Recovery footage

No video Cees of the Halifax ,I knew a member of the team and he only had still photos…….including the one of the bra on the aerial which was placed by the divers as a joke for when the aircraft surfaced !

Thanks Scotavia,

I hoped that there would be some moving pictures as well as there are a lot of photographs taken (including colour, hey it was the early seventies).
I have footage of the recovery of NA337 though.

Cheers

Cees

thats sad that the parts went missing… did it still have guns fitted etc

Footage about 1990.

The aircraft was usually covered by snow, but in an unseasonably mild patch, the snow melted, and revealed the aircraft. The pilots gloves and helmet were still on the seat.

Between the time the footage was taken and the aircraft being recovered, someone removed the tail section, the ailerons, instrument panel, stick, and one of the consoles. The recovery crew found most of the parts by following crude markers in the forest, and finding them hiding behind various trees! The panel was never recovered, or the stick top. The missing console and aileron turned up in a German collection some 10 years later!

Bruce

Am I alone in thinking that in the FW190 clip that looked like a Pete Rushen ‘Doppleganger’?

So I guess that footage was late 1980’s.

I saw it when it was under covers at Booker on its arrival in the UK.

Now in East Anglia under restoration to flight.

Mark

Wow some amazing recoveries there!

aircraft wise see

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/p39/index.htm

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/p40recovery/index.htm

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/hurricane_Z5252/index.htm

http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&i=6141&mm=1&vd=1

Brilliant Cees- remember seeing the recover pic in Classic Wings and being gobsmacked…the footage is brilliant

WELL discovered!

TT

although not aircraft there is some stunning tank recoveries if you want to see them

http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&i=2988&mm=1&vd=1

after the pictures click on the links for more

also see this

http://www.mil.hiiumaa.ee/2000_09_14_kurtna_T-34-36/

Fancy having a quiet walk in the woods and finding THAT! Makes you wonder, really, just how much more is lying around in remote parts doesn’t it.

Cees, where is it now?

Chris

No video Cees of the Halifax ,I knew a member of the team and he only had still photos…….including the one of the bra on the aerial which was placed by the divers as a joke for when the aircraft surfaced !

Fantastic footage

Wow she looks amasingly complete there.

Better than fairies!

Well…when I cleared the end of my garden…!! Shame really. I had to leave it there ‘cos the MOD wouldn’t give me a licence. 😀 Andy Saunders

FW-190

When was that taken, and does anyone know where?