Good evening gents,
You all seem to be fairly knowledgeable (ahem) about such matters, so perhaps someone could shed some light on these, recovered by Midland Aircraft Recovery Group from a farm near Kinloss. The best guess we have is wartime or shortly post-war
The red one measures 6 feet long by 28 inches square, whilst the black one is 136 inches long by 18 inches square and slightly rounded on one side. We guess the black one holds approx 675 litres.
Any guesses?
By: wcfcfan - 11th July 2008 at 17:26
Thanks for the replies guys.
Cees, I wasn’t present myself, but I will enquire if anything else was spotted.
Steve
By: Cees Broere - 11th July 2008 at 12:05
I admit that I don’t know what a Halifax fuel tank looks like:p
Any other bits surviving in the area (tyres, props, fuselage sections, canopies, turrect cupolas)
Cheers
Cees
By: Phantom Phil - 11th July 2008 at 11:21
Hali-bag fuel-tank
Definately Halifax. NEAM has one in storage exactly the same as what is on the pictures!
By: ZRX61 - 10th July 2008 at 21:06
A quick Google has revealed that 130 brand new Halifax’s were broken up in 1945 at RAF Brackla, 15 miles down the road, so that is a real possibility, thanks Creaking Door.
Anyone got any further ideas?
Investigate every farm within 20 miles of Brakla? 😎
By: Creaking Door - 10th July 2008 at 20:31
The Halifax had wing leading-edge tanks between the engines (possibly oil tanks?) also there were five or six fuel tanks in each wing and these were laid side by side (long dimension fore-to-aft) so the other tank may be one of those.
By: wcfcfan - 10th July 2008 at 20:22
A quick Google has revealed that 130 brand new Halifax’s were broken up in 1945 at RAF Brackla, 15 miles down the road, so that is a real possibility, thanks Creaking Door.
Anyone got any further ideas?
By: Creaking Door - 10th July 2008 at 20:09
My guess would be Halifax (one is a leading-edge tank).
Weren’t a lot of Halifaxes broken-up at Kinloss?
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