Recovery of Meteor T.7 WH194

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Bruce

Oh, leave Merkle alone! Perhaps he has become a closet member of TIGHAR??!!! After they have found Amelia Earhart, got those rows of Fw 190’s out of Alpine caves and flown “Maid of Harlech” off the beach then, and only then, will they turn to the Meteor T7. It needs to be talked about a good deal beforehand. Thats just the TIGHAR way of things!:D

I like your way of thinking 😉

You seem to have stopped broadcasting about your plastic Spitfire, Graham. Did anything come of it?

:confused: I think you have the wrong person Robbo. I do not know anything about a plastic Spitfire.

Well theres a surprise, after all those posts saying it was to be dug. All those arguments about selling shares in a dig opportunity, you yet again fold. Do you ever stick at anything. This is not a dig or Merkle bashing as you have put it, but you do seem to go on quite a bit, and all you say you are doing never comes off. So IMHO stop broadcasting to the world everything you say you are doing, as nothing you do ever comes of it.

as others have said, I needed to talk about it first !!, and my enthsiasm was Very strong, for over 20 years, and i have done Much over those years, but i cannot help the way i feel,like i said i sat in the kitchen a month or so ago, and it dawned on me that my whole outlook had changed, HONESTLY i HAVE been involved in this stuff since a teen, now i am 36, I guess the forever searching etc ,over 20 odd years with no real finds as such for what ever reason just burnt me out, and was affecting my family, the whole idea for the meatbox was for part of the westonzoyland project ,which to be honest was NOT my idea at all, i was working on par for a friend,so what is the point of me digging a plane that parts could be in good condition ,only for them to rot and not go on show, Just to please the aviation comunity,i would rather it come out when a museum could take these parts ,
I am sorry about it , Perhaps i am a failure as you basicly put it, but then again I wish i was perfect like you, and your projects,I only wish I had the Money and Storage/workshops as you do, then i may have been in a realistic position to do something,all i ever really wanted personally was a engine,that could run, But yet again dreaming !, it wont happen ,so i am better off out of it, at least a old motorcycle ,or stationary engine is small and mainly Storable and affordable, Hence why i have given up on the aircraft side of things, who knows maybe one day i will bu a chippie project, as its small enough to manage,
all I can say is at least I have tried, which is more than most 🙁

This is not a dig or Merkle bashing as you have put it…

I´m afraid it rather blatantly is.:rolleyes:

Don’t get involved in crash digs, too much mud-slinging ! be nice to one another on the forum.

Well theres a surprise, after all those posts saying it was to be dug. All those arguments about selling shares in a dig opportunity, you yet again fold. Do you ever stick at anything. This is not a dig or Merkle bashing as you have put it, but you do seem to go on quite a bit, and all you say you are doing never comes off. So IMHO stop broadcasting to the world everything you say you are doing, as nothing you do ever comes of it.

You seem to have stopped broadcasting about your plastic Spitfire, Graham. Did anything come of it?

Oh, leave Merkle alone! Perhaps he has become a closet member of TIGHAR??!!! After they have found Amelia Earhart, got those rows of Fw 190’s out of Alpine caves and flown “Maid of Harlech” off the beach then, and only then, will they turn to the Meteor T7. It needs to be talked about a good deal beforehand. Thats just the TIGHAR way of things!:D

Well theres a surprise, after all those posts saying it was to be dug. All those arguments about selling shares in a dig opportunity, you yet again fold. Do you ever stick at anything. This is not a dig or Merkle bashing as you have put it, but you do seem to go on quite a bit, and all you say you are doing never comes off. So IMHO stop broadcasting to the world everything you say you are doing, as nothing you do ever comes of it.

wh194

No the recovery has not happened yet, it was planned for july, but due to HSE reasons it was postponed and never carried out,
then there are issues with the farmer, he wants paying in one way or another,
i suppose if someone asked you to dig a 15 foot hole in your garden you would unlikely do it without some sort of compensation,
then there is the fact my interest has wained in all of this due to the politics, cash and storage, and not knowing what is happening with westonzoyland,

licence runs out soon, so it will either be dug, OR it will lapse and it an become someone elses project,

See

http://www.freewebs.com/merkle/eventsactivities.htm

I looked but it only says due to be done in July can’t see any other info

See

http://www.freewebs.com/merkle/eventsactivities.htm