I miss the old galleries 🙁

Its worth noting that Mary Alice was stripped to bare metal, owing to corrosion problems all over the airframe – and it had been kept in a heated hangar for much of its preserved life.

Bruce,

It spent many years in one of the original unheated, and very damp, hangars at Duxford before the AAM was built. I would suggest that this is the source of the corrosion issues. Probably some of the corrosion was also present before the first rebuild, and not treated at that time.

Is there a formal OSD for the T1s? Won’t the Reds continue to use them for the foreseeable future?

I’m sure it will look very nice stacked next to the LVG. :diablo:

Meteor T7 still in bits and very green, North side , Duxford on Sunday 11th Nov

Poor thing. 🙁

It is TV959.

Dont be surprised if those pictures dont last very long….

As long as it doesn’t reference the identity of the airframe or the owner, they might well remain. I was visiting a restoration facility earlier this week where a project for the same owner is receiving work, and was told that I could photograph, but not publish, the project. The owner of the facility has been putting photos on his Facebook page of the project, without making referene to the identity of the owner, for quite a while now, and says he’s been expecting to be asked to take them down, but so far has not been asked to do so.

Jeepman.
As an aside, those of us who are working quite hard to raise the profile of the vehicle collection at Old Warden will be there on the 30th to answer questions and smile sweetly.

Andy.

Scary thought! Have you been practicing in front of the mirror? 🙂

For cultural archaeology, yes. For aviation archaeology, not so much, especially after all the wrecks have been removed from Afghanistan’s airports, although there was the wonderful find of the Italian pre-war Ro 37 biplane that had been squashed UNDER a MiG-15 in the lowest level of the Kabul dump.

Is this an additional find to the 6 or so Romeos that were recovered a few years back?