are aircraft flying in areas of vast nothingness such as parts of Australia etc required to carry basic survival kits or even hand held transmitter radios?, as per yachts in the open sea.

surely by now some kind of signal would have been picked up either from mobile phones/radio etc as there may be as many as six on board?. 🙁

this is a print of a commision drawing i drew for a Falkland Veteren a few years back. the originals always look a lot better

in a couple of shots it looks as though the pictures have been touched up around the air intakes but again though the picture quality aint great. there are plenty of air crashes over the years where the pilots have pushed an aircraft to far and wing tips/ leading edges had failed.

one wonders if it was actually the tail (twisting,bending) giving way a fraction before the severe pitch up as the tails destriction seems far more advanced and fragmental as if its exploded. such a long time ago now though i doubt if anything new would come to light

Not the best of pictures but one of the first bouncing around facebook this morn 😀

Does Tom Wathen have a website? etc

Stick it on Ebay as a rare Spitfire bit :diablo: