Chinese Stirling – Existence Proved

Hi all,

If I had a pound for every time we had a false dawn re the Russian Stirling, I’d have £32:D . We have tried just about everything we can think of to get hold of that flippin aircraft, from going officially through the RAF Air attache in Moscow, the MOD, privately, the Russian embassy and even Roman Abramovitch! all to no avail. The Russian authorities denied all knowledge of it ever having been on their soil, which is a bit surprising as documents shown on another of these threads shows that the aircraft was evaluated within their borders.

We are still keeping our fingers crossed though that the future may bring us something more substantial. In reply to various questions related to the Stirling Project, I’ve decided to post regular updates to a new thread as per Cees’ and David Collins’ excellent cockpit updates.

regards

John

The egyptian Stirlings are problably the only “quick” way to find substantial Stirling airframes. Or one should surface from Scandinavia.

If the Russian Stirling is still extant, it was known by now I think. I would think that a substantial Stirling airframe has a limited value only to the UK, or would serve as swap material.

Any views on that?

Cheers

Cees

Very funny :p:D , I was just about to e-mail the rest of the Stirling project bods to give them some fantastic New Year news.

Im in awe….:eek:

Very good paul.

I bit………………….:eek: 😮 😮

Happy New Year to you too.

Miggers:D