Bombgone

No, not gliding now, to my regret. It doesn’t sit well with the demands of family and sad to say the Cornish Gliding (& Flying) Club no longer operates at Perranporth.

I do have a lot of fun with this flight simulator gliding group though, and perhaps one day I’ll get airborne for real again:

http://www.ukvga.org

Best wishes,

Phil

Thank you Jason and Bombgone for that information, both very ‘well put’, and we can well imagine the difficulty of recovering deeply buried remains from soft wet ground during war-time.

I still visit the site usually in the Autumn and leave a poppy there, as from what I was told by my Father who farmed advacently, I continue to believe that it was and still is a war grave if not officially said to be so.

Makes me proper sad to think about it, so much sacrifice.

A comforting thought when going up on the wire and bending the pole, like they do in the T21.

DaveR

No help here, but I’d be interested to know if you turned anything up about those early ATC years in Truro? I imagine the squadron would have gone gliding at St Merryn, and may have had links with RAF St Mawgan.

Any luck in your quest?

Phil

730 Squadron, had relocated to the old timber ‘Hut’ at Moresk Drill Hall by 1966 when I joined. There were no airframes or cockpit sections there then.

Was that recovered from immersion in sea or fresh water?

Quattara’s intention is to alert us about lack of action or seemingly lack of interest in Copping or his P-40, on the part of our government or museums.

Quattara, you know that UK has no ‘government’ office dedicated to finding and recovering the ‘missing in action’, and we have always found that frustrating.

Much aircraft material saved is down to the dedication of private individuals, for example:

http://markonepartners.co.uk/

… and in relation to the fallen:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=118230

Whilst Mark12’s ‘silence is golden’ may be significant, surely we have some well connected member who can reply with information about the attitude (perhaps even ‘policy’) of the RAF Museum or other custodians of the UK aviation heritage in relation to the recovery of Copping and his aircraft.

In the absence of any ‘official’ interest, we must accept that the only hope of finding Copping (if not already found) lies with quattara and his ARIDO, and with some private enterprise to recover the aircraft.