March 17, 2016 at 3:22 pm
I am reliably informed that the recovery of a Battle of Britain Hurricane will feature on Digging For Britain tonight, BBC Four, at 21.00.
More of the back story here:
By: BlueNoser352 - 23rd March 2016 at 05:36
Some good soul please think of us over here in the colonies and put the fine program on YOUTUBE….. love programs like this …Time Team etc !!! Much thanks !
BlueNoser352!
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd March 2016 at 21:09
No idea.
Good job the BBC didn’t notice the blatant Key Publishing ‘product placement’ though! 😉
By: SimonSpitfire - 22nd March 2016 at 15:01
Who was the chap speaking about the dig, he seemed to have done that sort of thing before?
By: Sopwith - 18th March 2016 at 11:35
The Hurricane flypast nearly didn’t happen, and was somewhat ‘restrained’, as the dig was a few days post the Shoreham crash and Shoreham airport was pretty much almost in view from the site itself. Thus, historic aircraft performing in the area was a somewhat sensitive issue.
Ah that accounts for it, I did think it was a little sedate compared to normal flypasts, so in that case good then that it was done with sensitivitiy.
By: Arabella-Cox - 18th March 2016 at 10:46
The Hurricane flypast nearly didn’t happen, and was somewhat ‘restrained’, as the dig was a few days post the Shoreham crash and Shoreham airport was pretty much almost in view from the site itself. Thus, historic aircraft performing in the area was a somewhat sensitive issue.
By: mmitch - 18th March 2016 at 10:32
Available on BBC IPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b073mr9r/digging-for-britain-series-4-2-east
Starts at 49 minutes.
mmitch.
By: Sopwith - 17th March 2016 at 23:28
Thanks for the head up. Hurricane flypast was nice touch.
By: AlanR - 17th March 2016 at 22:10
Nice to see the family of the pilot on site. Would have liked to have seen more of the dig.
Maybe it will go onto Youtube ?
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th March 2016 at 16:12
For some reason I cant get in to edit, but I think the time should be 21.00
By: AlanR - 17th March 2016 at 15:30
Already set to record 🙂