Flying again: Spitfire takes to the air 71 years after being shot down.

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Wasn't Peter Cazenove a wingman to Robert Stanford Tuck?
 
To me, this is even better news than normal given the recent loss of Galloping Ghost. Yeah, I know.....different plane. But its good to get another one back in the air.

I do have a question though, it shows the Spitfire landing in the grass. Why did it land there when there is a runway right next to it?
 
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I do have a question though, it shows the Spitfire landing in the grass. Why did it land there when there is a runway right next to it?
If it has the original 1939/40 u/c set-up, the axles are set to "toe-in," which was normal for grass, being more stable. It was only (very)late/post-war that the legs were set fore-and-aft, for hard runways, which would have scrubbed the tyres if they were toed-in.
There's an article in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph, with a slightly sad postscript; the owner found where Casenove had been living, but, when he phoned, his widow answered, saying that he'd died just a few days earlier. She also said that one of the last things he said was that he'd have loved to know what happened to his old Spitfire.
Edgar
 

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