Impresssive, I like the 1:300 Halifaxes at dispersal

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Cees

With the FAAM’s Barracuda DP872 and UAS’s Wildcat JV482 recovered from lough’s just wondering what, if any, aircraft remains are left ?

I recall around the time of JV482’s recovery a photo in Flypast showing a very large chunk of Corsair also. Is it, and any others, still there ?

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This is another example what’s still left at crashsites to recover instead of going off to Russia to buy a container load of scrap aluminium and using a lot of money and effort to reconstruct a Hurricane for example.

At the time I was amazed at what Flypast and Aeroplane published in the early eighties what was still left.

Cees

A museum in the US opened an old container and found a Kawanishi Shiden fighter aircraft in it. It’s now restored and on display. Can’t remember the museum though. It was published in Warbirds Worldwide a decade ago.

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Cees

As the construction of the Mosquito’s canopy is mostly of tubular construction, piping of suitable diameter can be welded with the front frame built op to the Mosquito profile using wooden construction.

This should not be seen as a Mosquito fuselage, as this would not do justice to the whole project but should be seen as a worthwhile project in itself. To build something that would represent the thousands of Mosquitoes that were crewed by young men from all corners of the world.

And if somebody thinks that somewhere in the text above is any slagging off hidden, think again.

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Cees

I guessed so 😀

The only more info I have is basically what I’ve said already…to go into details; It bellylanded on the frozen lake. Did not seem to break apart in the landing. The inboard left engine had flames coming out of it. Sank quickly,and no Germans ever came to ask about it (or it’s crew) so it has possibly sunk completely undetected. That’s it… 🙁

The lake is fairly big,as can be seen in this photo taken half a mile away from the shore. This is no more than a quarter of it,it might not even be as much as that.

Just to be sure, which lake are we talking about. Not Mjosa are we?

Cees

Thanks for that Ross,seems it could be something to it. The lake is big,and just about 5 minutes flying time away from the Oslofjord,going east…so it could have been that,if it really happened,they were trying to go as far east (aiming for Sweden) as possible… the lake is big enough to put a plane down even going across it,lengthwise it’s several miles long. You can easily see it on a map to the east of Oslo.

He said it happened in 44,according to my notes. And the old gentleman was sharp as a knife in the mental stakes…his age had not deterred his memory one bit. From what I noted he had not seen anyone come out of it…and it sank through the ice in just a few minutes. But it was at dawns early light,and he would be looking almost against the sun from his angle. And at an approx. distance of half a mile…not easy to see. If someone left the wreck,they would have moved towards the other side of the lake to get to Sweden,too,not towards him. It’s really intriguing.. 😎

Wow,:D 😮

Get it out I say.:cool:

Cees

Bruce is right,

If a Mosquito canopy can be found the whole thing is transformed. The current canopy looks like a cartoon.
That doesn’t mean this isn’t a great achievement. It deserves to be completed, only to do justice to the man who started it.

Tried to find pics of Lincoln Nietszche’s (spelling?) mossie fuselage reconstruction but came up nought. But he had the opportunity to find any Mosquito bits apart from the wood (which had rotted away). In Oz and New Zealand there must be more Mosquito bits lurking.

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Cees

When I was a kid my dad told me the story of a Messerschmitt 109 somehow crash landing into lake Mjøsa of Norway with the pilot still intact. It’s supposedly in a very deep part of the lake making it almost impossible to bring it up.

What makes me a little bit skeptical is that I do believe my dad said it was shot down by flak or some form of anti air guns from one of the hillsides around the lake. Since its a Me109 this would have to have happened before the Germans rolled thru the area the weeks after the invasion 9th of April. Not even sure the Germans had their 109’s over that shortly after the invasion. Could be an Me110 maybe. Then again, it might nothing.

DCK

Not a 109 or 110 but a Handley Page Halifax with the serialnumber NA337.
It was recovered from over 250 metres from Lake Mjosa and is now almost fully restored in Trenton, Ontario Canada.
Search this forum for more information. Nowadays depth is not the limiting factor (money probably is).
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Cees