u stay Ozland rite? there a bloke that build spitfire replica out of a shed on the gold coast. even though not the merlin engine, the replacement engine more than a match to the merlin.
Nope. I emigrated to Canada many years ago. Now based and working in Peesai.
I kinda lost interest in planes after not qualifying for RSAF. Had a college professor who too was building a WW2 replica fighter plance and spent some time wiith him - but that was more on motorcycles, he had and old BMW (R75S?) bike and dressed like the Red Baron when riding (in US) and I had a Yamaha RD400 then. Not familiar with plane engines, sorry.
"The air crash happened around 9am. The pilot parachuted to safety but his aircraft fell on a house in
the city's Jinping District, setting off a big explosion."