Any idea why the Spitfire and Hurricane failed to turn up?

I’ve not heard anything official, but crosswinds at CBY may have played up. Baby Spits and Hurricane are limited to 10kts X wind and big spits 15kts.
Hth

Is there an ID for the remains, is it another battle of france survivor?

Same aircraft…

In the end, well done for a largely succesful recovery – I just don’t want another Halifax, but maybe the engineer in me just hates seeing broken aeroplanes 🙂

I agree jag rigger. I know some will think its more replica than real if its restored/remanufactured, but I seem to think more people would prefer to see a complete aircraft than a total wreck, Mosquito KA114 springs straight to mind….

I don’t know about the aircraft specifically, but they wouldn’t have been ‘welded shut’. More likely is that the door actuators removed and replaced with fixed struts or retained and the system inhibited (locking collars fitted, bomb bay door handle guarded etc).
Hope that helps.

I watched the Ch4 documentary about recreating the dams raid, where they built a dam in Canada and used a DC4 as the delivery aircraft.
On the show that showed post war trials with an A-26 Invader dropping a sphere at high speed. Heights of 30 feet were mentioned, and 350kts. I wonder what led the Americans to do these trials at such a low altitude.
For those that didnt see it, the sphere bounced once before taking the empennage off the aircraft causing it to pitch nose down, spars fail and then hit the water, killing the crew. Any more details?

True, but it still won’t make me like the man.

Anyone who promotes our heritage, and in particular our aviation heritage has my vote. You don’t need to like him, I doubt you even know him (apart from what you read in our venomous press).

Niels, have they repainted it at all? Any pictures?