Please Sir! please sir! I’m left handed, so may I swap the overalls and flask hands please?! 😀 And I’m not surprised at the price difference, being in the transport game myself. So roughly when are you looking? Just so’s I can work out if I can come do a bit

Not 100% but if it all works out within a couple of months.I know for cert it wont be end of May or early June as I am over in Malta so either before or just after.A lot to plan if it all works out and the finer details for its destination but all wil be revealed.

I have now had it confirmed by a couple of different sources including one at Westlands apparantly circa 1960 the aircraft remains got dug up and scrapped loacly.Also as a matter of interest the photo of G-AGOI taken out side the hanger is today part of a lager hanger and that area is under a roof !!!!

Apparantly one engine was used for some sort of test purposes and then scrapped the other went to a local ATC unit.Any info on who this might be would be helpfull.There is also apparntly somewhere a museum that has the rear end of a perigrine and supercharger assembly ??.

Still no nearer the location of the privately owned rear bit of Whirlwind fished out by a trawler said to be in Cornwall(its a big place)

On other fronts good progress being made with the influx of drawings,photo’s and info please guys anything you find in your photo albums etc related to Whirlwind Fighter we would be most interested.

Still trying to track down one of the elusive 1/32 scale models if anyone has one.Very usefull to mark off the areas we have.

Final ask for this post does anyone have contact with who ever has our dear friend Shed mans project stuff.I understand his cockpit is somewhere near Norwich if anyone can confirm but is the project stuff with it or does his family have it as we are sure some of the material he had would be invaluable to us building the aluminium one.Any contact leads can be sent PM to me and will not be publicised .

Many Thanks TA.

Lance if you are still out there the gauge may also have a 6A number such as 1007 or 1008 or even possibly 327FG or 328FG
if it does let me know and I will PM an offer on your other email address with that well known emporium you occasionaly frequent.(not that infrequently though).

Ta very muchly

I think I know what its off but it depends how glowing it is and how much you want for it !!!!

Dear CIG Argentinian Military

Give it twelve months there is so much confusion in th UK over what to keep and what to scrap that they will have got rid of everything and all the forces in the Malivinas will have been shipped back to Europe to support operations there and in the ever expanding troubles in all the other Arab nations.

Also with the cost of fuel in the UK the MOD will not be able to afford to fill the tank on a Landrover let alone a warship.

[QUOTE=Deryck;1710834]Hi Cees, No, not back yet, I think another month might see the snow melted!

I am surprised that Vince gave you a hard time with the Heritage crap. As I understand it he recently acquired the 8 or 9 surplus Bolys from CWH. They will just quietly rot away in his field. There are not a lot of customers for them. I still think we (NAFM) should grab at least a couple while they are available.

Might I ask is it because th eman is hard to deal with or is it the price he is asking for them and the problems with getting them ou tof Canada or a combination of all three ?. I know a few years back the museum in Malta managed to get a Swordfish project from Canada without to much hassle.

tremors in Oakey

Hey Old Spitty

heard rumours of earth tremors in Oakey that have turned out to be 22 Forum members with shovels looking for buried Spitfires.But that they are just dumping all the other aircraft they find on the surface as they dont want them !!!!