A couple = two. Oshkosh 2011 to be precise

I’ll see if I can dig out a photo in the morning

Do you not think that it should be grounded for a few years until the next repaint is due and the roundels can be sorted out, Bruce? Just to be on the safe side. Otherwise, can you imagine the howls of derision from thousands of spectators at its first public appearance when it flies past and they realise that one roundel is out of place by six inches?

I haven’t looked at every museum website, but the NMUSAF’s is very good.
Good photos of all their exhibits, plus historic photos if you take the time to look.

What I don’t like are museums that can’t be bothered topost photos of all their aircraft. Sometimes I just want to check a paint scheme or some detail.
Perhaps they think if you can see them on line you won’t visit?

Not just photos, but they should also have full histories of the airframes in the collection, as many of the better websites such as NASM do. Unless they do that, allowing researchers to access this data easily, they are not serious museums in my view, merely theme parks for entertainment.

I don’t think any information was promised, just that Tim Manna is doing a talk at HFF in Seattle soon.

Regards Siskin parts -what is suprising is that out of how many where built so little survives.

To be honest, that is true of inter-war combat aircraft in general. Most types are totally extinct, and this extends worldwide. Airworthy ones are even more rare, apart from the Shuttleworth Gladiator and Hind, I can only think of the resurrected Retrotec Hawkers and the F3Fs, the Finnish Gauntlet, the Chino Peashooter, and TFC’s Gladiator. There are more trainers, but very few fighters, bombers, or even transports.

Sorry yes ! The article needs to be discovered to give it some credence plus the Siskin being steel doesn’t bode well!

I don’t think we need any more information. We have eyewitness testimony from someone who thinks they might have read it in a magazine, or maybe a book, that there is a rare fighter buried. It is in the area of a pub in Sawston or Sawtry. Surely that is plenty of information to start a multi-site dig involving heavy equipment, TV crews, newspapers, etc.

All that is missing is the magic word, Spi…………. 🙂

Not much choice on that list, I think most of us could think of a at least dozen more worthy of inclusion.

What about a nice DH71 or Sparrowhawk …………….;)

I’d rather see something really unusual, like a Widgeon, Avian or Genet Moth, but I doubt anyone would do something like that.