Malta Pics

And here is Part 2 of my efforts with a “pocket digital”:

I paid a visit to the Museum in September – here is Part 1 of my efforts with a “pocket digital”:

PU-597 ,my son and i just got back from Malta today. The Hurricane, Spitfire and Tiger Moth fuselarge are in a new hanger, built only a few years ago with EU Funding. They hope to get another Hanger with EU funding now that two years have past. The tigers wings, we where told are in England being covered. The tailpane in the photo outside, looks to us as of a Junkers JU 87 Stuka, which came from the sea. The Swordfish will need a lot of work, but after the Spitfire and Hurricane they can get it done. The Gladiator wings are on show. They still after the fuselarge, which is in the War Museum. Its a very nice museum, Its changed over the ten years i have been going over there. Very helpfull staff.

Dave 🙂

Malta Museum

Nice pics. They have recovered some interesting stuff and done some great restoration work over the last 25 years.
The Connie R-3350 engines standing there remind me that I have a photo of a couple of crated Wright R-2600 engines (prob ex-Desert AF Havoc spares) sitting by the side of a lane “somewhere in Malta”. The shot was taken about 20 years ago and I’ll bet they’re still there.

Anon.

Hi PU-597,

Thank you for the great photo’s, especially the Lion engine, although nearly all of the alloy has rotted there is such a lot of detail left to see.

Andy

Thanks for those.

Pic 3 looks like a Napier Lion – I have seen it noted they have a Lion series V recovered from a crashed Fairey IIIF.

Roger Smith.

Amazing what Ray and the guys achieve…this was the Hurricane when they brought it up in 1995 !