hi,
After visiting the MBCC, I had time to spare before catching my train so had a look at K9942 and noticed it had a ring-sight, should it have ? and the
Do.17 display, also the RAF Museum,s magazine RADAR give details of it,s crew, the display also quotes its code as 5K+AR has it been identified?
regards
jack…
By: adrian_gray - 20th November 2013 at 23:15
I had a chat with the lass conserving parts at the MBCC last weekend. Apparently the two main ID plates were probably fastened with magnesium rivets, which would have fizzed to nothing in no time at all in sea water, while of two other plates one had been broken off while its opposite number had been cut out. Someone, somewhere…. So it looks as though we’ll have to wait and see what evidence emerges from under the sea life. I think now it’s fairly obvious that it had laid on the open sea bottom ever since it was shot down, and was never hidden by the shifting sands, so it’s a minor miracle that as much as there is has survived.
Adrian
By: jack windsor - 20th November 2013 at 19:57
hi,
cheers, Andy thanks…
regards
jack…
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th November 2013 at 18:36
Yes, K9942 was returned to original spec by the Medway team; no armoured windscreen, no reflector sight. K9942 had later been modded-up to newer specs in-service.
No, the Dornier 17 hasn’t yet been identified.
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November 20, 2013 at 6:14 pm