Stuart,

I have to disagree with the above statement, among other things the applicant must be able to prove that the target aircraft is safe to recover.

Some years ago we applied to do a recovery on a crashed Battle; the permit was refused on the basis that the available records stated that the aircraft had been on a War patrol. Those two words sank us without trace, the MOD took the line that the aircraft may have been fully armed and consequently the site may have contained unexploded bombs, we could not prove otherwise.

Regards

Eric

Were’nt all of the BoB A/C that have been dug/recovered “on patrol” or armed? what about all the bombers from all major protagonists, most of them will have their guns armed if not bombs aboard.

With hindsight the use of the word “formality” in connection with any form of beaurocracy was wrong, but if I can remember back half a year, I think the thrust of my argument,was, that if ownership lies with anyone else other than the MOD, it lies with the landowner,permit or no permit.

Is it too early to mention the pikies?

It’s ok, I’ve got a licence ;actually its a dog licence, with the word “dog” crossed out ,and the words “survival knife” written in, in crayon (with acknowledgments obviously)

My one and only purchase, was a dingy survival knife (with a cork handle), I reckon that it has been deactivated, as it is now incapable of floating!.. (although no paper work to support this claim was available…)

It was probably an early example of “dumbing down”, as the roman numerals beyond X are very confusing (!!) ,and you still hear people that ought to know better saying,” the Spitfire vee b” blah blah;

Either that ,or the only person to have a full set of letter stamps was Ellor, and when he went to the US (to over see Packards production) ,he took them with him (although unused), leaving Rolls Royce in a pickle; they were then forced to buy a new set of stamps (from Halfords probably) and the rest is history!! (who says revisionism can’t be fun)

Hmmm. I’ve had offers to be paid to go away…

You never know. 😉

You got my note then…….(only kidding James)

Aforementioned seat passed through my care earlier this year; might be piston provost or firefly, or even vampire, but unfortunately ,not Spitfire.

I note that the “local council” in this case is cotswold district; if the cotswold’s aren’t NIMBY central, than I don’t know where is!

Manston, the A/C noise is probably the root of the problem, but so infrequent that any noise pollution recorder, might have a very long wait, to capture consistently high levels, therefore the council planning dept has chosen to enforce the “original use” permission ,in order to curtail activities.

As I said before, there are those people that move into an area ,specifically to stop what ever it is/was that made their houses affordable in the first place.

Once accomplished, (after endless letter writing to the council ,their MP,the CAA, etc) they stand to make a big profit; it is suprising the number of these people about, and how quickly they band themselves together, into “action groups”