Is This A Bit Of Whitley?

Hei,

Attached an interesting photo that shows what can happen to colours after many years under the ground. The colours were red, white and blue.
This propeller belongs to the Fokker D.XXI that is now at the Crash museum in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands.
We should be careful to use colours to identify parts.

Regards,

Mathieu.

Just found the Oxford on Mark’s midland website. Can’t find the Whitley though. must be losing it… The Me. filter and label were in the bag, Phil found them today.

Ah, thought that the name rang a bell, could the bits be from that site or does the finder know where they come from as i have a Map for the Oxford

Just found the Oxford on Mark’s midland website. Can’t find the Whitley though. must be losing it… The Me. filter and label were in the bag, Phil found them today.

Interesting stuff. My grandparents lived in Gotherington and I never heard of a crash there. Oddly enough back in the 80’s it seemed you couldn’t got 15ft in the village without stumbling over a piece of PSP.

I seem to recall that a airspeed oxford crashed near to Gotherington

Interesting stuff. My grandparents lived in Gotherington and I never heard of a crash there. Oddly enough back in the 80’s it seemed you couldn’t got 15ft in the village without stumbling over a piece of PSP.

Thanks for the help both, was it Prescott, Glos, a Whitley came down?

Elliott,

If this helps, when we recovered the first Stirling that came down on Dutch soil we also found yellow primer on the interior of the skinning. Subsequent similar digs on later built aircraft never had this, so could be a prewar thing that was soon discontinued perhaps?
Cheers

Cees

Hi Ian

It does look a bit like a bit of Whitley fuselage – i’d have to look at it close up to say for sure. The stringer and frame remains would help say for sure. The yellowish interior colour counts against it though – never seen that before. Overall, i’d say possible…

Thanks for posting it!