I have long had a soft spot for privately run museums and collections. You wouldn’t believe where you can find aviation related subjects. A great museum I visited last week is the Schipbreuk- en Juttersmuseum Flora in De Koog on the island of Texel, Netherlands. Sporting an incredibly diverse and immense collection of beach finds and stories relating to shipwrecks around the island, it also contains a fairly well-represented amount of aviation “stuff”. Sitting outside were what looked like four big orange lifeboats. On closer inspection one of these was not a lifeboat at all, but the gondola of the cross-Atlantic Lindstrand balloon of 1986, PH-EIS. A shame such a record-setting “aircraft” has not found an indoor home…
Also outside was an immense amount of WW2 “scrap”. Trawled up engines, props. I’ll try and put a bunch of pics in here to see what you make of them. Some of them are beyond saving, others halfdecent (both the finds and the pics). Most are from the Northsea, all of them without ID’s.
By: Flying_Pencil - 15th August 2017 at 18:17
Although bits and pieces, an oddly (or very) fitting tribute to the war.
Great post!
By: D1566 - 15th August 2017 at 10:34
Fascinating … wish they could talk!
By: Whitley_Project - 15th August 2017 at 10:27
The rusty prop hub to the left of prop no. 3 is a Rotol hub. The tailwheel fork looks familiar – maybe Wellington?
By: Creaking Door - 14th August 2017 at 23:50
Engine number 4 is a Merlin.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:46
Aptly marked windsock makes me think at least one of the above will be at Duxford next year!
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:45
Landing gear leg 1 and 2. Also trawled up.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:39
Engine number 4. Another V-12, or what’s left of it. Had a top longeron of a wingspar attached to it, it would seem. North Sea trawler find.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:34
Propeller number 3 and a tailwheel leg. Both trawled. The prop is on its way out, to say at least. The prop hub behind (wooden 3-blade) was said to belong to the corroded engine number 3, but could be separate aircraft.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:31
Then there is this, undercarriage leg 1. Looks far too modern for WW2, and is twin axle, with a wheel each side of the leg. Anyone?
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:29
Engine number 3 is a V-12 laying inverted. It is missing some bits. Trawler find.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:28
Engine number 2 is I think a RR Merlin that has seen better days. Three-bladed wooden prop. Trawler find.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:27
Engine number 1. I think this is a very badly corroded R-1820. Could be from one of several B-17 wrecks off the coast. Another trawler find.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:19
No idea what this is, but it just has that aviation look to it. Wellington structure? Apparently a beach find, North Sea side of the island. Didn’t want to touch it, looked like it would fall to bits.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:16
Prop number 2, in mildly better condition. Another North Sea trawler find.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 19:14
Prop number 1, including governor housing, trawler find, badly corroded, North Sea.
By: TonyT - 14th August 2017 at 12:47
Cannot be mine then, it would have fallen apart long ago 😉
I think mine was the one that went for a swim in the pacific.
By: ericmunk - 14th August 2017 at 12:45
I built the radio racking for one of the balloon flights.
If this was for the first succesful trans-Atlantic balloon flight, of Summer 1986, it is still in there. Interior is still complete.
By: TonyT - 13th August 2017 at 21:40
I built the radio racking for one of the balloon flights.
By: ericmunk - 13th August 2017 at 21:24
I’ve been trying to, but with little succes even though they are all within download specs. I’ll try again tomorrow.
By: Whitley_Project - 13th August 2017 at 21:13
Please post them ericmunk
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