Does anyone know what’s happening now that Cosford are getting XV249?

Airfix got it right 30+ years ago (Although I always wondered if the wasp was on both sides of the nose as they depicted)

Wonderful news. Now,can anyone tell me if the outer engine angles out in the same way as the inner? 🙂

My initial thought was ‘They are going to have a heck of a job keeping the seagulls, pidgeons and starlings off her!!”

Good luck to them.

One reason is the obvious anti-terror one (and preventing recce by air for ground-based terrorists) but another reason is the prevention of ambush advertising (Ballooons, towed banners, airships etc) – the restrictions on advertising around the Olympic venues to only IOC approved sponsors is actually quite draconian.

“…but I have wondered if that Licence application was ‘pour découragez les autres’ rather than any attempt to seriously recover it themselves.”

As I pointed out earlier in this thread, Tighar is NOT in the business of “seriously recovering anything” themselves. They’ll be the first to tell you that their expertise is not in the area of physical recovery but in, if they were to get the chance, recognizing and working with legitimate conservators. Their interest is in seeing the airplane preserved in whatever form is most appropriate, not in seeing it parted out, converted into a Reno racer or sold to a warbird broker.

So who sets them up as the arbiter of what is most appropriate, other than themselves?

DaveF68 et al.

The previous posts about a Defiant in Loch Ness came from a Troll who used to frequent this site posting about aircraft in water. He used various logins and at one stage posted as a female diver.

He delighted in starting rumour to get the “aviation anoracks” excited.

If you read the previous threads you will see he cited my work on identifying Defiant losses in the area as the source of the claim.

I have previously listed the known Defiant losses and missing Defiants in the area. I have also listed the known and suspected aircraft that crashed into the Loch all from research to confirm or deny the “heard it from a friend who heard it from a man in our pub”.

Hi Ross,

Thanks for responding. I heard about the ‘Defiant in Loch Ness’ story long before I ever found this forum, or heard of ‘Dive the World’. I beleive it was in the same location as Ceees mentions. It was definitely in connection with East Fortune’s aquistion of the the Beaufighter and the then curator being asked about future projects.

Of course that could have come from here originally!

I think, after seeing some of the recoveries from Norwegian waters in recent years, we all have dreams of the murky lochs of Scotland holding such treasures! I think because of the depth and volume of Loch Ness (To the un-initiated, you could fit the entire population of China into the volume occupied) it holds that ‘Oooh, there could be something down there’ fascination.

Do you know if anything else has been identified there? (I found your previous post that mentions a Stranraer, but the AB book lists that one as Damaged Beyond Repair, which doesn’t suggeest abandoned or sunk)

I think that it would be a good idea if after completion the Defiant was placed on Loan to East Fortune to represent the use of the Defiant in Scotland.

And we can get the IWM to swap us the 602 Spitfire for the XVIe…..!