72modeler Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Did any of you know about this one? Sure would be great to have a Beaufort in the air! Mike http://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-restorations/bristol-beaufort-restoration-report.html 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPuente54 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 News to me, thanks Mike, for bringing this to our attention. Perhaps some of the RAF/RAAF/RNZAF enthusiast will comment. It would be great to see it properly restored. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornet133 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Well known in OZ. They have been working on it for quite a few years... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinback Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 There is another Beaufort undergoing restoration in Australia. This to static display. Here are a few shots of the nose section on display at the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin, Victoria -next to their Beaufighter The cockpit looks immaculate 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted August 19, 2018 Author Share Posted August 19, 2018 If the rest of her looks this good, she's going to be a very impressive Beaufort! Thanks for posting the photos for the rest of us! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5054nz Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 (edited) The Moorabbin machine (which I've donated to) is the subject for my FROG kit, sadly on hiatus for about a year and a half. I'll one day get a Special Hobby to do '141. It's a very exciting project that I've been following since I was a child. Ralph Cusack has been at it for a while and it's all coming together now. Edited August 21, 2018 by k5054nz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 While we're playing Our un serialled cockpit section. It was constructed at the railway workshops at Chullora but never delivered. It was rediscovered in the 1960's and donated to the museum. Completely original and unsullied 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisTheBear Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Don't know about the Beauforts, but a couple of years ago I saw a Vought F4U under restoration in Mareeba. Whether it was being restored to flight or static condition, and whether it is still there I don't know. DennisTheBear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5054nz Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 On 8/21/2018 at 9:52 PM, DennisTheBear said: Don't know about the Beauforts, but a couple of years ago I saw a Vought F4U under restoration in Mareeba. From memory it was spearheaded by Mike Spalding (Spaulding?) and was to fly, their next project after the P-40N. I've not heard anything for a while either...Goodall has the following: F4U-1D Bu82640 War Memorial Museum of Virginia, Newport News VA49/85 (port wing cut off to facilitate display) Steve McClellan/ Confederate Air Force, Virginia Beach VA .85/98 Gerald Yagen/ Training Services Inc/ Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach VA .98/05 (stored Norfolk VA pending rest. to fly) Murray Griffiths/ Precision Aerospace Products, Wangaratta VIC .05/09 (shipped to Wangaratta VIC .06 for rest. to fly, still in blue USN scheme ex museum display) North Queensland Warbirds, Mareeba QLD .10/15 (rest. to fly at Mareeba 10/17, due to fly 2018) VH-NQW North Queensland Warbirds, Mareeba QLD 30.3.11/17 (sections of FG-1D Bu87833 savaged from Lake Washington c84 were at Wangaratta 06 as Parts for the rebuild of Bu82640) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinback Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) On 8/21/2018 at 7:52 PM, DennisTheBear said: Don't know about the Beauforts, but a couple of years ago I saw a Vought F4U under restoration in Mareeba. On 8/23/2018 at 1:52 PM, k5054nz said: From memory it was spearheaded by Mike Spalding (Spaulding?) and was to fly, their next project after the P-40N. Hi Dennis/k5054nz Was this it? This was taken at Mareeba in August 2016- Not sure of the progress made since then. Edited August 27, 2018 by Pinback Typo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 Isn't there an F4U-1 being restored as a birdcage Corsair somewhere in NZ, or am I mistaken? (Usually am!) Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5054nz Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 19 hours ago, 72modeler said: Isn't there an F4U-1 being restored as a birdcage Corsair somewhere in NZ, or am I mistaken? (Usually am!) Mike We had one - the only flying birdcage at that time - from 1991 to 1999, when it was sold to Brazil. Bob Jarrett's Classic Jets Fighter Museum (IIRC) in Adelaide is doing a static one that can't be more than a year from completion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinback Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 (edited) 36 minutes ago, k5054nz said: Bob Jarrett's Classic Jets Fighter Museum (IIRC) in Adelaide is doing a static one that can't be more than a year from completion. Yertiz in 2013 - Hope to get back sooner rather than later - This museum was well worth the visit The P 38 went to the UK I believe (and yes you could go up the step ladders!) Edited August 28, 2018 by Pinback Typo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 F4U progress https://www.facebook.com/ClassicJetsFighterMuseum/ http://www.classicjets.com/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Ed and Zac, Thank you so much for the update and photos on the birdcage F4U-1- she's a beauty! Brazil? She went to Brazil? Jeez, Louise! I know the colors and markings of choice on a restored aircraft are up to the owner/restoration crew, but I wish this one had been finished in FAA TSS colors. I did a 1/72 birdcage years ago using the Hasegawa kit, and did JT148, coded 5C (red codes, white outline) from No. 1835 Sq. Brunswick, Maine, and it was my favorite model! (If you have the old Kalmbach book on Building Scale Models by Roscoe Creed, you can see color photos of it.) I plan to do her again, but will use the Tamiya kit. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5054nz Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 The Kiwi-now-Brazilian Birdcage was painted in RNZAF colours for her stay here (I built her using the Tamiya 1/48 kit last year), she was repainted into USN markings in Brazil. She was in the TAM Museum which closed in January 2016. I'm not sure what happened to the collection. Anyway. Beaufort! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 The P-38H came to Bentwaters for a time. Richard Grace has relocated mostly to Sywell, and is there at present while work continues. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisTheBear Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 On 8/27/2018 at 8:36 PM, Pinback said: Hi Dennis/k5054nz Was this it? This was taken at Mareeba in August 2016- Not sure of the progress made since then. Might be worth a drive up there again to see if it is still there. It is about a 5 hour drive so I could take my daughter and make a (long) day of it, or maybe a weekend. DennisTheBear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 Dennis, I meant to thank you for sharing the restoration photos. The Corsair's main spar had to be the most massive one ever for a single-engine fighter! Built to last, that's for sure! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisTheBear Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 @Pinback, thanks for the photos! DennisTheBear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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