AFAIK the Hurricane has been on display at Hendon since the early eighties. I have seen it when I visited Hendon the first time in 1987 (and it wasn’t the only one having been there many times, I hope to be going again next month). This wreck in itself serves as a very powerful monument to the sacrifice the “few” made during the Battle of Britain.

Cees

Shot in the dark

The only one I could find is the next:

May 4th, 1945 Operations near the Kiel Peninsula
Tempest V 486 NZ squadron JN877 engine faillure, crash landed near Satrup. Pilot injured and taken POW claimed at first by flak but later claimed shot down west of Barsinghausen by a JG1 pilot flying a He162. Is this near Kiel?

Without a date, year or precise location it is almost impossible to pinpoint which aircraft it was.

Cees

Darn, I am not paying attention today, the lid is actually part of the filmcassette as fitted inside the guncamera. 😮

Cees

This is beginning to look like a Spitfire-fetish convention 😀

Keep them coming

Cheers

Cees

Hello Herbert,

The undercarriage indicator 5c/1008 was used in the Halifax. The photograph on the right shows part of the bombloading system as I have often seen during Lancaster recoveries in Holland. IIRC the undercarriage indicator of the Lanc is different compared to the one as shown in your photograph. But it was usual in wartime service to fit whatever was available after instruments had become unservicable.

I think 628al could provide further information on that.

Hope this helps at least a bit.

Cheers

Cees

XB-TOX was TA717 and was ‘recovered’ around 1979

See:

http://www.mossie.org/TA717.htm

Any news about her?

Cheers

Cees