Ok, on a serious note.

AFAIK local Maintenance Units (MU’s) were tasked with the recovery of aircraft wreckage (42MU being a famous one). They worked independent of the unit the aircraft came from and any wreckage recovered was collected and taken to scrapyards to be melted down for aircraft production.

Cees

I did make some brief enquiries but the Loch is looked after by Scottish Natural Heritage and it’s difficult to get any kind craft even a canoe on there. SNH don’t want anyone on there except if they are fishermen and the Loch being Scotlands national trout fishing center is very heavily policed.

Its FINS and not flippers. A flipper is a dodgy dolphin. 🙂

Ali

Ali,

In my book a fin is something at the back of an aircraft to hang a rudder onto or something stuck on the back of a fish.

Hey, I’m Dutch so shoot me! 😀 😀

Seriously, if there are any aircraft wrecks in the Loch it would be exciting to find out if they or other wrecks are still down there. Remember Loch Ness.

Good luck

Cees

FB

Is it true that Ken Ward did buy the Boulton Paul Type E Halifax tailturret?
If so, any news on that?

Cheers

Cees

There is nothing anywhere that says that a museum MUST be a static collection of artefacts. There are times and places for that, but I believe that by having a working exhibit it allows people to imagine what they would have been like much more easily. The Tank Museum at Bovingdon operates on this policy, the National Railway Museum at York also appreciates this.

Although I appreciate that there already a taxiable and a flyable Lancaster already operating in this country, there is also already another static example too. Perhaps the York could be restored to taxiing condition instead. 😀

And all this without mentioning a certain privately owned collection renowned for keeping things working!…. 😉

Good idea,

Perhaps something for Halifax HR792 at Elvington. SLowly turning over props at dispersal. That would be great. Although it would mean that fibreglass propblades would be flying all over the place.

Cees

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/fabric-from-aircraft-NO-LL251-July-1944_W0QQitemZ6638439448QQihZ012QQcategoryZ112473QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

LL251- Halifax 138 Sqd Special Duties?

Worth a couple of quid I reckon…

TT

p.s.

Googled to

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/TempsfordAircrewLost1944.html

Ditched in Med Coded NF-N on Operation Percy 19, France, 11/12 July 1944 –

F/O MA Farr Killed -commemorated at Runnymede.

TT

Thanks for the heads up Ben,

But this is not the stuff I’m usally after, more the nuts and bolts type of things

Cheers

Cees

Halifax cockpit project progress

Hi all,

In case you might think what that daft Dutch youngman is actually doing about that Halifax cockpit project. Here are some pics of progress made the past few weeks.

1. pilot overhead panel (made today with an ex-Fokker employee)
2. fire extinguisher pushbutton housing
3. compass mounting
4 and 5 throttle box trunk. It only needs one item to complete it

All items made from drawings and using original parts and fittings when available.

Cheers

Cees