Warbird Information Exchange

Just surmising from the link within the 2nd link APG85 posted, the 11/1936 article of "Flight" magazine, titled "Lindbergh Buys British"...perhaps he was after the performance benefits of the supercharged Buccaneer. Also per the article, Phillips and Powis(Miles) were reported to be the recent license holders for all Menasco types in Britain.

PS, it's Gipsy with an "i".

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Right. I should know that seeing as the Tiger in Tiger Tim is a Moth...

-Tim

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Not sure where the restore to fly notion came from! I extensively photographed it during restoration and spoke at length to the restorers who were never working to anything other than a sympathetic and authentic restoration of an interesting machine.

As for her position in the RAF museum -my moving to the U.K she got restored in the right way and as such isnt a drain on the museum resources. The Milestones of Flight building can hardly be called that -its another building to keep aircraft dry thats all!

Can you post some of the pictures...

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Peter Amos' book IIRC. I certainly read somewhere that the original plan when it was first donated was to complete the restoration to fly and for Fopp to have it as a private runaround.

It seems that the new regime at the RAF Museum must have similar views on the Mohawk's relevance, as it is apparently destined for 'temporary storage' this week.

Well, that's a shame. It's a gorgeous plane (in my opinion) no matter who once owned it (the fact that Lindbergh owned it only adds to it's historical significance) and they did a beautiful restoration on it. If the RAF Museum doesn't want it, I'm sure there are a number of U.S. museums including the Smithsonian that would love to put it on display. The Smithsonian NASM has a fondness for anything Lindbergh and the Mowhawk would add nicely to the collection (wishful thinking)...

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I dropped into Hendon yesterday on my way past, and found that the Mohawk has indeed gone, along with the Lindbergh display and the DH60 Moth. They have been replaced with a full-scale model F-35!

So where did they go...storage? F-35? How does that fit in with their heritage/aircraft?

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