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| Name | Gloster Gladiator and Curtiss Hawk 75 - Duxford Battle of Britain 75 Airshow 2015 |
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| Video Discription | The Fighter Collection's Gloster Gladiator Mk. II, N5903, G-GLAD, and their ex French Air force Curtiss Hawk 75, N0.82 X881,G-CCVH, displaying during the Duxford Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary Airshow 2015. Gladiator, N5903, was the last of 25 Mk.2's built under Contract 773235/38 and delivered in 1939. She briefly served with 141 Sqn in October 1939 at Grangemouth, west of Edinburgh, and was then allocated to the Air Ministry Development Pool as a flight trials platform in December 1939. Following this N5903 was placed in long-term storage with 27 Maintenance Unit (MU) at Shawbury in May 1940, until she moved on to 8 MU at Little Rissington in October 1943 and then to 61 Operational Training Unit at Rednal in November 1943. N5903, along with her Shuttleworth sibling Mk.I L8032, was earmarked for meteorological survey work and returned to Gloster at Hucclecote for conversion in January 1944. This conversion did not happen and the two Gladiators were left forlorn at Hucclecote, but saved from being scrapped. The next few years saw them remain with Gloster, somewhat forgotten whilst the main focus was on the war effort. After the war in February 1946 famous wartime ace and future test pilot, R P ‘Bee’ Beaumont, flew N5903, on four occasions. In 1950 the Gladiators were handed over to Air Service Training for ground instructional use with N5903 going to Ansty, near Leicester, and L8032 going to Hamble. When the Ansty School closed Viv Bellamy, an ex WW2 Fleet Air Arm Sea Gladiator pilot, saw the pair on a visit to Hamble and purchased the pair for a nominal sum of £1 each. Viv Bellamy moved both Gladiators to the nearby Eastleigh base of his air charter company, Flightway and began the task of getting one of them back into airworthy condition. N5903 was chosen as the donor aircraft in favour of L8032, even giving up her Bristol Mercury VIII engine that had just eight hours logged since being installed. N5903 languished in the back of the hangar until both aircraft were sold to Gloster for just £50. L8032 attended displays for the next few years in the hands of Gloster. It is assumed N5903 accompanied L8032 when she was presented to the Shuttleworth Trust in 1960. In 1971 N5903 was loaned by the Shuttleworth Trust to the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton, but was in a sad state with no engine, propeller, or spinner. Following refurbishment work N5903 was put on static display in 1978 at Yeovilton in a false Fleet Air Arm colour scheme as Sea Gladiator N2276. After purchase from the Shuttleworth Collection the Gladiator joined The Fighter Collection on 1/12/1994. Progress with the rebuild was slow but by 2004 she started to show signs of progress after concerted efforts by the TFC Engineering Team and Skysport Engineering. In 2006 the rebuilt wings were trial-fitted to the fuselage. 2007 saw the fabric work completed by Vintage Fabrics, who also applied the 72 Sqn scheme. She also wears the blue fin and forward tailplanes denoting the personal aircraft of the ‘B’ Flight commander. By late 2007 the re-covered and painted wings were refitted to the fuselage.The first post restoration flight was on Thursday 10th July 2008. The Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75 was a private venture which flew for the first time in May 1935. Following development and a new engine, three prototype aircraft were ordered by the US Army Air Corps under the designation Y1P-36. This eventually led to the P-36 lineage which went on to serve with around a dozen air arms across the world, including the USAAC as the P-36, the RAF as the Mohawk, and France as the H-75. This Hawk is one of the 100 in the first production batch sent to the French Air Force, and given the individual aircraft number 82, arriving in April 1939. Issued to 1ére Escadrille, Groupe de Combat 11/5 Lafayette at Reims, where she carried the command stripes on the fuselage of the personal aircraft of Commandant Murtin, CO of both GC 1/5 and GC 11/5. She moved to Toul during the Battle of France, and then on to Oran in Algeria before the Armistice. From 1940 to 1942 Hawk No.82’s Squadron was engaged in sporadic skirmishes with RAF and USN aircraft over Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Between 1946 and 1949 Hawk No.82 was with the 4th Training Squadron at Cazaux in Western France serving as an advanced trainer with 22 other H-75s. Hawk No.82 was saved from scrapping in the 1950’s and was placed in storage in France until acquired by The Fighter Collection in 1995. Following a major overhaul in the US she made her UK debut in 2005. It wears an authentic Armée de l’Air standard three-tone scheme, with her GC 11/5 markings on her port, and the Lafeyette Escadrille Sioux Indian head motif (the TFC logo) on her starboard side. The Fighter Collection’s Hawk is a very rare aircraft, along with the Fighter Collection P-36 they are the only versions of this aircraft airworthy anywhere in the world. Video and Audio content is Copyright © High Flight [ttCH4lwE7mk] |
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