By: Peter - 17th October 2008 at 23:26
Apologies to dig this up from the depths but I came across some recent video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6CDIjPJls0
It looks like the sight has been further damaged judging by the video of te tail section and the wing which is minus more skinning..
By: Peter - 31st July 2003 at 13:52
thanks Richard..
Hello Richard.
Thanks for the update. I wish you all the best for the recovery. I wonder just how much of that iarcraft is sitting in villages and homes in the area??
By: Rich Woods - 30th July 2003 at 11:15
Hi Peter,
The planned recovery is still being held up due to circumstances beyond my control. As I have posted before, the plan was to have my local TA unit recover her as an overseas camp/exercise.
They were very enthusiastic about the idea, as one of the Officer’s fathers was a bomber pilot during the war with a Canadian squadron, and I had the honour of meeting this gentleman earliar this year.
Then things kind of kicked off in the middle east and the TA had other more pressing matters to attend to.
I tried the sponsorship route, but nobody was really that interested…I relly can’t understand why, but that’s life, I suppose. So I am saving my pennies from my classic car pursuits and hopefully I will be able to recover her soon. I have a contact address for Elsie’s last surviving crew member, and am in the process of renewing the recovery permit issued to me by the MOD last year.
I plan on approaching the TA again once things return to a relatively normal state, hopefully they will be as interested as they were last year.
Cheers
Richard W
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