TVAL Aircraft to the UK!

[ErrolC]

Update from the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust (Stow Maries) at ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk/?p=946

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The BE2es will be on static and flight line display and taking part in the Shuttleworth Shows when they are not supporting the planned WAHT events –
28th Jun Armed Forces Day (Stow Maries),
12/13th Aug BEF Deployment Commemoration (Dover, Arras),
Fly In 6/7th Sep (Stow Maries),
Goodwood Revival & Duxford (tbd) (13/14th Sep).

[dcw]

156:ZK-TFZ / A2943 by David Whitworth, on Flickr

[Peter Lewis]

Nice.

Be even nicer to see the colour version.

[dcw]

Here's a few from earlier today.
ZK-TFZ / A2943 looking very much at home in Hangar 3 at Old Warden:



Outside in the sunshine:



ZK-KOZ / A2767 is well on the way to completion:

[ErrolC]

Jun 17, 2014 22:30:35 GMT 12 Peter Lewis said:

Nice.

Be even nicer to see the colour version.

Click thru to Flickr, several more there.

Sent from my D5503 using proboards

[ErrolC]

Photo of test flight at Shuttleworth.

[dcw]

[dcw]

[Dave Homewood]

Wonderful photos DCW.

[ErrolC]

Some shots from Stow Maries
forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?130815-Stow-Maries-Armed-Forces-Day

[ErrolC]

More snaps

Shuttleworth

[ErrolC]

Interesting (if expensive) offer from WAHT

ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk/?p=1214

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We intend to package each watch and jacket with a visit to Stow Maries and a flight in a BE2e if insurance can be arranged. The starting price for each package is £10000. With the money raised we will be able to secure a visit to UK for the summer by a Sopwith Tabloid in which the RNAS conducted the first strategic bombing raid against Zeppelin sheds in Dusseldorf in Nov 1914 and a Nieuport Bebe which was very popular with the RNAS pilots early in the War. It will also help us to complete the rest of this year’s flying programme. You will be able to see them at Stow Maries in ealry September. If you are interested in bidding for this wonderful opportunity to experience WW1 aviation at first hand with a watch and jacket to commemorate the occasion, please contact our Chief Trustee [e-mail] .

WAHT needs you to get this offer to all your friends with deep pockets please retweet and share it on Facebook to the widest possible audience. We would like your ideas on how to maximise this opportunity so why not give us some feedback

[ErrolC]

Noted by NZ Civil Aircraft blog, TVAL seem to have 'snuck' out a new Bristol Fighter reproduction. Now overseas?
nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/calling-brisfit-zk-vtv.html

[davem2]

To Poland

[Brett]

[Dave Homewood]

It's got Flintstone wheels!

[rayo]

Forget Talley Ho Dave it's Yabba Dabba Doo!!!!!

[nuuumannn]

It's at the MLP in Cracow.

www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/index.php/aktualnosci/szczegoly/284

[ErrolC]

Sept 13, 2014 14:48:14 GMT 12 nuuumannn said:

It's at the MLP in Cracow.

www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/index.php/aktualnosci/szczegoly/284

Excellent! Great to see the type's post-WW1 service recognised.

From the Google Translate I read it as a rebuild with 60% retention of original parts?
Any ideas where it is going when the temporary exhibition is over? Staying at the museum perhaps?

Translate added here as webpages on temporary exhibitions are particularly susceptible to link-rot.

Polish Aviation Museum will host the next months a remarkable plane - Bristol Fighter F.2B. The machine came to us all the way from New Zealand, where it was rebuilt by Vintage Aviator Ltd

The plane is preserved in about 60% of the original design of the First World War. Has undergone extensive reconstruction to restore the original state. It is equipped with a functioning Hispano-Suiza engine with 300 hp and in accordance with the assurances of the New Zealand side of the plane has the ability to self taxi.

A copy will be presented in the Polish Aviation Museum in the original Polish painting from the period of the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920. Exhibit will be open to the public in the Main Building of the Museum until the end of October., As a key element of the temporary exhibition, dedicated to the service of the Bristol Fighter aircraft in Poland.

F.2B Bristol Fighter is a two-seater fighter plane, introduced for use in aviation British in 1917. Served as a machine hunting and assault. Production continued after the war, produced about 5300 copies, which have been used in many countries to the greatest 30s the UK user Fighters was Poland, which in 1920. Purchased 106 copies, which were used until 1932.

Vintage Aviator Ltd (TVAL) is a company founded a little over eight years ago. Deals with the reconstruction of historical aircraft from the period of the first and second World War. TVAL specializes particularly in the construction pierwszowojennych engines and propellers contemporary standards of behavior. More about TVAL can be read here and on the website of the company.

[ErrolC]

Sept 13, 2014 13:06:02 GMT 12 Dave Homewood said:

It's got Flintstone wheels!

Smart move on the wheels, the Bristol Scout replica approaching completion in the UK had a wheel nearly collapse during transit.

bristolscout.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/133-preparation-and-arrival/