Freeman Field…

IIRC it was in FlyPast and the Typhoon radiator was shown in one of the pics.

Cees

IIRC it was in FlyPast and the Typhoon radiator was shown in one of the pics.

Cees

Buried WW2 aircraft stuff

Is this the place in the US they discovered loads of WW2 propeller blades and other parts from German aircraft?

I seem to remember an article on such a dig in a magazine at least five years ago – or was this somewhere else?

Anon.

Buried WW2 aircraft stuff

Is this the place in the US they discovered loads of WW2 propeller blades and other parts from German aircraft?

I seem to remember an article on such a dig in a magazine at least five years ago – or was this somewhere else?

Anon.

Latest news is they are going to use ground penetrating radar to survey the ENTIRE field…

Latest news is they are going to use ground penetrating radar to survey the ENTIRE field…

Hope they keep an eye open for…

Does that mean that Typhoon MN235 can have it’s original radiator back?

Cees

… all the missing Typhoon bits – spinner prop, rad, ducting and upper nose cowlings. If you run the video on the Freeman Field site noted in the first post, Hendon’s Typhoon makes a brief appearance at 1:35 or thereabouts – just the top of the fuselage – it is clear that the cowlings were already off.

I do recall that someone has reported a sighting of what could be the missing radiator on an airfield but regret I can’t recall when or where.

Hope they keep an eye open for…

Does that mean that Typhoon MN235 can have it’s original radiator back?

Cees

… all the missing Typhoon bits – spinner prop, rad, ducting and upper nose cowlings. If you run the video on the Freeman Field site noted in the first post, Hendon’s Typhoon makes a brief appearance at 1:35 or thereabouts – just the top of the fuselage – it is clear that the cowlings were already off.

I do recall that someone has reported a sighting of what could be the missing radiator on an airfield but regret I can’t recall when or where.

Latest news:
Friday:
Southwest Corner, Day 1. With only 30% of the suspected burial pit harvested, we decided to do a partial survey. Our findings were encouraging to say the least. Indications of large buried objects and the presence of a great deal of metal reinforce eyewitness accounts of burials in this area. We await the completed harvest in order to finish and grid our site. Then we will start to dig.

Today:
THE PLAN: Now that the corn is harvested, and we have confirmation of metal returns and large radar targets underground, we will proceed to radar-map the 3-4 acre Southwest Corner site. This will show us the location and concentration of the buried items and allow us to plan our excavation approach. We anticipate the radar-mapping to be complete by mid-next week. DG

This pastoral scene is about to change..

Does that mean that Typhoon MN235 can have it’s original radiator back?

Cees

One of the sponsors of the Freeman Field digs was Jerry Yagen, who’s now a major warbird collector who owns the Military Aviation Museum at Virginia Beach and Fighter factory rebuild shop.

In addition to the easily recognized Spitfire gear door and Fw-190 fin, I was impressed with the discovery of a Jumo jet and most of a V-2 nozzle.

A full account of the freeman Field digs (at least up until 1999) can be found in Forgotten Fields, World War II Bases and Training, Vol. II by Lou Thole.

The series is worth a look. They’re filled with “then and now” photos and discuss the usually overlooked massive USAAF training scheme.

On one of the early digs on Freeman field, they were surprised to find a Spitfire gear door.

I think it can be safely assumed it was from EN474, as in this shot, taken 4 June 1972 at Silverhill, Washington.

Mark

That looks like one worth watching.