Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Sunday, June 29, 2014 12:18:06 AM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 28/06/2014 22:44, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >>> It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane
> >>> from
> >>> the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a
> >>> Spitfire.
> >> 
> >> You have an actual flying Spitfire nearby? Wow! I thought Evelyn was the
> >> last airworthy model left anywhere.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> For those who don't know, Evelyn was a Mk IXe and spent years in a kid's
> >> playground in Pretoria (the city I grew up in) before someone started
> >> restoring her in the late 60s. She was rebuilt at Zwartkop Air Force
> >> Base (where I spent time as an apprentice) and stored at Lanseria
> >> Airport (where I've spent many a happy hour drinking fine wares at the
> >> restaurant above the apron).
> >> 
> >> Last I heard, she was sold and ended up in Brazil...
> > 
> > Considering there are companies selling flights in them:
> > 
> > http://flywithaspitfire.com/
> > http://tigerairways.co.uk/spitfire-flights.html
> > (from this one:
> > To the best of our information there are about 50 Spitfires currently
> > flying Worldwide.  Of these only five are two-seaters (converted Mark
> > 9’s), three in the UK and two in the USA)
> > 
> > Never mind that there are quite a few scale models flying around :)
> 
> I reckon I was told "only airworthy Spitfire in the world" when it was
> actually "onl airworthy Spitfire in Africa"

Typical :)

> I suppose that's what happens when you don't fact-check. That'll teach
> me :-)

Yep, that should teach you :P

Btw, I do not have all the info, but it could be that they meant last one of 
that particular model.

--
Joost