wasnt down in the South East by any chance was it Tony ?.I know of a couple of people who have had unwanted visitors recently and aviation related material has gone missing.

I think it is a good policy if you have a valued collection or a stores of aviation related materail keep the number of visitors or people in th eknow to a limited number.there seems to be a lot of this sort of theft going on at the moment.

In our old workshops we had unwanted visitors and stuff went missing since our move we dont advertise our exact location and keep it down to specific invited visitors only so we can narrow down in future any problems or unwelcome visitors.

Artists wanted.

Hi guys
I am looking for the budding artists or cartoonists amongst you.With our past links with the RBL Spit etc we have a good contact for decent quality tea shirts and sweat shirts and I thought that a good way to start some fund raising was with a T shirt and sweat shirt for the project.I think we need either a nice three view or something along the lines of a cartoon of the Whirlwind but it has to be something we can have permission to reproduce and not infinge anyones copyright.
So open to suggestions and offers for a logo or drawing or cartoon to go onto items to fund raise and that can go around the shows with perhaps a stand raising funds for the project.People are more likely to spend a tenner on a decent quality T shirt than throw a tenner into a bucket of course the project does not benifit as much with the T shirt or Sweat shirt but its money in the materials pot !!!.

Of course anyone out there who would like to throw a tenner into the pot just let me know or indeed if there is someone who would like to donate more in sponsorship for the project ?.Please PM for details.

Hi
I think from memory, at the time of the incident they were flying typhoons, not whirlwinds.

The replica (263) HE one side and (137) SF on the other sounds good.
But to me, it should be just roundels & fin flash, to remember all the units who flew & worked on the whirlwind.
cheers
Jerry

We have not got as far as this yet but my own personal thoughts are a general scheme for the period as carried by the Whirlwinds.But whatever I feel it would be good to in some way recognise our good Friend Shed man.Ray put an awfull lot into bringing the Whirlwind back to life and I think we should also recognise that without his inspiration that perhaps we would not be contemplating what we are now and not only a memorial to the guys who flew the whirlwind and the ground crews but o Ray also.I am not sure as yet how best to do this but I also think that if we represent an aircraft that was named and there where from memory 11 of them that the suggestion that we go with the “Yeovil” named aircraft has a lot of merit.I think representing the plain coloured Prototype or the hack G-AGOI or an unbuilt aircraft serial raises all sorts of issue’s in itself.

There are a number of things in the pipeline at present I currently cant go into to much detail on but it involves two crash sites where substantial remains could exist and we should therefore not discount the possibility of pulling enough material to justify using the ID of an aircraft remains recovered.

So now we have gone all round the houses and still not got a definitive answer so I suggest we wait until we have metal cut and the project well under way then we look at the merits of it being either one aircraft or another.There is techinialy I suppose enough material from Steves recovery in Scotland to raise an identity but we shall see what happens and leave it at that for now.

Likewise we have various bits and pieces aviation related that would do nicely for fund raisers for the Whirlwind etc.Perhaps we should organise one up here in deepest darkest northern regions of the UK ?.Anyone up for that ?.Then if so we will have to find a venue and a date later in the year ?.

Thanks Beermat and good luck with the impending junior aviator.