G-APAC a deHavilland Chipmunk

Paul

Hi Chris,
Unfortunately there are very few sites that are anywhere me, most of the WW2 stuff is in the north and very inaccessible if not already gone. As for post war, Australia has a very small airforce and there are not that many crash sites – you have a much higher concentration in the UK.
Paul

Good luck with your recovery group merkle. I have to agree the jet crashes of the 50’s and 60’s will be ‘the new black’ when all possible WW2 aircraft have been recovered as peoples enthusiasm will not die just be channelled into something more obtainable. And after this period the number of crashes dwindles sharply – for instance how many crashes are there from the 90’s and 00’s that are worthy of a dig?
Paul

Jaguar Cockpit parts wanted

Hello all,
seeing that Merkle has had such great success and help in tracking down parts for his Canberra cockpit I thought that this could be a good time to pass my own begging bowl around. I don’t expect there will be too many Jaguar GR1 parts around but who knows.
Cheers Paul

The following items are required;
Bungee cords for the canopy closing mechanism (desperately need these)
Radar altimeter
Fuel contents indicator
Accelerometer
Weapon aiming mode selector panel
HUD control panel
HUD head pad
A few odd lamp lenses
Stop watch
ILS panel
Navigation system hand controller
IFF
Spare compass
Oxygen contents gauge
Voice recorder?
TACAN?

I don’t quite understand Phantom cockpits, I mean some people are able to aquire/sell them, others who are ‘in the know’ can’t rescue them when they are being destroyed and some have even had them taken back and scrapped. Is it different rules for different airframes?
Paul

My take on it is;
If they existed at least one person would have the forethought to have taken a camera with them and prove the existence, and;
“two planes with there wings folded and no tails” you still need a mighty big entrance and ramp to get an aircraft presumably on its wheels and folded wings into such a bunker and a fairly substantial door to close after them – that shouldn’t be too hard to find.
Paul

Hi Peter
This is part of an email an ex Jaguar pilot sent me and explains the film part of the PMD.
Paul

“The map was a standard 35mm slide transparency film with the standard
RAF half million scale low flying charts projected onto it. The computer
moved the film to the required position, and the transparency was
projected onto the rear of the map display glass, which was a fresnel
lens to reduce the distortion of the projection lens.