Plus of course no airworthy Meteors in the UK (one in the USA though). Spit, Mossie, Lancaster and Hurricane all available in North America too.

Not sure TIGHAR has ever ‘planted’ anything, but who knows? And a book that makes a convincing case that Miller [‘s aircraft] went down in the Channel would be about as useful as a book that tells you the Tower of London is in London!! Well duh – where else did the aircraft crash and no-one noticed?

Janie.

WW1 records are few and far between (I see he was there June to October 1918): there’s what looks like a War Diary held by the National Archives (AIR 29/604) but from past experience this will contain only a potted history of pre-ww2 events.

My suggestion would be to contact the RAF Museum, which might hold his flying log book; ditto Leeds University Liddle Collection. You might also find records of some of the other units he was with (5 School of Aeronautics; Armament School, Uxbridge; No.3 Fighting School) but again from past experience it’s usually the case that those records don’t survive.

Best hope would seem to be that you could recover a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp (a reasonably unusual engine to find in the Channel) and maybe link any serial numbers to Miller’s UC-64. But finding one based on charts of where the aircraft’ last reported position, plus the currents over the last 70-odd years (based only on an estimated position) PLUS the major possibilities of stuff being moved around by trawling activity over 70-odd years makes it all a bit hit-and-miss. Smaller area than the Pacific though, so presumably we won’t be seeing a ‘UK VII’ expedition before this group of jokers manages to (without any evidence) declare what actually happened…

Thanks for posting: just watched them all and it looks like it will be interesting to watch developments.

Breaking Bad did a good job of killing off key characters…

Small anti-dazzle panel matches the nose of WL360 whilst at Yatesbury, as does what appears to be a replacement silver access panel just visible cutting into the anti-dazzle on the stbd side, so I’d say it still has the nose of ‘360.