Instead of burning the airplane, does your town have an annual parade?  Maybe put it on a hay rack to advertise the airport?  Let a bunch of kids ride, wave, throw candy?  Okay, you'd have to fake an engine and prop, but . . ..

@ Tomshep. Where are you located? Some folks could use spare parts. I'm pretty sure Greg can use it.

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Meanwhile, my Max turned out to be far less badly damaged than I thought it was. No more than $70 and a couple of weekends' work will see it airborne again.

From this to firewood in a couple of weeks is pretty drastic!

I don't have the time to spare and with the cost of hangarage, it makes much more sense to fly the club plane. Here in the UK, nobody wants the aircraft which, since September has cost me 300 hours of work and £2500 an hour in flying. It simply doesn't stack up.

It would cost a lot more than  £2500 an hour to fly in a Spitfire let alone flying it yourself. Yet people pay it.

We all know that renting is the way, but we all know that the freedom to .......... is why we pay.

It isn't a Spitfire.

Peshawar flying club had two Cessna 150 aircraft. 1964 AP-AUC and 1976 AP-BAC. Both retired of old age at 35000 hours each.Thats not a typo and both were flying when retired.
AP-BAC had one engine failure in its entire life.An exhaust valve stuck on take off and luckily it landed straight ahead on the 11000 runway.

AP AUC never had a failure.
So I think the 0200 engine homebuilt should be a good choice for someone looking for utmost relaiability if one can afford. A Tayorcraft F19 would be great.

Personally I would rather stick with the mini cost maxi fun.

We had a partnership at our local airport (K34), some years back,  that built a Quickie with the Onan engine. After the second forced landing (neither landing damaged the aircraft, just the prop) do to engine failure. They went home, got a chainsaw and took it apart.

due to engine failure

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I don't have the time to spare and with the cost of hangarage, it makes much more sense to fly the club plane. Here in the UK, nobody wants the aircraft which, since September has cost me 300 hours of work and £2500 an hour in flying. It simply doesn't stack up.

You need a cheaper hobby!  Maybe loose women and gambling?

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It isn't a Spitfire.

But it HAS got invasion stripes!

Nice looking too.

Always intended to spend it on fast cars and loose women but always got it the wrong way round!

Just post the aircraft for one of your fellow British Buzzards to come take it away.......

This is what my Mini Max looked like 5 weeks ago. That's me in the background. Repairs are under way. I think I know why the engine quit, but I don't want to jump to a conclusion, so I'm not going to post the cause until I'm sure.

Greg I'm just glad you are ok. AC can be repaired. with as much trouble you've had with that engine, you ever think about getting a rebuilt one?

Puff, This is my second engine, and it was low time, (about 7 hours) when I got it. If the problem turns out to be what I what I suspect, then the engine is not to blame.

Wow Greg that photo brings back old memories. Hope you exited the a/c easier than I did.

Monte

Greg,
Your off runway incident not easy, glad you did it.
Sometimes I can't imagined why take those risk..

Photo me at left.

Phil

Ouch!