Very nice find that, all the doors i have knocked at and been given sod all

To add a little value, paint a swasticka on it. :diablo:

Alan,

Sadly in any programme time is limited, its a great shame that more of the heinkel was not shown, crew photos combat reports and eye witness to the crash and Edward crews log book are just some of what was missing

In all a very interesting mini series with huge public interest generating almost 5 million viewers on the opening programme alone, for me the prize in the series was the Rhodes moorhouse story and colour video footage which was stunning. Good to see the BBC investing in some quality television rather that junk that viewers get drilling into watching.

Luck was on our side with the aircraft digs, its not common these days you get the chance to recover aircraft sites with that history and archive footage to hand of both Pilot and crash scene, the Lubey dornier was a fine example of this. The aircraft digs were just a part in the great series, but to answer your previous comment with the title Dig 1940 yes you had to dig somthing up even if it looked as if we had a Hymac following closly behind, yes many permissions needed to be granted as you know but thats not good television, infact the hurricane took me 12 months to arrange and seek all the permissions but the TV programme helped oil the wheels, otherwise it never would have happened mainly due to costly enviromental procedures which is the main reason it was still there. The control column was a very fitting find to the Battle of Britain programme and likely to be many years before another is found on television again, thanks for this must go to the Ilchester Estate and warden who helped make it all happen

I am sure I could find a few exhibits for Midsomer Norton if they so wished, however i would have though that more local sites would have been of the greater interest such as the Me110 or even the Mosquito at Ston Easton, let me know and will see what i can sort out.

Alan yes the finds were almost perfect, infact you could see you face in the crank shaft when it was washed off. The other engine punched its was through into the peat layer finally being recovered from 32ft below ground which obviously was the engine hit during the beaufighter attack. I will try and post a few photos of the recovered items after cleaning.

For all those interested a lovely painting of the heinkel being shot down is out in print now! “The Hewish Heinkel by Mark Postlethwaite”

Yes, sorry, I was confused by the fact, as pointed out above, that WWII happened in black and white except for some bits. 😉

Is it a rear spar? I’d love any ‘cleaned up’ pics you might have.. not seen one in the flesh..

Good job, by the way!

Will try and take a few photos over Xmas of the spars attached to the undercarrage, its well buried at the minute behind a load of Heinkel from part III.

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Oh alright then.

Ah so this is the Maid of harlech 😀

The criticism I would have from a general viewer interest perspective would be that the stuff coming out of the ground covered in earth means absolutely nothing to non aviation people.

Its not all about what artifacts you find buried in the ground but the story behind them. It was a little far to take the washing up bowl to the german boarder especially when i had to make room for a few souvenirs, the nearest thing to water we had on site was a crate of champagne and needless to say that dried up long before the finds started to emerge:diablo:

Just maybe programe 2 will feature a little water sport and clean up a few finds for the general viewers, overall another quality programe by John Hayes Fisher and his production team well done

Great stuff!

What aircraft is to be unearthed??

Phil.

Should be a quality bit of Xmas telly for a change, but i guess they have saved the best till last!

The series is split into 3 programes, battle of france, battle of britain and the blitz, where remains of four aircraft are investigated and history told, these awere a D017, Ju87 stuka, Bob Hurricane and finally a he111, oh and a spot of diving however this is only part of each 30 minute programe.

Certainly a mini series to watch

Its good to get the story exactly as it is, notwithstanding my best efforts to fight your corner, Mark!

Unfortunate that one poster saw fit to question the validity of your book “..because it had been delayed so long” and to delineate an apparently established time-frame within which a book must evidently be produced to achieve validity.

As Mark says, it needs to take as long as it takes to get things right. It is certainly the case that not all publishers set such exacting standards.

Seems to me that we hit a raw nerve here, another mosquito book is being published next year which no doupt has a large part regarding the prison raid.

I’ll Drink to that

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