Just goes to show, time spent in a bar is never wasted.
Thanks Ewan, That was the reason for my asking. I suspected it might be Fairey Battle, but it seems that I am wrong. Thank you very much Trolly Aux, WV-903 and Bruce for your assistance. Trumper, Oily rag I am very sorry if my second post came across as rude and/or abrupt. I certainly did not mean to offend. I have a very weak knowledge of the subject and suspect quite a few members here know (some) AH numbers by memory.
Seriously? Not a single response? Aren’t there manuals that allocate AH part numbers to specific aircraft? I’ve seen control column tops identified meticulously here on this website previously using AH numbers. No one can assist?_
Thanks to Peter Sledge for saving her and making a complete project out of a scrappy fuselage.
Or buy a parts catalog.
Are you guys still in the EU?
Geoff Goodall’s warbird register website states P-38H 42-66841 is with David Arnold/Flying A Services, Bentwaters UK. Is this incorrect?
Does David Arnold have a warbird facility at Bentwaters? If so, does it open to the public?
Yes, and their pilots were in their 20’s.
Ok Mark12, for those of us that just see trees and not forest. Let me get this straight. You were accused of diseminating private information two weeks after the hinds arrived in the UK, but your post shows you published the information 2 YEARS later.
Is that the point of your post?
I believe in the accusation he states you diseminated the private information on a forum not a publication. Could the accusation be referring to something else?
It’s good that you chaps can clear the air, so to speak, on this forum and not have to resort to violence. I hate to think what Mark 12’s 20mm would do to the hind’s ceconite.
You can probably get a couple of hundred US dollars each for them. But the truth is Curtiss Electric propellors, particularly the C532D (the D stands for duralumin) are impossible to find and fetch around USD$120,000 if you do find them. Many restoration projects use Hamilton Standard propellors instead.
Bruce, unless you actually go, then you never know. You may be right , you may be wrong. All we can draw upon is past experience. Lady be Good crew members remains were found exposed on the surface by searchers. Why not Lt Copping?
Would it be heresy for me to suggest that the tailwheel oleo be removed and placed in a new build P-40 fuselage and the flying aircraft be presented to the public as the only part of Lt Copping’s P-40 still flying in the world today. Therefore considered a restoration of the original aircraft.
Whilst everything else sans the tailwheel oleo goes into a museum display.
Win/win.
It’s good for; Provenance, inspiration, patterns, maybe small parts?????, solving questions about that particular model of P-38, museum display (probably imersed in a fluid) OR as a fish attracting device on a remote beach. Either way it does NOT need a lot of money squandered on it by interlectual types who never spend their own money.
Can someone please tell me where in the UK I can find an insitu memorial marker to service member/s killed in a road vehicle accident? Anyone? So why does the death of a service member in an aircraft make it more worthy of rememberance?