Strange. My copy – Argus Books 1990 says £32.50 on the back cover.

I paid about a fiver remaindered IRRC.

So did mine!

Prices do vary, but generally over £150 for a copy seems the norm retail.

He is apparently working on a new edition.

I hadn’t realised the Aston books commanded such high prices either.

One I have is Kenneth West’s The Captive Luftwaffe from Putnam – I’ve seen them go for over £100 in good condition – even ex libris copies go for over £20 usually

Hi all,

The P38 on the beach proved that there are still interesting recoveries to be made as well as the major Wellington fuselage remains that were recovered a few years ago but have disspeared off the face of the earth (what’s the status on that).

Are there any possibilties still to be discovered?

Cheers

Cees

Several airframes in inaccessible bogs I beleive

Hi

I’ve heard that the Hawker Typhoon and P47 Thunderbolt share the same basic (bubble) canopy. Now this seems a bit strange but knowing that the Malcolm hood was a British/US joint project used on several types i didn’t want to just dismiss the idea.
Have any of you heard of this, can you confirm or deny.

Thanks

Ben

I’ve heard this many times – usually that it was ‘trialed’ in the UK. However, you just need to look at the two aircraft to see that whilst similar in shape, they are different – the P-47 being much wider IMO

Effectively what you want is a colour and a B+W photo of the same aircraft – or an aircraft from the same batch

Getting warmer! 🙂

Meant to say early 80s, not 90s! I’m away from home, so can’t look up any books etc – was it a Brough design?

And the fact that the RAFM scrapped some of these remains doesn’t count then?
🙁
Cees

Oh it does, but better than, say, the Boston recovered from Wales

Bloody tragic, the way RAFM leave that piled there doing nothing. 🙁

Less tragic than leaving it on the hill to be picked away by souvenier hunters and opportunists

Sources Ive read stated some of the ex RAF Neptunes were in use, Im hoping they are right and not just embelllished to make a nice story!

Falklands Neptunes were definitely the ex-US P2V-7s