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Acton, acton. Welcome to We Have Ways and make you talk with me, Al Murray and James

Holland, your second World War podcast and James, this should be fun. Who are we talking

to you today?

Well, we've got a very special guest today. We've got Sam Worvington-Lease and Sam

I'm lying for a few years now and he's a pilot, he's a former RAF. Well, he's a RAF

trainee, became a warbird pilot, he fly spitfires and harbours and up at Ducksford. But it's

also been the absolute driving force, brain child, man with most energy of which you need

a lot for such a project, trying to get a hawk typhoon back into the air and not just

any old hawk typhoon. A very special one, RB396 and quite a long way down the line but

you know, it's a big old slog isn't it? It's a task you've given yourself. Sam.

You could say that, yeah, you certainly could say that. But you're getting that, we're

getting that.

We are. Yeah, and actually we thought that the engineering would be the difficult bit,

raising the money is the difficult bit. So it's obviously costing a vast, vast, vast

amount of money and we're the sort of fundraisers in the project and we engage the aircraft

restoration company at the back end of 2018, start of 2019 to actually do the rebuild,

you know, the professionals because we probably could have done it ourselves but you have

to then set up your own facility, you need your own to, your own staff for a one off,

that would cost a lot more than paying the professionals to do it. And they're arguably

the best in the business. So you know, we've just been working away, started small at

air shows and merchandise like this little coffee mug here and things like that. And

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