have a look in the central market in Riga – old airship sheds I believe?
🙂

I was one of the few original beta testers way long ago, and IL-2 1946 is still on my HD…

I’m in a pretty much inactive squad (61 ShAP) and I mainly fly the IL-2 🙂

Funny this should come up just after I’ve re-read the account by yourself Tangmere, in the BofB then & now, wasn’t it stated that no live ammunition was found among the wreckage of Percy Burtons Hurricane?

Lack of witnesses seems to be the main excu *ahem* reason for no other VC’s during the war for Fighter Command…
There are probably many many similar unrecorded acts of heroism that will never be known.

The middle and right windows look like frames plonked, for want of a better word, on the wall… the left one looks genuine as does the door…..
couldn’t be Northolt could it? The hangars there were elaborately camouflaged.

That would have been Hans Dietes? DB engined Buchon, famously flown with Black 6 off the wingtip of the BBMF Lancaster, with a Spitfire and Hurricane on the other side at North Weald around the same date, May 1995, probably the only time anything like that has been performed, has anyone got any photos of that event, I’m afraid I only have it on video.

I must find / trawl / scan some of my slides… I was at N Weald in 95 and vividly remember standing at the front of the crowd line right abreast the Lanc as it cranked up… I remember thinking ‘I hope that beastie doesn’t decide to shed a prop’… 🙂 funny the stuff that goes through your head…

It was a great display by all involved, and a great novelty to have the 109 formed up with the Lanc & Spit.

Is Hooton still allright? I saw a while ago they were selling their Hurricane FSM?

They had an open day 2 or 3 years ago but none since… any ideas on that?
I’m only 20 mins away from the place myself 🙂

anyway, back to the nitty gritty 😉 von Braun only went to the biggest chequebook because America was screwing UK for all the cash it could squeeze out of us 😉