In this case,
The Handley Page Heyford is an important type that is extinct apart from a few bits in storage by RAF Museum. IIRC there were some substantial wing remains on a British crash site, regarding it’s construction, would it be possible to reconstruct one?
Purey hypothetical speaking, what are your views
Cheers
Cees
By: critter592 - 3rd November 2008 at 15:20
Just found this, and answered my own (rhetorical!) question:
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/online-exhibitions/not-quite-extinct/handley-page-heyford-artefacts.cfm
Don
By: critter592 - 3rd November 2008 at 03:07
In one of the Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks books by Ron Collier, there are indeed some rather large sections visible in the (very old, probably 1960s) photographs of Heyford K6875’s crash site.
It would be interesting to know what happened to these sections; are they the ones held by the RAF Museum?
Don
By: Arabella-Cox - 2nd November 2008 at 19:28
Assuming we are referring to the Heyford crash site on Broadlee Bank Tor (?), Peak District, there was nothing but a bit of rotted timber, and a mass of rusted steel bracing wire when I last visited in about 1970. That’s my memory of it at least.
On a positive note, what I thought was a Hampden control wheel in my collection turns out to be from a Heyford.
Well, it’s a start!
By: G-ASEA - 2nd November 2008 at 14:15
I would love to see a Heyford. But i doubt if would ever happen. The bits from the crash site went years ago.
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