LATEST CLASSIC WINGS

[DaveM2]

Welcome aboard Brenden, latest in the post to you today.

Chris, the wreck recoveries are of a more tropical variety (rather than desert)

cheers
Dave

Tropical??? Maybe all of those juicy Japanese wrecks in the Solomons? Perhaps (gasp!) a Betty???
kevin

And the award goes to (drum roll...) Kevin. Yes, two in fact. The initial recovery of these and several other airfames was detailed in Issue #111. But little happened thereafter with both internal and external interference holding things up for two years, however that has now changed......

Sopwith, I haven't heard of anyone outside NZ receiving their copies as yet- hopefully not too far off.....

cheers
Dave

[Sopwith]

Ok cheers for the update Dave

[Zac Yates]

Thanks to an unexpected tax refund I visited the Classic Wings website last week to restart my dormant subscription. Looking forward to this issue! I do like that cover.

[Zac Yates]

Got it!!

[tulsaboy]

Dave,
Woo hoo!!! What a fun, positive bit of news for 2020! Looking forward to reading all about it!
kevin

Welcome aboard Brenden, latest in the post to you today.

Chris, the wreck recoveries are of a more tropical variety (rather than desert)

cheers
Dave

Tropical??? Maybe all of those juicy Japanese wrecks in the Solomons? Perhaps (gasp!) a Betty???
kevin

And the award goes to (drum roll...) Kevin. Yes, two in fact. The initial recovery of these and several other airfames was detailed in Issue #111. But little happened thereafter with both internal and external interference holding things up for two years, however that has now changed......

Sopwith, I haven't heard of anyone outside NZ receiving their copies as yet- hopefully not too far off.....

cheers
Dave

[Sopwith]

How is international postal service doing, anyone in the U.K. got theirs yet? Starting to panic and getting withdrawal symptoms now

[DaveM2]

How is international postal service doing, anyone in the U.K. got theirs yet? Starting to panic and getting withdrawal symptoms now

Some hope, I got an email entry for the Mystery Aircraft Competition out of Australia and the USA yesterday...UK/ Europe can't be far behind (hopefully). It's only been three weeks since it was posted....

[Sopwith]

Thanks Dave, here’s hoping.

[TAdan]

Got my issue today (New Jersey, USA).

Dave, any more information on the note on the inside cover that the TVAL is no longer manufacturing aircraft?

[C VEICH]

I do a great deal of international shipping and delivery times are much greater than they used to be, sometimes almost ridiculously so. I ordered a small item from Australia and waited over six weeks to receive it. I have one package coming from China that is going on nearly two months while another I ordered at nearly the same time only took about three weeks. Seems to be all over the place right now. I have never seen my local post office as busy at it has been since the pandemic started, not even during Christmas season. I don't know what people are shipping but they are shipping a LOT of it.

[ErrolC]

And there are a lot fewer passenger flights with room in the hold.

[Sopwith]

Thanks for the replies guys, the pandemic has certainly screwed things up.

[DaveM2]

Got my issue today (New Jersey, USA).

Dave, any more information on the note on the inside cover that the TVAL is no longer manufacturing aircraft?

Dan, no more than the usual rumours. As I understand it the pilot training days will resume in September (two were cancelled during the 6 week lock-down). These have been a regular thing for the past few years, but are not a 'public' event as such. IIRC they run about six of those a season to keep pilots of the aircraft current etc.
It seems they intend to continue operating the fleet they currently have, and I a hoping they will complete the projects they already have underway - time will tell guess.

[Brenden S]

I got mine pretty quick which I was surprised about. Due to the limited number of flights mail is going via ship and not via plane at the moment.

[steve dickey]

Got it in Arizona USA yesterday!!