Stirling section at Conde-Vraux

Hi Nick,

Don’t know the exact location but I got two pics showing the very stubstantial centresection of wings and fuselage and tail. The very complete throttle box is on show at the local museum.

Could you post your pics?

Cheers

Cees

What more could be lurking in the vast French wooded areas and mountains, perhaps a substantail wreck on a hillside? I have seen pics of a very substantial Halifax wreck, so there could be more, even more when you think that the Stirling could not fly over the Alps or other mountain ranges, but had to fly around the highest peaks.

Cheers

Cees

Hi Cees – Presume the substantail Halifax wreck you refer to is the one also on the Vercors? I have copies of the photos + ones of what is there now – Not a lot left I’m afraid. Seems a very determined group of roaming scrap dealers chopped it up & removed it piecemeal by pack horses in the 1950s/60s.

What more could be lurking in the vast French wooded areas and mountains, perhaps a substantail wreck on a hillside? I have seen pics of a very substantial Halifax wreck, so there could be more, even more when you think that the Stirling could not fly over the Alps or other mountain ranges, but had to fly around the highest peaks.

Cheers

Cees

Photos

Further to our telephone conversation the other week – I mentioned the MS 406 remains in the Aisne area and German glider remins still on the Vercors & emailed photos to your associate – he said he would pass them on to you – still havent found the disc with the best of the glider photos though 🙁

Photos??

Probably old hat, but on a recent visit to Vraux-Conde Museum, France, I noticed a very large Stirling section.
http://www.chez.com/amrvraux/

Hi Andy – You did well to find them open – we seem to always be in the area mid week & they are closed 🙁 – Not too far from the MS 406 crash site memorial I mentioned – Did you get the photos?

Wow, that is a decent chunk. Better condition than the RAFM piece as well

This was mentioned by Cees way back here:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=28664&highlight=short+stirling

Whats the cockpit behind the tractor ?

Looks like a DFS 230 glider.

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That is a big piece.
Thats a nice Jag cockpit, I could give that a good home.
Whats the cockpit behind the tractor ?