my point is that individual aircraft recoveries should not necessarliy be viewed in isolation as outcomes may have a bearing on future recoveries. It seems to me that had the other desert recovery have been bought to the intended conclusion, then the museum may have been more open to an attempt to recover the Maryland – as a memorial to the men and exploits of the Desert Air Force in general and to Adrian Warburton in particular – which by association also commemorates all the RAF pilots who were based in Malta.
Whilstever the other recovery remains in limbo, I can’t imagine that the Museum’s trustees would even countenance another desrt recovery/
Given that Spitfires and Stirlings (or substantial parts thereof) can be built from scratch, I would have thought that the recreation of the missing parts was not beyond the wit of man. Incidentally in the pictures there appear to be buildings – or are they the tents of the Italian team?
And yes – I would have preferred if the resources used to recover the airframe from the Goodwin Sands had been used by a museum with RAF in it’s title to recover a previously extinct aircraft type used by the RAF in the early/mid-war period. No disdain in that.
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