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Originally Posted by RickRuski
This project spread over about 8 years, but what a beautiful job has been done. The fusealage builder (Glyn Powell) has another in production we were told for himself along with the wings. The main problem Jerry Yegar has in getting it back home is the wings, they won't fit in a standard container (being a one piece wing). There was a suggestion a the display that he buys some land here and shifts his whole collection to NZ (as if that's going to happen). We had Kermit Weeks here in NZ last year at the Omaka Classic Fighters air show in Blenheim to pick up his new WW1 Albatross that was built here. He flew this at the air show at Omaka Easter 2011 (mainly a WW1 air show with a lot of replica WW1 aircraft. Approx 12 in the air dogfighting together at the same time). The fuselage that Glyn built earlier that went to the U.S.A, the wings were built in Canada probably because of the transport situation. If Jerry decides to have the plane flown home some lucky people are in for a treat.
For those that couldn't be here, here's a clip from the Mossie display (Pilot, Keith Skilling): -
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Great footage, thanks for that Rick Ummm...synchronised Merlins
