Hi all
I’d like to try and recreate the cockpit/nose section of the awful Blackburn Botha. I know it was a turkey that killed many, many men but I feel it is a type that should be represented in some way, and rather than bemoan it’s extinction I would like to try and do something about it. So…
What Botha parts and drawings survive, and does anybody know of any parts available for sale? I am aware of the wing sections at Dumfries, but there must be more parts around – they built enough of them. Drawing will be essential, but I’m not sure who will hold them – any ideas? Any information or leads would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
ps: Does this count as the first post of ‘The Botha Project’?:eek:
By: N.Wotherspoon - 9th April 2011 at 17:45
A Botha throttle box was sold at the last Newark Aeroboot. It was “rough but restorable”, having (probably) been found in the Mag Elektron scrap area in the 1980s.
The guy was none too pleased when I congratulated him on his Botha purchase, as he’d bought it on the understanding it was from a Beaufighter!
Did it have “fake” wooden knobs on the levers? If so it probably used to be mine 😀 & you are correct as to its provenance – don’t want to know what it sold for though as I suspect “inflation” has run riot over the past few years!!!
Someone in the Millom museum mentioned in a thread here there is a submerged example in an estuary up north. If you are a devotee of the botha it might be worth looking into this.
Yes I recall many converstaions about that one, but very little actual action 🙁 I think an attempt was made to locate it, without success as far as I am aware – It is reputed to lie in a salt marsh with difficult access and after seeing the state of the Invader we uncovered in similar circumstances, I think their interest waned somewhat.
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April 9, 2011 at 11:29 am