Thanks Jan,

What can our French contributors add to this? Or are you keeping the complete Halifaxes in storage a secret:p

Cheers

Cees

When Geoffrey Wikner flew his Halifax to Australia he stopped in a French colony and was surprised to see that the Air Force base there had spare main wheels in store. Seems like these Halifaxe flew large distances.
Someone must know what happened to these aircraft, surely remains like wheels, propellers, engines etc. must be around. France is a large country.
And what happened to those French Privateers? Also broken up without trace?

Cees

No Peter,
That was taken in our museum
It’s a Sabre from an unknown Typhoon/Tempest that we acquired about ten years ago from a fishermen and came from the North Sea. We used black coating as used on cars to hide it’s terrible condition (the block is splitting in to several horizontal layers due to the salt). But it’s in one piece and give a good idea about the bulk of the Sabre even with the front, top and rear missing.

Cheers

Cees

Cees,

I have not really been able to determine what happened to the Sabres when the Typhoons were scrapped. Many of the Typhoons were unused with almost zero hour engines….with the Tempests still flying perhaps some of these were taken to keep the Tempests in the air. The engines that were used….there are some rumours that they were buried much like the unsalvageable parts of the Typhoons. There was alot of alloy in them but would it have been worth the time splitting these down? I would love to hear from anyone that knows anything different….

Dave,

Seems like the Typhoon as a type had to be disposed off as soon as possible, even sooner than the Halifax. There is so little news about any projects around, a few pics would be nice:rolleyes:

Cheers

Cees

What happened to all those Napier Sabres when the Typhoons were scrapped. You would expect the Air Ministry to save a buch of them
inhibited in storage. These engines were paid for by the Air Ministry
IIRC. Were they all scrapped?
Cheers

Cees