Just remember chaps that this is about what you HAVE found, not what rumours you hve heard. Rumours are fun but publicising them can screw up deals and cause all sorts of nastiness. I have heard some great rumours but mentioning some of them could get the stuff scrapped!

I did find a copy of the “Red Air Fighter” that used to belong to Robert Lorraine, a WW1 pilot and pre-WW1 flyer as well as noted actor. A friend bought an aviation textbook in Southampton only to find that the original owner had written his name in, someone called “Bert Hinkler”?!

Don’t buy bits of historic aeroplanes. Bought a whole one instead!

And it cost me less to acquire than some of you pay for cameras!

MH

Melve, if your refering to the Gamecock, parts of it are alive and well and i found them still in the barn where i remember seeing it as a very small boy!!! There still there under lock and key untill such time as we have enough information to satisfiy the powers at be that we can start a rebuild. But it wont be ready for Le ends next year!

Remains of Gloster Gamecocl G-ADIN still in a barn somewhere in Northamptonshire, and thats where there staying for now!!
Why is the Bulldog still in the Bush!!!!!!! Tomcat get a barrow were off!!!

I think you will find its a lorry!!

As Damien has said it beggars belief that some people can snipe at the way this incident was handled, anyone who has seen a fabric aeroplane burn will know that it takes a very short time for major damage and indeed total lass to accure, and i mean seconds not minutes! I would say, from the pictures as i was not there, that this was delt with extreemly efficiently. A times like this the safe evacuation of the passengers must be the first priority, saving the Aircraft the second. In this instence is woul appear that both were carried out in the best possible way.
For those suggesting that engine bay fire bottles be fitted, please pray tell me how that would have helped put out a wing fire cause by an exhaust flame on start up?!!!!!