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Aero Legends’ Spitfire MJ444 Restoration – April Update

Vintage Aviation News

The front control column and aileron drum have been fitted. The aileron cables are in. MJ444’s front cockpit showing the Spitfire’s distinctive control column. We just have the brakes to set up and then the fuel tank firewall will be fitted, and in turn the tank.

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B-17 Liberty Belle Restoration – Don Brooks Interview

Vintage Aviation News

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. We had several other donor aircraft, but we have now completely rebuilt the forward fuselage with the exception of the top of the cockpit. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.

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