Seems luftwaffe is having a sale this year. Here are more from Barnstomers:

“ME 109 G • GREAT OPPORTUNITY • Complete Me 109 G project, good wings and enough to build almost two DB 605 engines. Spare gear legs and all the small parts, plus system components included. A great way to restore and own your Messerschmitt. We can provide the project as a ground up restoration as well. • VISIT MY WEBSITE • Contact Claus Colling – FLUG WERK GMBH, Broker – located Gammelsdorf, Germany • Telephone: +49-8766-939 878 • Fax: +49-8766-939 879 +49-8766-1351 •”

“BF-109 PROJECT • $25,000 • AVAILABLE FOR SALE • Battle history 109F4 project includes tail section, outer wings, misc. parts, Reg. ID. Can restore. • VISIT MY WEBSITE • Contact Gordon Page – WARBIRD RECOVERY, Owner – located Lafayette, CO USA • Telephone: 303-460-1156 • Fax: 303-464-7576 • Posted March 17, 2008 •”

Hi Paul,

Thanks for those links, its fascinating reading.

How about the Focker that was recovered in Australia, after being lost for 30 years or more. I think it was either ‘Southern Cross’ or a sister ship.

By the way, is the real Southern Cross still preserved at Brisbane airport?

Bri 🙂

Ant chance you could elaborate a bit on that?

I’m still not sure if its a ship or an aircraft :p

I was browsing wikipedia and reading about the Short Sunderland, when i happened upon this bit:

“At the end of the Second World War, a number of new Sunderlands built at Belfast were simply taken out to sea and scuttled as there was nothing else to do with them.”

Does anyone know something about this?

It was fun, believe me! Not so the Delhi belly though:mad:
A great adventure….been there, done that, got the tee shirt!!
Getting Gladiator wrecks off Norwegian mountains was fun, too, if not a little colder than Rajasthan!

Please Tangmere1940! tell us about when you got Gladiators from Norway 🙂

I better elaborate in my last post.

What I’m talking about, is people trying to make a “great” deal, by illegally buying surplus materials (likewise sold unofficially), which they intend to sell.

After the war there was more or less nothing on the civilian marked. Someone who is offered a crate of aircraft instruments, would be likely to accept, with the hope of selling them (there are aircraft instruments, that could be used outside aviation, and even those that can’t, would seem to represent a value – for a later sale).

Anything electric would also appear to be of value. Same for engines, generators, hydraulic and fuel pumps. Quite litterally everything, could be seen as a possible deal.

My hope is that some of those things, proved less attractive on the black marked and ended in a storage room somewhere.

A parallel today would be those shops/stalls that seem to have a huge amount of old computer gear. The inventory might seem valuable (after all its consumer electronics), but the fact is, that there is no demand beyond the odd matrix printer fanatic 😀