cracking job, looks beautiful indeed, ME109 next?

Ironbridge is close to Cosford, yet has interests of its own (Industrial museums) and is in Shropshire, one of the most beautiful counties in England.

http://www.ironbridgeguide.info/

Moggy

the Wartime Aircraft Recovery Group (WARG) have their very interesting museum at Sleap airfield (Shropshire Aero Club), inbetween Wem & Shrewsbury. its about 3/4 an hour from Cosford.. also just down the road from Cosford on the M54 is the Boulton Paul aircraft museum. both of these are of course smaller museums that are manned part time so best check opening time beforehand.

Sleap incidently are having their Battle of Britain dinner this sat eve with some wartime veterens attending for a good old nosh up. places still available, £18 a head i think?

When I first read the title I imagined a field full of freshly grown Vampires and Meteors ready to be harvested !

they aint the kind of things that grow on tree`s unfortuately lol

thanks planemike. i think i overflew it in a Rapide a couple of years ago but didnt know where it was what i saw, but now i do lol

I’d say the video posted by ZRX61 tells us pretty much all we need to know, the full sequence of events, but without the ultimate conclusion of them; if this video had been posted right at the beginning, I dare say it would have avoided most of the speculation, and the negative response to that.

I don’t understand the attitude that air crash investigators are gods to be revered; my friend died in a chipmunk 30 years ago, the report suggested that loss of control may have been caused by water sloshing about in the rear fuselage, having permeated through the doped fabric…….

When i was stationed at Coningsby. i used be a painter and finisher and spend as much time on the BBMF aircraft as pos. anyway one day i was poking around the rear end of the Dakota doing a repair when i accidently bumped a fabric faired part near the rear wheel. the bit that i bumped should have sounded like tight drum but instead it was a dull thud of a water balloon.

a quick slit with my stanley knife on the lower part opened up a floodgate. there was a bucket n a half of water in there. the Dak had not long come back after a refit of some sort and a simple thing as eyelets had been missed. im not saying that this would have brought the aircraft down directly but no doubt corrosion would have had an effect over time.

i had a pat on the back from the FLT SGT.

sorry for your loss

nice of you to fess up . so glad you didnt get a dunking ha ha