To be fair the Chinese P-61 is now indoors. Though its sporting quite the most horried paintjob to ever befall an aircraft.

But to keep the thread on topic. Great that the Typhoon is getting some recognition overseas: Lots of Canadian pilots flew it. Sure it will be great, sure it will be back soon and I am sure it will be looking better than ever.

Could be that those two trees are just dead. There does seem to be a lack of small twigs and branches which hints at this, plus the fact that the conifer -and the sheds in the background- seem to be untouched.

Just out of curiousity, what other O/400 parts survive in the UK? With the current regime’s WWI obsession, I wonder if the RAF Museum would be interesting in commissioning a replica incorporating any surviving original parts at some point.

The RAF Museum website has a little rundown of what they do have of the HP O/400 right here!

Just ambling through the web and I came across this site selling downloads of various diagrams and plans of experimental aircraft.

On there, about halfway down the page is ‘Convairs nuclear-powered Saro “Princess” ‘
http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocair.htm
To me this looks like a contender for the project Pat Monk was working on, perhaps?

And judging by the various other nuclear aircraft scattered about this site Convair was quite prolific in designing nuclear aircraft schemes.

Yes, it was a structural failure. But it wasn’t a wings-dropping-off-mid-flight sort of structural failure indicative of poor design that Newforest’s initial reply had suggested (whether he meant to or not). The failure happened only happened due to a catastrophic and entirely avoidable mistake during refueling that stressed the wing beyond its design parameters.

Grown-ups don’t throw insults about. Just sayin’. :eagerness:

Blohm & Voss BV155B v2 at the NASM

Mitsubishi Ki 46 Dinah at Cosford. Might be another in new Zealand?

Nakajima B5N Kate is represented by a derelict centre section that might still be in the UK. Might be another held in NZ?

The NASM kawasaki Ki-45 Nick is just the fuselage I believe.

A partial replica of a Kawasaki Ki 48 Lily in China

Nakajima Ki 84 Frank in Japan.

Mitsubish G4M Betty is represented bt the cockpit and tailcone at NASM, a mostly complete but wrecked one recovered and now in a US aircraft museum somewhere. Plus there is the restored fuselage in Japan.

Yokosuka D4Y Judy is represented by an inline engined D4Y-2 version held in Japan and another as a radial engined D4Y-3 version (but with a US engine).

In one aircraft magazine a couple years back there was an article on quite a substantial center section Nakajima Ki-44 Tojo in China I think. There was a picture of it too. Can’t kind anything about it now.

Mitsubishi G3M Nell wreck on New Britain And that Ki-49 Helen still in the jungle in Papua New Guinea.

If you want a listing on what is out there then PreservedAxisAircraft.com is a good place to start. (Nice site but it does leave some questions. It list a Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sally in Thailand! Would love to see a picture of that if it exists)

A generalisation is that on the German side there are a still good numbers of Bf 109, radial engined Fw 190, and Fi 156 Storch. For Japan A6N Zeros and Ki-43 Georges are still in reasonable numbers. Anything else Axis is likely to be very rare if it remains at all.

Allied aircraft?
Just one complete Hawker Typhoon.
Very few Hawker Tempest Vs left.
A single Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator…

Could it be, perish the thought, that the sponsor is controlling the release of images, from here-on, in order to ensure their logo/banner is prominently displayed? Some are suggesting this to be the case.

Could there be an impending book deal? I am sure there were similar issues regarding photographs an aircraft restoration posted here(?) not long ago. Surely a book on the Do 17 recovery would help the RAFM recover at least some of the cost of this expensive operation (and drum up more publicity).