Where have the two absolute pristine BMW 801 engines gone I spotted in one of the hangers at North Weald in 1998? They came from Russia I was told by one of the engineers present. I think it was the hanger where the Doug Arnold aircraft were stored in containers.

Cees

Hey Cees.
Probably against all common sense but I was able to back date the gear indicator to a Halifax by removing the black paint over the top bar of the T and removing the paint for the right side of the N

Good work Peter, AFAIK the undercarriage indicator of the Halifax and the Hunter are similar apart from the T (tail) or N (nose).

Cheers

Cees

This series gives some very good hands on experience about what crews experienced while flying the various aircraft types. I have a large number of these volumes and they are well thumbed and offer a very good investment as well as these are well sought after (especially the older volumes).

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Cees

What we do is: keep the interesting bits for display and/or reference available to restoration/reconstruction projects and scrap the rest to avoid it from falling into the “wrong” hands. The sold scrap also covers some of the costs of the recovery (hiring the digger etc.). Nothing else is sold.

My two cents

Cees

Hi Cees, any more details on that 177? How’s the Stirling, if there is some progress I might drop in saturday to update for VV. BW Roger

Roger,

No further visual progress on the Stirling just yet, I understand that Peter has been on holiday for some time, but in a few weeks further progress is being made I suspect.

The Heinkel 177 was reported on in a German magazine a few years ago (Jet & Prop I think) and a sonarimage was printed in the article and it clearly showed a Heinkel 177 with wings and engines and tail intact. Must be the recovery of the century. That’s all I know.

Cheers

Cees

I used to have one as well (Ian Foster got it now for his Halifax bomb-aimers panel), it’s fitted in the bomb-aimers compartment of the British bombers and on the top of the instrument panel of the Spit XIX. I always call it a camera control box.

Cheers

Cees

Elliott,

Is it stored outdoors?

By the way, you are sitting on the wrong side of the cockpit.

Cheers

Cees