captured german aircraft at boscombe down

Damn right!

Instead of ‘Time Team’ scratching about at Kenley for a few odds-and-ends why don’t they excavate this hole?

You never know, even an old washing-machine may be worth something! 😀

Only one thing for it..

Dig deeper dammitt!!!!:D

Forget boxed German aircraft. The aircraft were stored outside until wrecked in a winter gale and subsequently scrapped, with parts being buried in the aforementioned hole. Although we identified the site in the 1970s, unfortunately it turned out that when the USAF vacated Brize in 1965, they opened up the same hole and dumped loads of stuff, such as tools and washing machines, that they did not want to bother shipping back stateside, on top of the German aircraft remains.

Just south of the main runway at Brize actually.

What is? The dump of German aero engines…or the mythical hanger full of boxed WW2 German aircraft! 😀

Just south of the main runway at Brize actually.

I was an apprentice at the RAE during the late eighties I lookes very hard for the mythical hanger full of boxed WW2 german aircraft. It did not exist. I did find odd bits of tooling that had come from German WW2 aircraft though. All of that must be long gone now.
There were reports that the Johnson’s wax factory in Frimley green was built on a dump of German aero engines.

Rgds Cking

Farnborough had more than us at Boscombe. Many ended their days at Farnborough, in the USA or sadly, under the main runway at Brize Norton having been reduced by 6MU

Invest in a book called ‘War Prizes’ by Phil Butler

Dave

I assume most were scrapped but Messerschmitt Bf109 ‘Black 6’ now resides in RAFM Hendon

Martin