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May 13, 2011 at 11:46 pm in reply to: HP42 crash in Berkshire?? #1044585

Ian Wheeler
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Useful list from Fatcivvy. Thanks. ‘My’ photo goes on show soon and we’ll see if any local knowledge turns up to back up the yarn.

April 24, 2011 at 10:41 am in reply to: Horsa Gliders Into Homes #1073166

Ian Wheeler
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Cholsey Horsa rescue pictures

Ian, can you post some of the pics please??

Roger smith.

The only scans I have today are the pics that got into Fly Past, which I have put into an album called Cholsey Horsa. There are many more but the task will take time which I’m short of right now. By all means chivvy me: you should be able to email direct to me if I set up my profile correctly.

April 24, 2011 at 10:33 am in reply to: HP42 crash in Berkshire?? #1073170

Ian Wheeler
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Maybe I’ve been shot a line…

The photo is 90 deg out and that’s not a hedge, but the edge, of a piece of tape on the neg or the edge of a part frame (last)if the strip has reached it’s end or indeed the corner of a building.
In my view it’s a normal pic of an HP.42 sedately flying along and “snapped” too late.

John

All sound reasoning. My source may be shooting me a line in that case.:rolleyes:

April 23, 2011 at 10:24 am in reply to: HP42 crash in Berkshire?? #1074452

Ian Wheeler
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I had considered the orientation of the picture – and will go look again. I don’t recognise the ‘horizon’ from anywhere around here, unless it’s a hedge.
Constructive thoughts, gents.

April 20, 2011 at 11:15 pm in reply to: HP42 crash in Berkshire?? #1077237

Ian Wheeler
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Why don’t you post the photo, which may give some assistance in answering your question, Ian.

Good thinking, Batman, although I doubt that the photo will cast much light.
Thanks to all who responded. My own Googling on the topic made me wonder if the story was wholly true. (I like the Hannibal theory.)

April 18, 2011 at 2:59 pm in reply to: "post war " Horsas #1080464

Ian Wheeler
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Beside the cockpit and fuselage in Mosquito aircraft museum, and the MKII in Middle Wallop. does any one has information about Horsa parts that were found long after war, being used as shed or something like that
Isn’t there a fuselage at Pegasus Bridge?

(At further risk of posting the same reply ad nauseam…)
I was slightly involved in the recovery of the Cholsey Horsa and can perhaps assist. I took numerous pics and wrote the article that was printed in Fly Past.
My information is that the salvaged remains were purchased from the Mosquito Museum, to be used as a basis for the Pegasus Bridge replica.

April 18, 2011 at 2:54 pm in reply to: Horsa Gliders Into Homes #1080467

Ian Wheeler
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This one surfaces here occasionally, but it’s always good to see again!

I don’t know about still surviving, but one was retrieved from a garden at Cholsey in Oxfordshire about ten years ago. They’d be pretty hard to spot by now, as people will have slowly extended the dwelling round the Horsa…

Adrian

I may be duplicating this response but…
I was slightly involved in the recovery of the Cholsey Horsa and can perhaps assist. I took numerous pics and wrote the article that was printed in Fly Past.

April 18, 2011 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Glider Fuselage #1080589

Ian Wheeler
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Somebody built a cottage around a Horsa fuselage section at Cholsey in Oxfordshire (now collected for a museum, can anyone add where?), so a Hadrian behind a pub is no sillier than that…

Adrian

I was slightly involved in the recovery of the Cholsey Horsa and can perhaps assist. I took numerous pics and wrote the article that was printed in Fly Past.
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