The Cummins Spinners Trophies

 

Awarded to the Best Auto Conversion Aircraft at The RA Aus annual fly-in Natfly.

 

 

The 2007 Winner was the Supermarine Spitfire 90% scale owned by Mike O'Sullivan

 

     

 

  

 

NATFLY 2007

The Mk26b is proving to be quite a hit. Mike O'Sullivan flew the 26b to NATFLY as its first major outing, covering some 3000klms of trouble free flying in the process. This is equivalent to flying 3/4s of the way across Australia. His confidence in this new aircraft saw him flying for hours out over the Australian outback without the slightest hesitation. The reception at Narromine was overwhelming with a constant flow of people enquiring about the aircraft from sun up to sun down. We were all glad of a beer by the days end!!!!!

To top the show off we were awarded BEST AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE CONVERSION out of approx 800 homebuilt and kit aircraft in attendance at the show. Thankyou to Cummins Spinners for making this award available and to the Judges who had to sort through a number of worthy recipients.

 

 

 

Mike O'Sullivan managing director of Supermarine Aircraft and designer of the Mk26 80% and new Mk26B 90% replica Spitfires successfully flew our latest addition to the Supermarine lineup. He lifted off at 7.24am EST Australia for an uneventful 15 minute sortie. After landing and taxiing back to the hanger he stepped out of FUN and said everthing was spot on and that this Spitfire was so easy to land and taxi and even more stable in the air than the smaller MK26. Absolutely no changes were made to the aircraft and it was then test flown for a further 45 mins. The second test pilot made the same remarks as Mike, "This thing is so easy to land!!" He put the Spitfire through a full regime of stalls clean and dirty, spins,tight turns, dives, loops, rolls and could not fault it. We are thrilled with its performance and are very confident of the integrity and flight characteristics of the new MK26B.