{"id":1205,"date":"2014-05-04T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T09:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/?page_id=1205"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:05","slug":"the-grand-daddy-of-all-youth-build-a-plane-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/the-grand-daddy-of-all-youth-build-a-plane-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Grand-Daddy” of all Youth Build-a-Plane projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the project that kicked it all off.<\/p>\n

G-BTSC , an Evans VP-2 called “The Spirit of Truro”<\/h3>\n

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\u2022   Built under the guidance of Design and Technology teacher Dennis Keam at Truro School,  Cornwall from the summer of 1978 to 1979.<\/div>\n
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\u2022   The Truro School Flying Club was formed to oversee and fund raise for the project.<\/div>\n
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\u2022   Displayed at the 1980 Farnborough Air Show and and many air shows in the South-West.<\/div>\n
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\u2022  Tested on 17th June 1980, at Deer Park, Tregavethan by Phil Irish, then to St Just and Lands End, with its CoA issued on 16th June 1981.<\/div>\n
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\u2022  Flew between Truro and its twin, Morlaix in France on 20th July & back on 23rd July 1982.<\/div>\n
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\u2022  Currently preserved at the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre<\/a>, Newquay Cornwall Airport, St Mawgan, Cornwall.<\/div>\n
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\u2022   Here is the full story of an excellent and pioneering project.;<\/div>\n
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Take Flight<\/a><\/h1>\n
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This is the project that kicked it all off. G-BTSC , an Evans VP-2 called “The Spirit of Truro” \u2022   Built under the guidance of Design and Technology teacher Dennis Keam at Truro School,  Cornwall from the summer of 1978 to 1979.   \u2022   The Truro School Flying Club was formed to oversee and … Continue reading The “Grand-Daddy” of all Youth Build-a-Plane projects<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1205\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}