will she be restored as a civvie DC3? Thats surely the only one in Europe?

isn’t the DC3 going to be restored as a civilian aircraft in wartime makings – ie camouflaged but with civilian registration in large letters underlined with red/white/blue stripes. There were a lot of DC3s based at Donny during the war

May be some time though as the fuselage skin seemed paper-thin in places

Do17

A bit more information – don’t know how long it’s been on the website though

http://www.aircraftconservation.org/aircraft-restoration-projects/dornier-17-conservation-project

re mmmm

interesting dilemma isn’t it

do we want them to spend the money on the Do17 – or would we prefer for them to use what money they have to fund say

– completion of the Hampden restoration
– restoration of the Brigand fuselage and fund a search in Malaysia for some tail/wing/nacelle/undercarriage material
-restoration of the stored Ventura
-restoration of the LVG CVI
-restoration of the Farman
-support for the Whitley project
-support for the Stirling Project and confirm or disprove the Russian Stirling
-support for the DeH Hornet project
-support the Assault Glider Project (a Hamilcar to complete the set…..)
-collect any available Wildebeast/Vincent material for a rebuild
-research and fund the build of some wings for the Wallace
-fund the reproduction of a Siskin using the available wing sections
-(insert your own pet project here)

all of these would be pretty unique projects as well

Surely its a reproduction, using some original pieces from, and the identity of, an original. Would a Mona Lisa recreated from a flake of original paint be regarded as the original – I think not………………..

Does that matter – it’s simply down to the individual – it certainly floats my boat – on which point, would it be possible to reproduce one of the Spits with floats??

This “Same old, same old” argument happens every time a “new” Spitfire comes off the production line nowadays as the starting point becomes more and more fragmented. Perhaps we now need a secretive group of Spitfire Police – to judge provenance – like they have for Monet paintings as the recent BBC programme showed

so did they cart the stone around with the plane?

the stone in the Leeming photos looks very yellow and Cotswold-y rather than the grey gritstone you associate with t’mills oop north

(edit -looking at the plaque it looks as if they did…..well at least my stone recognition skills are up to scratch)

If they ar ethinking of using the wing sections and other parts from the scrap yard they are about 11 months to late it has been totaly wiped clean off the face of the map.Here in Malta (over here at present)we have the two hastings cockpit sections and a couple of bits in storage.An american gentleman bought some of the other stuff (and raised all the prices to ridiculous leveles),heritage Malta has the part remains of the sea hawk (god knows why its is beyond redemption).
I never saw any wings in the scrap yard in all the many hours I spent in there
the only Hastings parts where Two cockpit sections badly knocked about and the remains of two wing sections with the engine nacelles on and undercarriage in place but not what you would describe as either a centre section or an outer wingas they had been chopped very randomly.

I there fore wonder where these major wing sections are as I dont think they are coming from here ?.I will make some enquiries tomorrow and post back .

Mike E
http://www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

If past experience is anything to go by, expect this thread to be moderated shortly. In the meantime their latest newsletter – February – seems to suggest that the required sections have already been dissembled and loaded into a shipping container. One wonders whether the “American gentleman” was actually Canadian……