As a professional, I’d hope he’s tell somebody..
-to give closue to the families of the people on board
-or to prevent a similar accident from happeniong in the future.

Too much to ask?

He was in all probability a conscript rather than a professional, but I know what you mean.

I watched the program several times a good few years ago, it seemed plausable, (if a little disappointing that his loss could be explained away so easily) but now I’m not too sure; you would think for example if he had seen the bombs hit an unidentified plane that he might have blurted something out to the rest of the crew, they would then be complicite in a cover up, and their silence as a whole crew is less likely.

The reality is that if GM’s plane is in the English channel, that is literally a drop in the ocean with regards to the Pacific, and that hasn’t been found

“The fact that they weren’t would seem to indicate that something at least was wrong with their navigation (or their instruments) or that this method of navigation wasn’t accurate enough for finding their target island. Presumably Earhart and Noonan would have been checking their position throughout the flight but when were they last able to get an accurate ‘fix’ on a land-mass during the 2,500 mile leg to Howland Island?”

Appologies for cherry picking CD; Presumably though the bain of all aeronautical navigation, the wind (both speed and direction) and its fluctuations, is a likely cause for this; it’s well known the havoc it reeked on those within bomber command, with regards to mission accuracy.

Found the forward locating disc, very bent, but looks to be 12″ dia, but I would think there is a rubber type lip that goes around it ,increasing the diameter; this hub is a four blade type with wooden blades and by comparison is much larger than a four blade spitfire, with a very large constant speed unit.

I would think that the size of the spinner would (in this case) be governed by the size of the hub, more than the expected frontal area of the engine.

Tony Hodge, is I believe the name of the chap, that bought it from me, and he was in contact with Dowty/Rotol, and so, (as my original post suggested) he might have additional information re the spinner.

One of our brethren, (I think his user ID is skyhigh) has/had a rotol hub from a coastal command Halifax (merlin engined); he’s also a bit of a Rotol enthusiast.

Just had a look at the members list, there isn’t one, might have been highflight or similar, any way his name is Tony; he might even have written a book on Rotol (or I’ve dreamt the whole lot)….. no hold on, it was me that sold him the hub; I used to have the alloy ring that locates the front of the spinner, I’ll have a look for that.

Often auctioneers run the bids up to somewhere near the reserve, it makes them look good, especially if they had a hand in valuing the lot, as the seller might not be that happy if it fell way short; not a bad price for the engine, couldn’t see the damage mentioned, and it looked pretty complete.

Moggy,makes a good point, that a remake takes nothing away from the original, but it can corrupt the truth, and if done for cinematic purposes, (love interest) and or ignorance, then that will be detrimental.

Pobjoy Pete’s post re First light, is interesting, because if they had a budget the size of a “hollywood” type film they could have concentrated more on detail, and fleshed out the characters (as indeed they all were) and made an even better film than it already is.

The fact of the matter is, that there are still dozens of real life acts of heroism that still haven’t had their story told, why put the effort into a remake, when you could tell the story of Paddy Mayne, or Sailor Malan, or dozens more.

Probably a 500 (trophy) ;there are unconfirmed reports that he took part in the scrambles (motorcross) events held at Ramsden Heath in Essex.