It’s those ugly flat panels on NX611’s cupola that makes it look different.

My money is on a repair, due to the original double curved panels having been damaged at some stage. It may even be vandal damage since its arrival in the UK, perhaps when on display at Blackpool?

Does anyone have photos of its turret when it first arrived back in this country?

I found it all a bit confusing.

For example, why, if the aircraft came “more or less straight down” (as the AAIB man suggested, and having lost its wingtips), was the wreckage so intact and apparently recovered from what looked like a small depth?

Surely, wreckage in that kind of condition suggests a more horizontal impact, rather than a vertical one?

Or did i just mis-interpret his comments? :confused:

p.s. Would the FOI Act apply to Atcham Tower’s comment on accident reports?

It’s not been a brilliant year for finds.

A WW1 era magneto switch, obviously adapted for other purposes as it was liberally slobbered in emulsion paint, a WW1 era Elliotts Bank Indicator, as seen on the dashboard of your Microsoft Sopwith Camel etc, a n.o.s. Twinob magneto switch, still with Stores tag, much sought after by Tiger Moth restorers (and others), and a 9 gallon drinking water tank from a Lancaster.

I also picked up a Pilot’s Handbook for the Martin Baltimore, sort of a cross between the Pilot’s Notes and a slimmed down Volume 1 Air Publication – fascinating stuff about an almost forgotten aeroplane which did much good service in the Middle East.

As I scan this list, I realise with dismay that none of it came from the aerojumbles! 🙁

That’s an interesting find slummer, and thanks for posting the link.

I’ve been checking through Bomber Command Losses 1944 by W R Chorley, and cannot match up any loss in that part of France on 13th July.

Les Gatines d’Oulins is to the West of Paris, but most of the action that night (12/13th July) was to do with the Revigny Raid, and most of our losses were to the South and East of Paris.

Maybe the photo was taken on 13th July, but the aircraft had come down some time before?

I note that ME668 of 106 Sqn is listed as coming down at Oulins, 3km N.E. of Anet, on July 7/8th. This is the same area as quoted for the photo on flickr. The target was the St. Leu D’Esserent flying bomb storage dump. 29 Lancasters and 2 Mosquitos lost – 14% of the force. And they wanted French ops to count as 1/3 of a normal operation!

It’s definitely a Lancaster, but maybe not G-H equipped. There were a few experimental raids flown at around this time, but it may just be displaying the daylight recognition markings that were also used in the summer of 1944.

Blimey, you’d a’ thought they’d have removed the Schräge Musik from that Fox Moth before using it for joy riding! 😮