I should say the distance is the same on all marks of spit!! Cant tell you now but will find out !!

Steve

Chris, yes remember that, just thought tanks were further inbd. ie in ammo & gun bays. Ater another look maybe they are !!

Steve

Hi all, Peter monk in harvard & Dan Griffiths in TA 805 at Sandown airfield on the sunny Isle of Wight. Fantastic display by Dan.

Steve.

indian 109

I thought everyone knew where this one is. !!

Steve

Glacier girl is an interesting one – I suppose boring a hole in the ice is very different to digging a deep hole with an excavator…

Steve Vizrard excavated a very deep 109 on the Isle of Wight – I think a section of hillside/cliff face had to be removed to get to it. What happens when the ground is very soft and goes beyond the reach of the diggers arm? How deep can you ramp an excavator? Probably as far as the stability of the hole will allow… I’m sure Andy has some good stories and some experience on this 😀

Hi all, yes the 109 crashed into a well at a place called cowlease. Steve dug away the side of the hill to get at it. My dad saw the 109 get shot down, the pilot baled out & landed in the sea and the storey goes that when some local fishermen got to him he was alive but by the time he was bought ashore he was dead !!!!

Steve.

I never realised that many of these parts are now gone forever,i would have thought that with the effort to recover these parts and the passion that the people involved have with the BoB that they would be perserved like gold.

Maybe some would have been better left in the ground(more stuff for tv programmes now !).

Hi all, I remember a TV program some years ago called “Grave Robbers”. From memory Steve Vizard , Andy Saunders & possibly Mark Kirby were featured.

Steve.

Crikey, he’s got a twin brother !!!!! LOL.

Steve

Not based in wales is he ?

Steve