Started with Airfix models in the late 50’s, PPL when I was 18, models, photography, got involved with Myles Robertson rebuilding a Moth Minor and Fox Moth fuselages, was with AHSNZ for a year or 2.
Now – haven’t flown in years (too busy riding motorbikes, which have always been a co-love), but have an avid interest in aviation history and gossip!

Just one question about the ‘plane itself.

Would it have been normal to leave the flaps down after the pilot had completed shut down and vacated? Or does it not matter?

Don’t think it matters. Im sure there is a step in the RH flap to help get into the thing.

Unfortunately it is a fact of life. Episodes like this happen and, if they have been recorded, will probably be shown. Not looking at the shots won’t make it not happen or go away – perhaps I’m cold and clinical, but I see no offense in these clips. I realise they show tragedy and have seen clips involving people I have known and liked, but seeing clips of their demise doesn’t leave me fuming to remove all evidence that the event ever happened. – it just leaves me feeling sad.

What is it with the Aussies burying stuff? 😀

In New Zealand, it’s a case of buried steam locomotives!
About 15 have been dug up from various sites around the country, where they were often used as river embankment stabilisation fill, most dumped in the 1920’s but some from the 1950’s as well!
Mind you, they’re still looking for the Boeings under North Head……

Well P3351(Tim Wallis’s Hurri) may have served in the Battle of France, but for the BoB….
“All was going well until, in the early hours of Sunday 21st July 1940, Alf Scott flying P3351 misjudged the runway and undershot, landing heavily. The undercarriage subsequently collapsed and the aircraft tipped on its nose. It was not a good night for the Squadron as three Hurricanes were damaged (including another by Scott) and all were put aside to be collected by the repair people.

As the Battle of Britain raged P3351 was sent for repairs.By early September, fitted with a new engine, she was transferred to 32 Squadron at Acklington”

http://www.nzfpm.co.nz/article.asp?id=hurricane

So, apart from being a substantially rebuilt aircraft, it seems P3351 missed out on the BoB…….

I started on Airfix back in the late 50’s…..and I think I finished on an Airfix kit 5 yrs ago, when I decided my eyesight was to bad for modelling, gave it all up and sold my “for a rainy day” collection of 250 kitsets!

Oh and all of the original DR-1’s????????

One survived in the Berlin Air Museum until it was bombed during the War. It was not among the survivors that ended up in Poland.