I’ve started on the slippery and expensive slope towards a Spitfire instrument panel replica and have many questions for the coming days. I’ve been using recovered parts for reference, seemingly every picture of a current panel has differences. I came across this Oxygen regulator label from a Mk1, N3221. The aircraft is listed as breaking up in mid air, Bonvilston ,Glam. Eyewitnesses remember it coming down in pieces and landing in a flooded field so no post crash fire. The label is brass but has melted through on the left hand edge. Brass labels usually survive fires that will melt an aluminium aircraft to nothing (from visits to many burned out Ansons and Wellingtons on the Brecon Beacons). Could this label be evidence of an of an oxygen fire which caused the Spit to explode? Has anyone seen similar? It would be interesting to pin down the cause of the crash after all these years. Thanks, Ian.
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May 27, 2008 at 4:55 pm