This thread shows me for the first time just how useful google earth can be:)
If any rare variant Meteor, or even the Syrian Mk8 that scored the PR Canberra is to be recovered from this airfield then perhaps this is a mission needing the support of the Air Attache at the British Embassy…………..
But only 1 potential Spitfire outside on this airfield although I seem to remember that a year or so ago Syrian spitfires were discussed here and mention was made of their 1960s location – has anybody with the skills tried to find that spot on google earth I wonder????

It may well be a museum but the impression I cherish the most from my childhood visits in the 1970s is that the aircraft should appear in an approximation of their NATURAL environment which is in fact a typical RAF hanger or for those hung from the ceiling some attempt at a sky background or the crashed examples should look like they are on a lakebed…………. All display buildings should be genuine operational RAF designs rather than fancy name concepts.
Duxford is so wonderful because it has that period operational station feel almost everywhere except the American hanger.
Hendon supposedly presents the highlights of the history of the RAF which is best done using the wonderful rich heritage of RAF architectural traditional building designs wherever possible. Aside from toilets and fire control systems, its not just the aircraft which should document RAF functions and achievements, all of the buildings should too.Any new buildings built should use updated plans of a relevent appropriate landmark RAF design

I also liked the cheerful green Irish colours, its a shame the owner tired of this refreshingly different authentic livery. Great pic from Mark12:)

amazing photo of what looks like a very lightweight stripped out fuselage or movie prop !
What with the sole support of 2 wooden trestles,apparent lack of glazing & belly skin/bomb doors and loose nose fabric it only looks fit for pigeons to dine inside……..

This one looks like more than just a dataplate:)
I remember seein a photo of this fuselage painted up and on display maybe 10 years ago – judging from the gleaming metal (reskin?) does that mean that the original skins are too corroded to reuse after all those years in the Loch? Was this a fairly complete fuselage when first recovered or was it compressed after the impact of its crash?

Everything already mentioned is well worth a look,everywhere i turned some traces of OUR BRITISH MOTORISED HERITAGE and indeed I went inside 2 scrapyards, no planes but there were ex-military trucks amongst 1950s and 1960s stuff.Plenty of 1960s and 1970s British AEC,Leyland,Ford and Dodge trucks to be seen away from Valetta and all kinds of old cars from BMC and Ford including a green Austin A30 without front doors which is usually parked outside a radiator workshop along the line of the no 8 bus from the airport.
I can also add that amongst the buses are 34 ex-London Transport AEC Swifts built 1969-71 still in front line service,by far the longest serving built for London singledeckers ever and not far short of the Routemaster record.
I talked with bus drivers and car owners and even a back street mechanic -the old British stuff that Maltese cherish is a joy to see and its a pleasure to get an insight into the owner´s pride in vehicles which have often been in their family for 2 or 3 generations
I have just been to Malta with Easyjet last month, incredibly cheap trip with a very nice hotel b&b for £9 per night so theres no reason to stay at home in the snow and ice!
And here is one of those old London Transport AECs that ran around Lewisham on route 160 early 1970s,on the 268 from Golders Green -Hampstead mid 1970s and ending up finally in the summer of 1980 in the burbs of Ealing & Hillingdon on the 195 and 273.

I’ve seen the use of a Shack Griffon for this purpose before on Discovery or National Geographic. If I recall it was testing the glass on the Al-Burj skyscraper, the highest in Dubai if I am not mistaken…

I also saw this excellent program, you are not mistaken:)
I hope the building gets finished what with all the financing problems slowing the project now

2+2+2=9=assumption.
Why should they want to be put to further grief (assuning the original NoK are still alive) and if some living relative is found, why should they want matters disturbed after 60+ years..??

Andy, thankyou for speaking up for the official MOD line.

Why do you assume that any Christian with moral fibre would tolerate men who sacrificed their lives for their country being denied Christian burial once their bodies have been found and identified?

Without a funeral there is no proper closure.

Most Christian folk believe that a funeral with the body is the best way to say farewell and honour the memory of the departed, and even if no living relatives can be located that should shame the State of Maine into bringing home these 2 airmen who could not be found 60 years ago when they were lost
Few Christian folk would be happy having their own bones or the bones of their loved ones rotting in a lake being gawped at by divers and internet browsers.
This is a very rare example of a supposedly Christian community (State of Maine) denying honourable funerals for 2 men who made the ultimate sacrifice in full knowledge of where their bones lie abandoned and easily recovered.