David, exactly; they could do no worse than a more regularily updated version of wrecks and relics, afterall Ken Ellis was aware that said airframe was in my possession.

That’ll be why I had to drop everything, and drive into the wilds of Cambridgeshire one Saturday about 8 years ago, to collect the Blackburn B2 fuselage that had passed into the hands of a scrap man (including all of the paperwork and an oil painting!) that was scheduled for the chop as the property had been sold, and the new owners wanted shot of it, (and all the old furniture piled on top of it)

The scrap man (who obviously had a heart) had tried for weeks to place it, but no one was interested; no one, that is that he knew, I dare say dozens would have taken it on if they were aware of the airframe and it’s plight; isn’t that where the “co- ordinating and enabling” comes into play?

Malcolm, you are of course right about the need to protect the individual, but regardless of the small print I personally haven’t seen any action from the BAPC.

There is a case to be made for bringing the plight of various airframes to a wider audience, just circulating the details around existing museums, isn’t enough; everyone has to start somewhere, many of these at risk A/C have been saved (or else might have been) by someone outside the loop.

Merlin Pete, shall be your guide Ross, as I believe he was involved in just such a conversion.

Do those inlets really go all the way to the front, angle up, turn round and go back, and it still produces 1000hp?

Ok thanks for the clarification Mark, I would say that in the picture I posted there appears to be two windows, one just behind her above the engine nacelle.

I would have thought given that a larger window would have compromised the longeron /stringe,r that it would have been reinforced essentially by adding a window “frame” and that the subsequent plating over wouldn’t be an attempt to reinstate structural integrity, but purely something to keep the light out, bearing in mind it was (in the great scheme of things) only a relatively short flight.

Probably best to read my previous post, where I made the suggestion that the patch, (the original patch) would have been riveted onto the airframe without the need of stiffeners, and that looking at the size of the original patch and the size of the real window, in my view would have probably been affixed directly to the skin; at no time do I refer to the mangled piece of wreckage that may or may not have been recovered by tiggar, but (in my non expert view) was never (that’s never, not probably never) attached to the Electra.

Probably?

It would appear there is not one chance in a billion that that sheet of post-1943 aluminum was ever riveted to Earhart’s aircraft. ‘Probably’ doesn’t even enter into it.

Moggy