the only potentially airworthy B.IV.
I assume DZ452 is the one destined for Biggin Hill, as I'm not aware of any other project/remains with an identity that it could be??

It's a bit more important than the only potentially airworthy B.IV. it is the only surviving B.IV.

No, Peter will be supplying the identity of the Biggin Hill project AFAIK.

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I spoke to several folks from Avspecs at Warbirds Over Wanaka this last weekend and Peter Monk's machine IS NOT DZ542 - she is on the market with Platinum and the airframe is well advanced (DZ542's fuselage can be glimpsed briefly in this TV current affairs piece about NZ2308: https://youtu.be/wiDab5_obYc?si=fTDNrxwkmTm3sRYB). The Monk aircraft is an actual FB.VI. The person I spoke to couldn't commit to saying anything about the ID but my personal belief is that it will be TE881/NZ2345, the other identity recovered from John Smith's (TE910/NZ2336) property.


We posted at the same time! Thank you for the clarification, Dave.

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"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
"The more time you spend around warbirds the sooner you learn nothing, is simple." - JohnB, 24/02/22

Reassembly has started at Chino. Nice work on the registration, DH98 MOSQUITO T43 Serial A52-1052 as N2308Z.

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I would love to see Steve Hinton's log books. Not only how many hours he has, but which different warbirds that he's had his hands on.

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Yea, I don't think there is anybody alive that has the breadth of experience in so many different warbirds that he has. I asked him those questions a while back (12 - 15 years ago?). At that time, I think he said he had 10,000 plus hrs in warbirds. He also told me that the only major warbirds that he hadn't flown up to that point were the Me-262 and Helldiver. Since then, I know that he got an Me-262 type rating in the 2 seater in preparation for testing Paul Allen's bird. So that would leave the Helldiver as the only major warbird he hadn't flown. He might have flown it since then, however. With 4 of them about to be airworthy in the near future, it wouldn't surprise me if he marked that one off the list as well.