Case Study
Forties star returned to the skies
Cambridgeshire neighbours, the Aircraft Restoration Company and TWI, joined forces recently in a combined effort to breathe new life into a second world war Spitfire - with a damaged canopy frame.
Now owned by Rolls Royce the aircraft is the subject of a major re-fit at ARC's headquarters in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. The manufacturer was Supermarine Aviation and it was built in 1944 at the company’s Castle Bromwich base, after which it served one year of active service.
The component earmarked for TWI’s attention was a badly cracked hoop-shaped magnesium casting designed to support the cockpit glass.
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