Bruce,

http://rides.webshots.com/album/143512123EeQsAN

Foto’s by Per Bjorkvist. There are a lot of photo’s on the web of the recovery.

Amazing to see those recovery photo’s. Pity that they didn’t put the recovery on film as done during the recovery of NA337. Magic.

Cheers

Cees

Thanks Bruce,

I couldn’t agree more. There were some decisions made after W1048 was recovered but some of these have been reversed again. What’s happened is happened and we should look to the future now. W1048 is now a centre piece at the Bomber Command museum and rightly so. The Halifax situation has changed since 1973 and from an sole survivor and one cockpit section we have now three airframes and a cockpit section and I feel that this will change in the near future. If LW170 is found an possibly brought up we will have another survivor and there are some more possible candidates for recovery. Who could have thought that in 1973.

Oh eh, Bruce, the Halifax Messier undercarriage was indeed made of magnesium which will not last long underwater. NA337 had the same problem and uses a steel fabricated structure with fibreglass covering that was taken from a mould using the only surviving undercarriage casting at the RAF Museum, the same solution they used on the YAM example.

Cheers

Cees

Nice work on a rare type (in Europe anyway), having dug only one in Holland so far.
Next stop, the cleaning process and I think with less people present than during the recovery (speaking from expericience):rolleyes:
Cheers

Cees

Thanks for the pics, they are great.

Still gives the impression of a lame bird with her outer wings crooked (the other one broke off during the recovery) and missing bits and pieces.
Please make it more complete again to give it some dignity.

My opinon only of course

Cees

Cees,It never ceases to shock me how incredibly close Dutch are to Norwegian when it comes to the sound of many words… I don’t know a word of Dutch,but I could read that…:cool:

Well, you do now

Cees

At least the Mk 21 prototypes DP851, PP139 and LA187 had Jablo blades.

However, they were to to Drg. No. RA.10129/JJ.

I would lean towards a Spit, since having a blade from a Spearfish seems unlikely, as only 5 were made.

Yes, but Ian Foster of 57Rescue used to have a blade from a Spearfish as well. Could be this one even, I’ll ask him.

Cees

Aircraft that can taxi is a great sight and also a huge attraction for museums like East Kirkby. For most the taking off is the most enjoyable part of a flight (the rest is boring to look at :diablo: ) . For a taxying aircraft less original parts need to be replaced as opposed to a flying restoration. This is a perfect situation, let’s keep it that way and increase some of it with a Bolingbroke or any other suibable aircraft type. it’s a sure crowd puller, and good for income.

Cheers

Cees

Well, it was meant to be tongue in cheek but there is truth to it.

That’s the main reason I have been so selective on getting items made up for the Whitley. There are still components out there. Only 2 days ago I got an email from a kind person offering me a flap section and hydraulic component from Whitley BD232 that were picked up off the hillside in the 1970s.

Lord only knows the volume of souvenired parts that were subsequently binned.

We will continue to watch and wait – restoring original components and selectively and conservatively having new ones made.

Fuselage frames are a different matter :p

Cheers

Hi Elliiott,

Yes, I know. Of course there are a lot of parts still out there. But as you say fuselage frames will have to be made I’m afraid. Or a Whitley fuselage should be lurking somewhere as a shed.

Fighter Ace just mentioned that he has a recovered throttle box in his shed. If Peter mentioned earlier that he was looking for a throttle box as well we could have set up something to all our benefit and could have shared costs:D

I am very interested in those recovered throttle box photo’s.

Cheers

Cees