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Speaker 1: This time at the Spitfire factory. It's December and after

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two years hard work, the Greek Spitfire is nearly complete.

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But will she fly? As one project finishes, another arrives,

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but not everyone's happy.

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Speaker 2: I'd like a new kitchen, but he's quite happy to

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keep the old kitchen another twenty years.

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Speaker 1: And veteran George Dunn returns to the hangar hoping to

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see his Spitfire fly.

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Speaker 3: You certainly had quite a war, George. You really did

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quite a war and you survive.

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Speaker 1: That was the main thing.

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Speaker 4: We were lucky.

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Speaker 5: Who aren't we.

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Speaker 1: It's been eighteen months since MJ seventy five to five

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returned to the UK from Greece to be restored to

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flying condition a Mark nine Spitfire that last flew for

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the Greek Air Force in nineteen fifty three. We've watched

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as they reassembled the fuselage, added the tail, the wings

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and the engine. They've restored and rebuilt almost seven thousand components,

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and with just four weeks left to go, they're at

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the snagging stage.

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Speaker 6: All these hearts are handmade, you know, and they are

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not done to a jig, so they all need final

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trimming and maybe there's slight angle adjustments so it all

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fits nicely. There's quite a lot of bods on it

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at the moment because we're getting to the sort of

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like the final stages of getting it.

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Speaker 1: Sort of finished.

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Speaker 6: You just look at it and you think, oh, there's

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still so much to do.

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Speaker 1: Panel specialist Mark is working on the four metal cowlings

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that wrap around the engine, some of which he's having

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to replace.

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Speaker 7: Even though it came off with Greek aircraft. We've beamed

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it not fit for flight. It's too short down here

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around this area for some reason. But it looks like

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it's had different rivets in which aren't the right specification

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of its These holes here are all over size and large.

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Speaker 8: They should be.

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Speaker 7: There should be more this size for the fasteness.

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Speaker 3: To go in.

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Speaker 1: He's saving original sections whenever he can.

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Speaker 7: This will fit to the underside of the Greek aircraft.

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Speaker 9: There we had to.

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Speaker 7: Make a new new bottom cow, new intake. This has

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all been replicated and wow, as it would have been

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done originally with ox Stelen and that this is the

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new part grafted to an old original bottom.

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Speaker 1: Cown eighty years ago in the original Spitfire factories. Even

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in the height of conflict. Every finished part was given

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a stamp of approval.

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Speaker 7: This is the original top cowling off the Greek Greek

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hair bar. That is the original inspection stamp. You could

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trace that right back in the data who held that

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stamp and who inspected this panel when it come off.

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Speaker 5: The production line.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Gary is working on a part that is giving

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the boss a serious last minute headache. One of the

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radiator fairings.

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Speaker 4: The other one we've sorted.

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Speaker 8: We've got the original, it's been overhaored and it fits nicely,

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so that's completed. This one today is standing here.

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Speaker 4: We seem to have nothing.

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Speaker 9: Ur J.

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Speaker 1: Mitchell's original design included an ingenious cooling system for the

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Spitfire's Merlin engine. He moved the radiators out of the

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wings and covered them with aerodynamically shaped fairings with controllable

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flaps to regulate airflow to the radiators and the temperature

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of the coolant circulating back to the engine. As part

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of the aerodynamic design. They have to fit perfectly. But

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one of the Greek spitfires radiator fairings needs major repairs.

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Speaker 8: The options are, yes, we do repair the old one,

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saving only seventy five percent of it.

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Speaker 5: That's going to take us time.

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Speaker 8: We're going to gain a week by using a new one,

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We're going to lose money. But time is of the

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essence when it's a quicker solution and one that we

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need to take up to get the Serah plane out

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the door on time.

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Speaker 1: Peter's already ordered a new fairing, but there may be

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a third option stashed away in his storeroom. End to here,

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at your peril.

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Speaker 8: I spent days up here tidy in the place up.

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Speaker 5: Look at it.

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Speaker 8: The trouble is it when I tidy it up, it

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looks bloody worse.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to list this in.

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Speaker 1: There out of the weight cataloging systems Peter's memory.

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Speaker 8: There's a whole massive panels here, which I've had for

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donkeys' years. In fact, that's a bit of the radiator

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firing there. That's the actual flap itself. Here is the fairing.

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Of course, he hasn't been moved out of here in

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a what could be a chance, I can see that

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it's completely original.

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Speaker 1: Sounds promising.

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Speaker 8: There's a death left in the right hand to it,

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and this is the wrong hand.

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Speaker 1: Back to square one.

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Speaker 8: I'm going to make a decision on this fairing and

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make it today.

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Speaker 5: Really, he just.

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Speaker 1: Can't give up on that damaged original.

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Speaker 8: It's had some temporary repairs here. The airplane was in

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a museum exhibit for some years, in fact decades, so

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it didn't need airworthy repairs, just cosmetic, which is what's

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happened here. So we'd have to remove this, so an

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issue there. I've noticed that there's some very light corrosion

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on the inside, which is what appears to be done,

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isn't it's aluminium oxide, so corrosion. That's treatable bit of work.

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But I think we're in good chance for saving.

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Speaker 1: This decision made.

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Speaker 8: Unfortunately, I'd already ordered the new one, so I've got

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nine thousand quid to find.

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Speaker 5: But we'll use that on.

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Speaker 8: Something else and the original one will go back on

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to perfect.

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Speaker 1: Peter will always go the extra mile to save an

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original part. In the cockpit, Tony is putting the final

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touches to the electrical system.

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Speaker 10: When people visit the hangar, they say, oh, you are

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so lucky. You've got a fantastic job. And this is

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the bit they don't see when you're wedged in some

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particularly uncomfortable position trying to do up a screw or

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something else. My job is basically to rewire the entire aeroplane.

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We're ninety five percent of the way through that now,

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and in the next day or so I'll have power

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on the aeroplane.

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Speaker 1: Franco is left to do all the really fiddly bits.

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undercarriage cables. Right it's going to see if they'll fit.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 6: I estimated the gap and it's not quite enough, and

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the cables are still touching, so I'm going to have

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to take them off, make them more and.

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Speaker 1: Do it all over again. The Greek spit by us

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combination of original and replacement parts is almost perfect. But

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there's one part Peter's been wanting for years.

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Speaker 5: The spitfire is British.

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Speaker 8: We want to propeller on there.

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Speaker 1: There hasn't been a British made spitfire propeller since the

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nineteen fifties, but here at Hercules Propellers, Rupert Waysey is

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working very hard to change that. He uses a combination

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of authentic designs and materials with modern machinery to create

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propellers from all eras.

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Speaker 11: Traditionally, propellers were made using hand tools, which is very

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time consuming.

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Speaker 4: We use a computer controlled machine.

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Speaker 11: Which will mil the propeller from our laminated block of wood,

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and it's much quicker and much more precise. This is

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the software which controls the machine and the tool is

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this mark here, and this shows the paths the tool

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is going to make over the block as it machines

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the wood away to leave a aircraft propeller.

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Speaker 1: If he doesn't have the blueprints, Rupert can sometimes replicate

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original propellers from his collection.

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Speaker 11: This is about the oldest propeller we have, which we've

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got here for copying, and this is off a Blowrio

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aeroplane from France, madely about nineteen ten.

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Speaker 1: When Rupert was asked to make an authentic wooden spitfire propeller,

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it's complexity meant he needed detailed original drawings to work from,

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and that when fate stepped in.

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Speaker 11: I got a phone call from a company about ten

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miles from here, and they were refurbishing their offices and

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found a whole chest full of original propeller drawings, and

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they googled found me, and I raced over there and

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found this amazing treasure trove of original spitfire propeller drawings.

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This was the original pen and ink drawing on linen paper.

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It was drawn on the twelfth of March nineteen forty two.

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We've got various dimensions of the blade width and the

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thickness of all the aerofoil shapes along the way. Importantly,

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it tells us what the material the propeller was made

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out of, and it tells us the density of the wood,

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which is very important.

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Speaker 1: In another stroke of luck, Rupert discovered that the extremely

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rare material they used still exists today.

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Speaker 11: This is called the hydlignum. It's basically made out very

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fine veneers of beach less than one millimeter thick, coated

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in a phonolic resin and compressed to make a very dense,

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extremely strong composite. So where we have carbon, fiber and fiberglass, now,

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this was the equivalent of the time. So these days

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it's used for electrical insulators, and interestingly it's on the

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belly pan of most Formula one racing cars, so when

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they bottom out on the racetrack it doesn't cause sparks.

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Speaker 1: The spitfast propeller needs this strong material because of the

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immense forces it generates. Four separate blades attached to a

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central hub with variable pitch to increase and decrease thrust

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at full power. Phenomenal strength is required to simply keep

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the blades attached. After four years work. This is Rupert's prototype.

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Speaker 11: If a blade detaches and comes away from the hub

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in flight, it will be catastrophic. The engine will be

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sort out of balance, that will be shaken out of

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the airframe, and the aircraft will crash.

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Speaker 1: So Rupert has been stress testing his blades to breaking point.

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Speaker 11: We calculated that the force throwing the blade away from

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the hub when it's running at maximum speed is about

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thirty tons, which is a huge force just for this

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section of wood to take. But we've carried out extensive

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tests and actually pulled a mock blade until it broke,

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and actually broke at eighty tons, so we know it's

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more than twice a strong enough.

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Speaker 1: As the final touch the composite blade, it's are sealed

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with a thick coat of impact absorbing epoxy.

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Speaker 11: I feel immensely proud of this. It's been a huge project.

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and seeing it all together being tangible and ready to

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go is a wonderful moment. I'm really ready to Now,

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I want to see it fly, I want see it run.

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It's going to be really exciting to see it take off.

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Speaker 1: At the Spitfire factory, they're about to put the propeller

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on the Greek Spitfire. The new British propeller isn't certified yet,

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so they have to use a German made one. But

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Franco is still pretty excited.

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Speaker 5: Very big moment.

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Speaker 6: Here's what makes it go forward.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it really about the fan on the front.

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Speaker 9: You don't go anywhere here.

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Speaker 1: It's a job they only want to do once.

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Speaker 6: Once it props on, unless we have a problem. You

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don't like to take it off again. So we just

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make sure that Felt embraces that everything's done.

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Speaker 10: It's ready to go.

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Speaker 1: The original little hub has been restored with new blades added.

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Speaker 6: It's a bit like I'm wrapping a present, really anything is.

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It's quite an expensive present, one hundred and fifty pounds there.

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Speaker 1: Now, first they need to attach a backplate.

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Speaker 6: Why do you get the bat play on? You can

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do it, but you can't do it for right up

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Speaker 1: The hub should now fit directly onto the protruding propeller shaft.

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Speaker 9: Ekosa push so done.

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Speaker 1: It takes a delicate touch to get it on and

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then a bit of brute force to lock it in place.

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Speaker 5: My coat.

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Speaker 1: It's a good day for the boss.

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Speaker 8: It's another leap forward and actually convinced the owners that

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were actually getting somewhere.

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Speaker 5: That's the biggest thing for me, and.

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Speaker 1: For very different reasons. It's also a good day for

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his eldest son. Two years ago, Alex Mounk decided to

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follow in his father's footsteps and join the restoration team.

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But he doesn't just want to build spitfires. His dream

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is to fly them, and here at Biggin Hill he

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has the chance to follow in the footsteps of the

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young men who learned to fly them in the heat

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of war.

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Speaker 12: Wartime pilots would have had many hours. The only difference

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between them and me is that that was what they

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were doing. They would fly a lot regularly. I don't

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get to fly that regularly because I'm working on the airplanes.

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Speaker 1: Most aref pilots started their training in biplanes like the

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de Havelan Tiger Moth, top speed one hundred and nine

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miles an hour and pretty easy to fly. The next

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step before getting in a spitfire was one of these

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a North American Aviation T six Harvard, nicknamed the pilot Maker,

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and fortunately for Alex, there's one available to use here

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at the Spitfire Factory, with the top speed of over

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two hundred miles an hour. It has many of the

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features of a Spitfire, including adjustable wing flaps, a variable

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pitch propeller, and a retractable undercarriage.

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Speaker 12: They call it the pilot Maker because it's quite a

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good aircraft. Got a lot of tendencies in it. If

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you can overcome those, it puts you in good stead

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for flying the next aircraft up from that.

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Speaker 8: It's just getting used to wear the other carriage is

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that's yeah.

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Speaker 4: And once he suddenly.

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Speaker 1: Jess Bridger, one of the regular pilots here, has agreed

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to train Alex.

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Speaker 12: I think I know where I'm going wrong with this,

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with what caught flying in the Harvard all the rest

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of it go on.

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Speaker 13: I need a bigger watch. Has got a bigger watch.

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You need a bigger watch. You want a bigger to watch,

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the better the landing. He is exactly a training pilot

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of back in the day in the nineteen forties.

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Speaker 8: He's a young man, he's just turned twenty one, and

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he's loving it.

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Speaker 13: He's getting to play with amazing aeroplanes and this is

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his first experience in a big Harvard, so it's a

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big transition from his piper Cup to going into the Harvard.

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Speaker 1: But Alex is not off to a great start.

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Speaker 13: I'm just going to go tell Alex Brix flaptop.

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Speaker 8: He's forgotten so he started up and left from hanging

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down at the moment.

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Speaker 13: He's put the flap down for the walk around check

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and you've forgotten to put them back up again, which

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is quite normal.

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Speaker 12: And I've done it.

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Speaker 13: We've all done it, and you just feel like a

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bit of a tick when you realize that you haven't

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done something.

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Speaker 5: Everyone's watching it.

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Speaker 1: One of the toughest challenges for any aircraft is take

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offs and landings, which is what Alex will be focusing

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on today.

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Speaker 12: What bak off a piece of this for Alivia is

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doing right. So al right, it goes off in a

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straight line and keep it straight. It's the main thing.

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Speaker 14: Kimasabling Squeeve's gear is going up and they're up.

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Speaker 1: Alex is flying the plane, but Jess is keeping his

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hands and feet firmly on the dual controls.

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Speaker 2: So you've got a power back to twenty eight years.

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Speaker 7: Call the propbacks about two thousand and my name is

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plain Yeah, very good.

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Speaker 1: Okay, where we go?

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Speaker 2: Then the right on my head off all seven eight.

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Speaker 1: After a couple of circuits, Alex will start practicing landings.

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He'll need to be fully focused. The Harvard can be

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extremely dangerous. During the war, around eight thousand RF pilots

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and aircrew were killed in training, many while attempting to land.

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Alex is going to practice a type of landing called

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a touch and go. He has to learn to take

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the power off at exactly the right moment and then

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pull away.

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Speaker 8: We just keep it coming down.

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Speaker 2: You're a.

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Speaker 1: Powering off.

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Speaker 5: He's down, glad to comeing. Okata, I want to go again?

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Speaker 9: Yep and clatter are up? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: He's up again.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going on.

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Speaker 8: It's fine.

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Speaker 1: So I guess that one was just a little witch

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too much of a flair, wasn't it.

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Speaker 9: Just hold it up a little bit high and it bounds.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, wat round you go.

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Speaker 1: Next time round he'll land it for real. During the

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Battle of Britain, the demand for pilots got so high

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that many had just a few hours of training before

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going solo in a spitfire to get.

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Speaker 5: On the center line. I can conferve your gears down.

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Speaker 4: You have green lives.

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Speaker 5: You just got to rome around.

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Speaker 1: Alex will probably need at least fifty before Dad lets

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him fly one of his spitfires.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, beauty's great.

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Speaker 1: You don't want anything to stupid straight. He's nailed it.

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Speaker 2: Very nice, Alex, very nice, well done.

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Speaker 7: Identify the leaver with you, ad make sure it is

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the Flat're not gonna pull the gear up?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, put the flaps up, all right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're traveling.

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Speaker 3: Is very good.

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Speaker 8: That's it.

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Speaker 5: Never again, never been to.

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Speaker 1: Stand it all my life.

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Speaker 4: You did a great job.

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Speaker 6: Oh thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Alex is a step closer to achieving his dream, but

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now he needs to get back to work. The deadline

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for the Greek spitfire is looming. But today there's a

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bit of a spanner in the works because they need

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to get the plane ready to be weighed as part

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of its safety registration.

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Speaker 8: We're just putting all the panels on the airpap because

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it's going to be weighed. It's always quite interesting because

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we have to get a tear it up to get

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it in the FLI.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be several hours work for a twenty

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minute weighing.

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Speaker 12: We are slaving all the bits and pieces that aren't

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fitted finally on the aircraft. Well though it's also semi

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frustrating to it all come on and then we've got

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to take it all off again.

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Speaker 1: Afterwards, Franco needs to add some lead weights to the

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tail of the aircraft to balance the way to the

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engine at the front.

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Speaker 6: No one in there.

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Speaker 1: Time for a game of guess the weight.

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Speaker 6: I reckon. We'll weigh about three thousand, three and a

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half thousand kilos. I'm making it up. I don't know

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how much do you ottening?

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Speaker 9: Get Alex out a quarter under that?

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Speaker 5: Oh he wants to go a quarter under me.

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Speaker 12: I'm going to quarter under just because we ain't got

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wings tips.

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Speaker 5: We'll just go with that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So there a solid lead that is, it's heavy.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to drop it.

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Speaker 5: On your foot.

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Speaker 1: The important parameter for a spitfire is not its overall weight,

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but the balance. The center of gravity needs to be

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close to frame five, where the engine, fuselage and wings meet,

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and it can't move more than a few centimeters as

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the fuel or ammunition load lights during the flight.

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Speaker 6: I was looking for the weighing guy they're bringing the kitten.

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Tom had Tom. It's Franco, the chief engineer. The guys's

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just got a couple more panels to go on and

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then we'll just have a sweep of the floor and

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then we'll get it all ready for you to start.

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Speaker 1: To get accurate readings. Everything has to be just as

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it would be during a flight.

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Speaker 5: He betting the door on a nice one.

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Speaker 1: Get almost ready.

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Speaker 15: With vintage aircraft, especially when be built, they can be

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quite out if they've had extra fuel tanks and it's

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just put in them. With this one, I'm not expecting

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anything to outrageous.

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Speaker 1: First, it's weighed with all three wheels on the ground.

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Speaker 11: Are we on them?

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Speaker 9: Okay?

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Speaker 6: I got two six two six and the back should

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be three eight something. Now he's weighed it as a

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free point. We're now going to lift the tail up

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position the scales on the tailwheel and put it down

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whilst it's in the flying position.

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Speaker 1: Go The overall weight shouldn't change, but the amount of

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weight on each wheel will go on in they're lifting

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about one hundred and fifty kilos right now. No hurry, Tom,

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I'm on our height.

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Speaker 6: There we go. That was effing heavy. That was I

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think that was about three tons too heavy. That means

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now he can do another calculation of all the weights,

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add them all together to get the actual total weight

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at the aircraft.

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Speaker 9: Was that five six'? Ten divide that by two point?

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Speaker 5: Two is that?

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Speaker 3: All it?

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Speaker 5: Is five hundred and fifty? Kilos what DID i? SAY

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i don't?

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Speaker 9: Know what did you?

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Speaker 5: Say did? You?

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Speaker 9: So you're the?

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Speaker 5: Nearest?

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Speaker 6: Right you make the?

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Speaker 12: Tea?

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Speaker 8: Oh, Join now he's just dropping plumbboards.

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Speaker 6: And then you'll see that he'd be being chalk lines

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across the floor to work out the scent of.

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Speaker 1: Gravity tom uses the plumb lines to calculate the exact

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dimensions of the.

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Speaker 15: Plane so the aircraft weighs five six hundred and ten,

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pounds which is pretty much what we. Expected and the

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center of, gravity, ever is a slightly burned forward than i'd.

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Expect sommion netflix and ballast in the.

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Speaker 4: Back just to bring that.

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Speaker 1: Back now it's time to undo all the morning's hard.

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Work it might feel like a day's work, lost but

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they're a big rubber stamp closer to getting her ready to. Fly,

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meanwhile team Historian robin is heading off to visit the

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Last british pilot to fly, her ninety seven year Old.

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Speaker 5: George.

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Speaker 3: Done once these gentlemen have, gone is their memories are not,

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recorded then it is lost.

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Speaker 1: Forever before he flew, Spitfires george was a bomber.

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Speaker 3: Pilot, Now, george who were these?

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Speaker 1: Guys that was my? Crew your?

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Speaker 3: Crew they're all dead, now are they? Really you had

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a good crew, there you really.

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Speaker 1: Did of the dozens of operations That george, flew one

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of the most important and dangerous came on the seventeenth

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Of august nineteen forty. Three we were told that.

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Speaker 14: It was a research, station radar connected and was a

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very important target from the country's point of.

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Speaker 1: View the target was a military research facility WHERE v

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one flying boars AND v two rockets were being developed

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deep Inside germany on The baltic coast At. Pinamunda THE

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v too fell without.

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Speaker 14: Warning we had a speed of thirty three hundred miles

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per hour and it could not be intercepted by fighter.

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Speaker 1: Aircraft or brought down by ana aircraft.

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Speaker 14: Artillery we were told in the brief in if we

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didn't do the job that, night we go back the following,

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night and the night after and the night after until

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it Was.

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Speaker 1: George's halifax was one of five hundred and ninety six

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bombers that took part that. Night he was fortunate to

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be one of the first de floying with the element of.

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Speaker 14: Spruance they decided that the raid was going to be

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carried out in three. Waves we were originally going to

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go in the last, wave the third, wave but they

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moved us from the third wave to the. First, now of,

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course as you, know all the losses were from halfway,

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through so we had a fairly easy. Run we had

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a bit of, flak but no fighters or, anything so

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we got able to bomb and get away and get

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back on our. Return whereas the people in this halfway

478
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through the second and the third waves really copped. It

479
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,000
so again.

480
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 3: This is where that came Into it absolutely.

481
00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 14: Hadn't if we'd have been in the third, way, yes you,

482
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,400
PROBABLY i might not have been talking to you.

483
00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: Now george still has his log book from that.

484
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:13,599
Speaker 14: Day the following day they did a spitfire record and

485
00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:20,839
saw saw the photographs that came back and decided that

486
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:22,400
it had been a.

487
00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: Success it's thought the bombing raids put back THE v

488
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,359
two rocket program by a Vital two months after the,

489
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,400
War george was posted To egypt for a very different.

490
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,839
Speaker 14: Assignment suddenly found myself sent to one three to two

491
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:43,319
maintenance here and it is my lear right and reported

492
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:48,079
to the flight. OFFICER i, Said i've finished up. HERE

493
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,400
i don't know What i'm doing. HERE i, said, well

494
00:26:51,079 --> 00:26:53,640
what do you what do you? Do he, said, oh

495
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,559
we fly speitfires here finally for a lot of them

496
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:03,039
going for sal To Greek greek. Airports SO i, said,

497
00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:06,920
WELL i haven't flown a single engine aircraft since My Tiger.

498
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,279
Speaker 8: Mathos, YEAH i, said.

499
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:09,559
Speaker 4: You'll be all.

500
00:27:09,599 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 14: Right shut me a set of pilot's. Notes, yeah he,

501
00:27:13,319 --> 00:27:15,119
SAID i have a read of that and you'll be.

502
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,559
Okay see, here.

503
00:27:16,519 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 3: Is that as easy as that?

504
00:27:18,079 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: One?

505
00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 3: So how many did you actually?

506
00:27:20,519 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 8: Ferry in?

507
00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 14: ALL i did two, trips, Right we flew ten at a,

508
00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:31,920
time refilled At nicosia In, Cyprus lancaster did the navigation, right,

509
00:27:32,079 --> 00:27:35,079
yes and then we all came back in the.

510
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:35,599
Speaker 1: Lancash.

511
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,279
Speaker 3: Yeah you certainly had quite a, War. George you really

512
00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:40,920
did kind of war and you survived the.

513
00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 14: Thing we were, lucky weren't? We you?

514
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,039
Speaker 5: Know, yes.

515
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: Yes robin Leaves george with an invitation to come and

516
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,960
see His greek spitfire again when it's ready to. Fly

517
00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:52,519
my friend.

518
00:27:55,039 --> 00:27:55,519
Speaker 5: Back at the.

519
00:27:55,559 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: HANGAR a Dry december day is an opportunity for a

520
00:27:59,200 --> 00:27:59,720
big leap.

521
00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:04,279
Speaker 8: Four hopefully we can get the aircraft to a state

522
00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:06,599
where we can run. It the engine's already been. Checked

523
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,519
we've got to check the function of the propeller and

524
00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:13,000
make sure that it's harmonized with the. Engine and we've

525
00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:15,319
got the pipework to look. At there's lots of, joints

526
00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:18,480
lots of, connections and we need to make sure that

527
00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:19,559
none of those.

528
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: Leak but they've been having some problems with the fuel.

529
00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:25,400
Tanks pill kock leak on the bottom.

530
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 6: Tank hey, ho never.

531
00:28:28,319 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: Mind finally they get the main fuel tanks.

532
00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:37,559
Speaker 8: Installed daylight is an issue for us today got about

533
00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:40,839
an hour and a half before it gets. Start this

534
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,799
is a frustrating. TIME i don't want to have to

535
00:28:42,799 --> 00:28:45,680
go back to the owners and say that things are

536
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,480
taking longer than they should do and ask for more,

537
00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:49,759
money because that's not how we.

538
00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:50,599
Speaker 4: Work we never.

539
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 8: Have so each day that it goes on now becomes

540
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,240
a little bit more of a worry and a few

541
00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:59,759
less minutes sleep at. Night so, yeah we need to

542
00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:00,039
get it.

543
00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: Done The yale rons are going, on but the light

544
00:29:04,319 --> 00:29:04,799
is fading.

545
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,559
Speaker 8: Fast we're not outside in probably twenty minutes we'll be

546
00:29:08,599 --> 00:29:12,079
in it because we won't have we won't have sufficient daylight.

547
00:29:12,039 --> 00:29:13,599
Speaker 5: And we want to be able to see.

548
00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:15,519
Speaker 8: That all we's got. Leaks we don't be running out

549
00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:16,279
and the artificial.

550
00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:16,759
Speaker 4: Light there's no.

551
00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: Points time has run.

552
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,759
Speaker 5: Out is a down up and meat AND.

553
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 8: I can't put pressure on the GUYS i dent because

554
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,680
it's not the right thing to. Do so we still

555
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,119
need a job done. Properly so it is what it.

556
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,200
Is get the events with.

557
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:34,079
Speaker 2: Well we do what we.

558
00:29:34,119 --> 00:29:37,759
Speaker 5: Do he's failed. Today the boss hasn't. Failed we failed the.

559
00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:42,599
Speaker 8: BOSS i feel very shut.

560
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:51,799
Speaker 1: It but it's not all bad news Because Peter's christmas

561
00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:54,599
present to himself has. Arrived oh it's.

562
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 8: Brilliant apart from being in the middle of winter and

563
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,519
freezing cold as a something just a hear us all.

564
00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:03,880
Up we've got another spitfire, arrived another two, seater so

565
00:30:04,599 --> 00:30:06,920
that gives us quite a number action to. Hang an exciting,

566
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,839
moment very exciting, moment.

567
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: Quite a big dent in the. Bank balance though.

568
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 8: Sometimes it's excitement is sometimes it's waking up at three

569
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,319
o'clock in the morning, thinking what the bloody hell AM i?

570
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 4: Doing more?

571
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 5: Bits we'll just keep going.

572
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: Sill it's a nineteen forty Five mark nine two, seater

573
00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:28,920
complete with ready to fly burn an.

574
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 8: Engine the engines of their overhauled In england are generally,

575
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,319
black so to see one.

576
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,599
Speaker 5: Gray, yeah it looks quite, different.

577
00:30:38,039 --> 00:30:41,359
Speaker 1: Shiny and. Beautiful but the handle.

578
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,279
Speaker 8: With, Care, no, no, no, no no. Doubt we're not

579
00:30:44,319 --> 00:30:46,440
going to drag the. Engine it's too close to the. Side,

580
00:30:46,759 --> 00:30:49,920
look if that touches the side, once that could just

581
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:50,720
destroy that.

582
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 9: Kep.

583
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,599
Speaker 8: Coming he's not going to do. Anything it's going to

584
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:56,759
go straight out and put it.

585
00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:58,279
Speaker 5: Down we'll do.

586
00:30:58,359 --> 00:31:01,559
Speaker 8: It that's, it that's. Fine we're going to put it

587
00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:02,599
over there beside that.

588
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: Wing now for the, Fuselage oh the. Joy If i'm

589
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,079
wrapping a new, toy fantastic another aeroplanes are put, together.

590
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 9: Are we?

591
00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 5: In that would?

592
00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:15,559
Speaker 4: Do?

593
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,799
Speaker 1: Then peter's a happy.

594
00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 8: Man oh looks to a good. Standard but this makes me.

595
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,319
Laugh something he's actually written on, Here well he actually

596
00:31:24,319 --> 00:31:24,559
what it?

597
00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:26,119
Speaker 5: IS i don't know.

598
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: Why there's just one small. Problem he hasn't told the.

599
00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:34,319
Speaker 8: Wife there might be one or two discussions With linda

600
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,400
later as to how much it costs and so, on

601
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,640
but we'll worry about that bit.

602
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: Later uh, oh look who's?

603
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 5: Here?

604
00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 9: Good look like by?

605
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 8: It, no there's another one.

606
00:31:51,079 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: Time for the third degree fly laugh a.

607
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,359
Speaker 5: Few years, ago ten, years ten years.

608
00:31:56,359 --> 00:31:59,079
Speaker 2: Ago so how long do you think this is going

609
00:31:59,160 --> 00:31:59,960
to take before it's up a.

610
00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:01,519
Speaker 5: Running i'm allowing six.

611
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 8: Months it won't take six, months But i'm allowing six.

612
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,559
Speaker 4: Months. Fly next thing is in.

613
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: There oh, yeah it's not really What linda wants For.

614
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: Christmas i'd like a new, kitchen But pete's quite happy

615
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,759
to keep the old kitchen another twenty.

616
00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 8: Years, okay so when was It?

617
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,079
Speaker 5: Phil and then?

618
00:32:18,119 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 8: When early ninety forty? Five but it did take part

619
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,359
in The battle Of britain Film peter seems to be.

620
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,599
Speaker 1: Winning so you've.

621
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 2: Got a give and, take haven't you And peter given the?

622
00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:34,079
Speaker 8: Kitchen maybe? Not now that it's, here that subject will

623
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:35,000
come up over dinner.

624
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 4: Tonight is all?

625
00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 8: Right how much did it? Cost when only two days

626
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,799
AGO i suggested that a figure that we could spend

627
00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:45,559
on the, kitchen which is fifteen years old at, home

628
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,960
so and the doors are starting to fall off, anyway

629
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,119
who's worried about doors falling? Off the off the kitchen.

630
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,440
Units when you can have a, spitfire.

631
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:01,119
Speaker 1: You can never have too many. Spitfires after days of

632
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,599
setbacks and, snagging The greek spitfire restoration team has one

633
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,519
last chance of getting a running Before christmas.

634
00:33:08,599 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 6: Day hopefully engine running.

635
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 5: Day we said this last.

636
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: And you Last friday Or, thursday Last. Wednesday since then

637
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,559
they've had to completely take apart the fuel, tank reseal

638
00:33:20,599 --> 00:33:22,400
it and put it back together.

639
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 6: Fingers, crossed no fuel, leaps and then we'll tie it

640
00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:26,480
down and do some runs at.

641
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 8: Nice to get it done now a couple of days Before,

642
00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:31,720
christmas a wegn all break, away go home and enjoy

643
00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:32,079
a bit of.

644
00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 6: Turkey got to do it, today otherwise we look like

645
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:36,119
a bunch of.

646
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: Idiots with the light starting to, fade they're ready to

647
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,799
push her out and fuel her up At leafs. Right,

648
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,480
yeah the tail is secured to the tarmac and the

649
00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:50,480
fuel system checked for.

650
00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 5: Leaks, no no.

651
00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 8: Leaks, NO i am just going to get some precautionary

652
00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:57,640
fire extinguishers and, yeah we're.

653
00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: Ready to give it a go as a qualified. Pilot

654
00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:04,440
peter's doing the honors in the, cockpit but the temperature is.

655
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,079
Speaker 8: Plummeting you're going to put the cover on underneath it

656
00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:09,159
a bloody draft and have come roll up my, trouser

657
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:09,760
leg around my.

658
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,039
Speaker 1: Nuts it's now or never.

659
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 5: A bit?

660
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,639
Speaker 8: Slow is this three eight two's battery by any?

661
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 5: Chance what we always do is just.

662
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,159
Speaker 8: Run it's just for a few, seconds and we need

663
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:46,280
to check to make sure that we've got no air

664
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:47,119
locks in the coolant.

665
00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:54,119
Speaker 1: System the coolant is topped up and they're ready for a.

666
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:55,639
Second go, Clear.

667
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 8: Barger i'm struggling at the minute to keep the engine.

668
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,519
Running just quite likely that the idling system is running

669
00:35:07,519 --> 00:35:07,719
a bit.

670
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 12: Lean it's not getting enough fuel to air, ratio which

671
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,119
we call lean. Mixture so thanks richening that up with

672
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:15,960
the mixture.

673
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,079
Speaker 4: Scroup so we'll give it another. Bash, now have you done?

674
00:35:18,119 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 9: It?

675
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 5: Okay clear, clere.

676
00:35:31,599 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 1: That's more like. It the engineers crawl underneath to check for.

677
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 8: Leaks, Right i'm happy with that for a first, run.

678
00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: Job done and a big sigh of relief all round

679
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,719
and satisfying.

680
00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 8: It that's what it's supposed.

681
00:35:54,599 --> 00:35:57,079
Speaker 6: To got to another, milestone so then we can move.

682
00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:00,400
On alex is being silly as, normal but you can't get.

683
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: That it's the Perfect christmas present for everyone on the.

684
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,519
Team but Come New, year will she?

685
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 5: Fly? Now do you stop? There it's the.

686
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: Big day and the engineers are polishing up SPITFIRE mj

687
00:36:24,199 --> 00:36:24,760
seventy five.

688
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,119
Speaker 16: FIVE i could go into A priori dealership them that's

689
00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:31,480
out for you and it's all, polished so why shouldn't

690
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,079
you do the same for a.

691
00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 6: Spitfire here we are just going around getting all the

692
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,000
grubby engineer's hands, off, lips finger.

693
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: Marks alex is getting a bit emotional.

694
00:36:41,519 --> 00:36:44,599
Speaker 12: With some pinnacle of the last sort of year and

695
00:36:44,639 --> 00:36:47,320
a half of my. LIFE i guess it's all accommodated

696
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,599
into this, here so be nice and it.

697
00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: WORKS i lag the death end each ye makes it more,

698
00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:56,000
unique it, does adding a little extra. Pressure the money

699
00:36:56,039 --> 00:36:57,159
men have flown in From.

700
00:36:57,199 --> 00:37:00,280
Speaker 8: Greece it's the most original spitfire that we've ever had

701
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,880
in the, hangar and it's the, only probably one the

702
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,440
most original would ever. Have they haven't seen, IT i

703
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,079
think for nearly a, year and the last time they

704
00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:10,639
came through it was just in bits all over the. Floor,

705
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:13,880
no we need to fly some hours on.

706
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,679
Speaker 5: It how many?

707
00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:15,119
Speaker 9: Hours?

708
00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 8: Twenty and if we, can we need your.

709
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 5: Permission it's your.

710
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 8: Aeroplane, okay we can't just fly the.

711
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 5: Aeroplane, no you can't say.

712
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,119
Speaker 8: That, no we've done as much as we can to

713
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:31,800
make sure that we've mitigated all the possible risks and

714
00:37:32,679 --> 00:37:35,440
it's ready to. Go but, yeah slightly.

715
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 4: Nervous.

716
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: George done has arrived.

717
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Speaker 5: AND i understand you're flying.

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00:37:44,639 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 12: It it's very rare that you get to rebuild an

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airplane and actually still meet the pilot of the.

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Speaker 4: Aircraft how you.

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00:37:51,599 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 9: Doing he've done a sully good.

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00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: Job The greeks are keen to Meet.

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00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,199
Speaker 8: George he knows the way and he perhaps he should

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00:37:58,199 --> 00:37:58,920
fly it To greece.

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00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: Again, Yes i've got next veteran pilot meets modern day spitfire.

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00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,400
PILOT i know that you're going to take it back.

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Speaker 14: Degree this is a.

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Speaker 8: Plan, yeah, yeah setting off in more ten. Minutes it's

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a tremendous responsibility for me to be standing out there

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watching this scene.

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Speaker 1: Takeoff it's a Perfect january day for. Flying.

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00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 8: George did you want to go up in the air?

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Speaker 9: Van? Oh, yeah that big black and you want to do.

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Speaker 8: That, yeah big, day very big.

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Speaker 5: Day finally she gets here up on.

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Speaker 1: Again it could be great to see, it can't. Wait

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it's it's a group effort for. Efer Peter kinsey is

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an experienced test, pilot but flying in newly restored veteran

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00:38:56,519 --> 00:38:59,199
aircraft for the first. Time it's not for the faint.

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00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:23,840
Hearted alex is on ground crew duty. Today there seems

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to be a, problem, fortunately just a seat belt.

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Speaker 12: ISSUE mj seventy five five o'cake two.

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Speaker 1: Chucks. Away george is already in position at two thousand

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00:39:55,719 --> 00:40:00,840
feet AS mj seventy five five starts her. Run about

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00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,119
seven thousand, parts most of them seventy five year old,

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00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:09,480
originals hundreds of them safety, critical, restored, rebuilt with no

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room for.

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Speaker 17: Error everything is at stake right, here right, now.

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Speaker 8: There goes is airborne this way if your carriage to

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go up now the carriage is.

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00:40:37,440 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 4: Up that's quite, something isn't.

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00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: It tension gives way to relief looking back over how

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00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,519
it's got from the back of the container in, bits

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00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,320
dusty dirty, bits and there it.

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00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 8: Is it's now flying on a beautiful, day blue, skies.

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00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:19,079
Speaker 4: And he's still up. There so he's obviously happy with

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it and enjoying, it and why.

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00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 5: NOT i wish it was?

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00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,599
Speaker 4: Me actually right NOW.

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Speaker 12: I think that might be flying for the.

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Speaker 5: UNEDUCATED i think that's. Flying what do you reckon? About it's.

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00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: Flying it's a deeply emotional moment for everyone.

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00:41:44,039 --> 00:41:48,039
Speaker 8: Involved so it's a special, airplane that, one.

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Speaker 1: But especially for a proud dad whose son is following

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in his.

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Speaker 8: FOOTSTEPS i Remember alex at two years, old running around

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the fuse larger of The kent Spit fire before it

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00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,519
was thought it was, completed running around with bits in his,

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00:42:03,599 --> 00:42:07,039
hand knowing what what he got in his, hand and

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00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:13,239
the and the significance of those. Parts it is a

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00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,519
way of life for. ME i have no doubt about.

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IT i can't see That i'll ever. Retire IF i,

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00:42:17,639 --> 00:42:23,119
DID i wouldn't know what to. Do here we are

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00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,880
first flight of The Greek. Spitfire the guy that originally

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00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,920
delivered it in forty seven as seventy three years. AGO

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00:42:30,039 --> 00:42:33,800
i sat, there think years AGO i was in that

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00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:34,880
same see.

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Speaker 5: So welcome back To.

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Speaker 3: George how was?

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00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 9: That that was a lovely?

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00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 4: Flight was it?

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00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: Good that is so close to?

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Speaker 3: Us there you, go there you, go, fantastic.

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00:42:54,119 --> 00:43:00,679
Speaker 1: They've done. It a perfect flight and perfect bit of.

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00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:09,280
Speaker 5: Parking pretty.

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00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:19,679
Speaker 16: Good, yeah it goes, Well, yeah lovely everything, right, yeah pretty.

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00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 5: Much, yeah very.

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00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:29,079
Speaker 1: Happy The greeks are keen for a full. Report it flies.

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00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:32,559
Speaker 8: Beautifully it's just a really nice, aeroplane nice, engine nice

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00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:36,480
and smooth for, parlors smooth on daylight today when the

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air is smoothed as.

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Speaker 4: Well it's just. PERFECT a few.

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Speaker 8: Nervous moments, there but all went well and it's all

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wrapped up. Today airplane flu pilot was, happy The greek

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00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,199
representatives were very, happy and we're just about to put it,

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00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,360
away put it to. Bed it's been a super, day

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00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,320
really has H.

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Speaker 6: It's a lovely thing to, see you, know after you've

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done all this. WORK i do get emotional Because i've,

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00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,159
seen you, know you go through it so many. Times

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00:44:07,159 --> 00:44:09,480
are you restore an aeroplane and see it fly for

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00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:11,039
the first, time and then we just move on to

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the next.

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Speaker 12: One we stopped the next one, already so factory never.

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00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 8: Stops we've got to keep these things in the, air

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So i've got.

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Speaker 4: To keep going for a while longer.

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Speaker 16: Yet, okay see you, soon.

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Speaker 4: Mm.

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Speaker 6: Hmmmm