Karl Kjarsgaard for bringing up Halifax NA337,
The Yorkshire Air Museum for reconstructing a Halifax based around HR792
For Peter Thomas for preserving the cockpitsection of PN323

And further
Doug Arnold
Peter Arnold (Spitfire Guru)
David Tallichett
Charles D’Arby
Rob Greinert
Russ Snadden
Tim Routsis
Nic Grace
Harry van der Meer

You know why,
This list is not complete of course, over to you
Cheers

Cees

Thanks for the link Andy,

Somehow those photo’s of a restoration are very intrigueing, they really tell a story how something can be brought back from dereliction.

Amazing

Cees

AFAIK, the tailrudder is/was originally fitted to night fighter ace Friedrich Karl Müller´s Me 109 G10, in whose colours she´s been painted.

Chris,

The original rudder was offered to him by Müller but it was not airworthy so a new one was built en painted exactly like the original rudder.

HTH

Cees

Hmm talking about destruction of capital

Cees

Hi Cees – How are you – we haven’t chatted for a while – what are you up to at present?

The surviving parts ar large chunks of fuselage and the empenage I believe in Victoria somewhere – but the plans are the key and with todays technology they would facilitate a pretty good replica.

Regards
John P

Hi John,

I’ve been dabbling allong here and there nothing major at present, we were supposed to recover the engine and prop of a Heinkel 115 today but was cancelled due to the weather (yes, it is winter here, finally). You have been up to a lot judging from all the magazines where a certain Mr Parker seems to have taken over all pages, keep it up :p .

Oh well, back on topic, as the CA-15 is a very important type for the Aussie aircraft industry, a reconstruction would be very much wanted.

Cheers

Cees

To be honest I’m not an expert on Bomber Command / 8th Air Force tactics, but is it possible that the reason why Dresden was bombed was to prove that low level incendiary bombing of “combustible” targets was a viable alternative to high altitude bombing missions over Japan. I understand that several high ranking US staff members transferred to the Pacific from the 8th around the time of the bombing of Dresden. Or was Dresden bombed because it was a German city and therefore a target – one of many.

I don’t want to go into the ethics of bombing or the bombing of ethics, it just good to know why.

Why Phillip, and then what?

These kind of threads tend to end in political discussions that can get out of hand easily, and what’s the point to get into that. Only for you interest or is there a greater good in this. Discussing this you cannot avoid the ethics of bombing or vice versa. And then we are back to square one etc. etc.

Cheers

Cees

Canadian built Lancasters (as per Duxfords example)

Don’t forget the Mk VII Lanc’s
Cees