Stirling in Chinese markings

with only very few people TRULY knowing its origins 😉 🙂 😀

TT

Well TT if you guys just stop doing those Silly Costume Dances then things like this would never happen.:eek: :p 😀 :diablo:

Some clueless muppet has recently joined the Van Nuys CAP sqdn (Condor Sqdn, all T6’s) & claims to have “a Tigercat sat in my backyard that no one knows about & it’s not in any of the books”

.. in the middle of Los Angeles….:rolleyes:

ZRX61,

Their might be some truth to that rumor, while I was going thru allot of David Tallichets papers I came across a referrance to at least two Tiger Cats Fus. that have never been on any list. Don’t forget David purchase allot of the MGM stuff up in the early 80s and one of the list I’ve seen shows at least on Tiger Cat on it.

I recall a certain rumor about a F-6 in barn and everyone said it wasn’t true but Butch went and look and guess what he found an intact F-6 that had never been Demilled.

Some clueless muppet has recently joined the Van Nuys CAP sqdn (Condor Sqdn, all T6’s) & claims to have “a Tigercat sat in my backyard that no one knows about & it’s not in any of the books”

.. in the middle of Los Angeles….:rolleyes:

😀 ive heard there’s a sunderland at the bottom of hornsea mere, heard it from one of the local fishermen.

Don’t know about a Belgian Stirling find, would be nice though, aren’t you referring to the Vraux Stirling fuselage remains?

Cheers

Cees

Isn’t the Belgium based Stirling still whole and sitting in someone’s back garden being used as a canopy to shelter tomatoes? We add this to the what’s in your garden thread.

Just did! Or at least, the Dutch Garden shed version of the above.

DS

with only very few people TRULY knowing its origins 😉 🙂 😀

TT

Who’s that then?

Isn’t the Belgium based Stirling still whole and sitting in someone’s back garden being used as a canopy to shelter tomatoes? We add this to the what’s in your garden thread.

It’s a long-running forum joke, with no basis in fact sadly! 😀

with only very few people TRULY knowing its origins 😉 🙂 😀

TT

Hi,

A quick ‘google-at-work’ reveals:

‘OO-XAK PK136 or PK135 – Registered to Air Transport in May 1948; in 1948 registered to Tangiers Charter Company; to REAF in October 1948’ from Alex Crawfords article on Eygyptian Stirlings:http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_251.shtml

DS

Belgium registered,where is it and who operated it and what was its fate!!!

I think, if you take a look back at Fouga23’s posted link, you will find the most likely operator of this Stirling and perhaps even an eventual operator.

Where and what Stirling?

Belgium registered,where is it and who operated it and what was its fate!!!

http://www.baha.be/Webpages/Navigator/Photos/CivilPics/civil_pics_ootaa_oozzz/shorts_stirling_ooxac.htm

Thanks for that Jeepman, I hadn’t heard about this example before. Blimey, a forum rumour based on fact, whatever next??

Short Stirling V 00-XAC, operating for China Air transport

crashed Kunming, China. 23rd December 1947

was the origin for this. It’s continued survival (or parts thereof) is therefore not beyond the realms of possibility although unlikely.

Better chance for the Stirlings allegedly buried by the Egyptians in the Sahara desert……….:diablo:

Aussie spits buried?

I remember that one, and crates of lend lease stuff burried (or burned and burried) I guess the Hellcats etc thrown off of aircraft carriers have been checked or have rotted away.

There’s one in Russia too!

Don’t forget the Russian one!

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60675

DS

I think you should all start looking in the Syrian desert. I have it on good authority that a whole squadron on Spitfires is hidden there. That was the secret reason for the Israeli airstrike there this year. They wanted to keep up the prices of Spitfires as they are intending to sell their black one:diablo: I have it on good authority that they missed the location altogether, and the Spits are still there in very good condition.

Short Stirling V 00-XAC, operating for China Air transport

crashed Kunming, China. 23rd December 1947

was the origin for this. It’s continued survival (or parts thereof) is therefore not beyond the realms of possibility although unlikely.

Better chance for the Stirlings allegedly buried by the Egyptians in the Sahara desert……….:diablo:

What about the seven Lancaster bombers buried outside a Lincolnshire airfield? I even heard about this on BFBS radio news in the early nineties! There was also an article about this lot in an american aviation magazine. As you all might have guessed: I’m also new to this forum.
Regards
Peter

lol, i had heard about an alien spaceship somewhere, i beleive it landed (rather poorly i might add) somewhere near texas, or was it mexico??? i forget 😀 :p 😀