Its an Argosy (the whistling wheelbarrow)
mmitch

There is an article in the UK ‘Daily Mail’ today that reports the the small Dutch town near the crash site voted at a council meeting to spend the £170,000 needed to excavate the site and recover any remains of the missing crew. They had been asked to do this by some of the relatives. Werkendam has only a population of 24,000 but they voted to spend the money to honour the debt they owe.
It says that Britain might be asked to contribute.
mmitch.

In the new Aeroplane there are photos taken at the end of May showing the main fuselage and its boom being erected. The editor had tried to contact the museum over the letter they had published from the ex RAF engineer, expressing concern from the salt air corrosion experienced during RAF service. They had not received any reply to date.
mmitch.

Slightly to one side of your topic if I may. Anyone coming to Legends including Friday and coming across the midlands. Keep clear of the Northampton/ Silverstone area. The British Grand Prix is on and sold out so there will be a lot of traffic on all 3 days. This will also affect fly-in traffic,
Silverstone will be the busiest helicopter airfield in the world this weekend.
You have been warned. 😉
mmitch.

I can remember Stefan Karwowski in a Gnat at a Biggin Hill Airshow. it was the most beautiful jet display I have ever seen. He looped round puff ball clouds and made it all look so effortless.
mmitch.

Wrecks & Relics gives the US reg as N9089Z. The FAA info site gives the following as the registered owner.
AERO ASSOCIATES INC
Street P O BOX 5821
City TUCSON State ARIZONA Zip Code 85700
County PIMA
Country UNITED STATES
It was also registered in the UK as G-BKXW but this does not show up now on the G-INFO site.
‘Bedsheet’ had shuffled between Duxford, Biggin and Southend before ending up at North Weald. W&R doesn’t show it as having taken part in Hanover St.
I first saw it at North Weald about 10 years ago, I suspect its been there a lot longer than that. 🙁
mmitch.

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is still called that on their website.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/bbmfhome.html
The story of the grounding of the Lancaster was going around before Sq. Ldr Paul Day took over the flight. At the time cynic’s were suggesting that the way the RAF was being cut there would only be the Red Arrows (fighters) and the Lanc (bomber) left one day. Now even they are under threat again. 🙁
mmitch.