Gone Bush…

Finished packing in the Hangar before lunch so after a quick bite we trundled over to behind the new museum to have a poke around.First pic is of the old taxiway where the countless Kittyhawks were lined up.@nd pic is it,s wartime condition.Third pic is the smelter slab(ute there for scale) where we have found a lot of stuff off the side of it.Next pic is some parts dug up.As you can see the condition is very,very poor due to the intense heat of the fire.Next is of a site near the taxiway where fires were lit under the planes to melt them down on site.The ground is almost sterile and rock hard from the heat of the fires.Look hard enough and you can see bits of perspex,steel and other odds and sods.Which is the next pic.We believe it to be a Kittyhawk part as it has a 200 up the top and “fuel” down the bottom.This pic next in line is special as this is where my good mate Earl test flew Mustangs from.The site is “Test and Ferry” and the last pic is what it contained during the war.Not a bad day all up.Where we had dug before someone had gone through with a digger and cleaned the area out.(Thanks Wednesday guys!!:D )But we did find a couple of parts in the nearby gully..:eek:
Looks like a Supercharger gear..Well if we keep on digging we might find a Spit one day.Thanks to the Museum and all the volunteers out there.The original WW2 pics are copywrited and the others were taken by moi.Hope you enjoyed it..