He will travel eating ice cream.. a British man built a replica of a warplane in 16 years
Amman Today
publish date 1970-01-01 03:00:00
Retired engineer Steve Markham has spent up to 11,250 hours assembling a famous British aircraft in a hangar at his home, with the ably help of his wife Kay, as 16 years after starting the project, the pilot finally got the official green light to fly the hand-made plane. His first planned trip is for the couple to travel via Solent to the Isle of Wight to get ice cream, but Markham has his sights set even further, according to the British Daily Mail.
“Now I can fly anywhere .. I can go to Scotland for a day, but I can also take my wife, my first trip will be for ice cream on the Isle of Wight, and we will pass through Solent and around the island,” said the retired British engineer. A family of Scots, so at some point, we want to fly to Scotland, so that’s the next long flight.”
aircraft design
The plane can move from its place in Britain to Rome non-stop, and Steve Markham said, “I will have a nice Italian lunch with my wife and then return the same day,” and added that “the plane is a replica of PL793 Spitfire, which was based in the Royal Air Force. Odiham in Hampshire in the last year of the war”.
Markham, who lives near the military base, said he fell in love with the famous fighter plane after watching the biopic of pilot Douglas Bader. Hiding in the skies, they were the spy planes of their day, and very little has been written about their accomplishments.
Kai Markham’s wife
“If not for the RAF and their success in World War II, my generation’s life would have been completely different,” Markham said. “We owe them a huge debt.” It was outbid, so he decided to build his own model, and bought an airframe kit in 2006, but bought the engine parts, propellers, and paint separately.
The engineer and the plane
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