Besides “boring” Spitfires, there was a plenty of other interesting things to purchase with that amount of money in the early sixties!

Source: sorry, do not remenber.

Laurent

Confirmed.

If you look more closely at the sight, you will notice that:

– the usual classic reticle has been replaced by a single ring and dot reticle;
– the range and span dials at the bottom of the sight have been eliminated;
– they have been replaced by a single dial at the bottom for open/shut position that will, in the shut position, only leave the center dot visible.

Cordially,

Laurent

FU-105 “preserved” by the Brussels air Museum and located at their so called “reserve”. Sorry, but always furious when i see the way they treat most of the aircrafts in their collection.

Good day,

One wreck that i do not understand why it has never been recovered is the Ki-48 Lily still sitting in the Kuriles Islands. It’s indeed a wreck and quite incomplete but none of them are preserved in Japan or any western museum.

Laurent

Bonjour a vous deux,

Well, how could I say it’s a fake photo if one of you say he actually saw those two SO 30 in 1970.

My comments/doubts were relating to the buildings between & below the planes : roughly to scale, the entrance and windows are maximum 5 feet high, hardly usable as a café! But if the café was actually the fuselages, that’s another story.

Hopefully, there is still one SO 30 Bretagne with us ( preserved in Saint-Nazaire)

Laurent

It occurs to me that the loser of this publicly aired duel is not going to be left with much credibility.

Indeed! Sorry to say, but the seller has been in the trade for 20+ years. So if after all those years he still cannot make the difference between an original and a copy he is selling, ……..

Moderator, please scrap my comment if found too “aggressive”

Laurent

For those of us with long memories, wasn’t this one of Setter’s fantasies?

Along with photos of the Syrian Spitfires from the Italian Air Attaché (which I’m sure Mark12 remembers well), P-61s in transit to Paul Allen in a haulage yard near Manchester, and many other little gems to brighten up our days a few years back.

That one (the P-38 at clark) is definitely not one of Setter’s fantasies but a well documented fact (see for example photos below). But Setter had “gone wild” when he started to claim that the recovery of those P-38 had actually started and that he had personnally seen a few perfect recovered examples.

Considering that the last (but still very few) P-38 recovered for restoration were just very incomplete corroded hulks just good for “data plate” restorations, i find it strange that no real effort has been made yet to go to Clark and see what’s left of them. Especially that these buried P-38 should be easy to locate : the Arayat volcano at the back of all photo gives a very good idea of location and early post war aerial photos of clark must be plentiful.

Laurent

If this can help, see below what a Hurricane U/C indicator looks like

Laurent