Elliott,
We would all be very interesting in a pic of that centre section, being 90% complete, that would be a hefty component.
Keep up the great work.
Cheers
Cees
Any nice finds at Popham?
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Cees
Holland needs one too, it aint a Halifax but anything is better than nothing:diablo:
Joking aside, I am serious that one should go on display over here considering the raging airbattles over our country and the fact that over 7.000 aircraft came down on Dutch soil during 1940-1945
Cheers
Cees
The RAFM tail section is serving a valuable purpose as it is – being displayed across the airfield from where it was built, at Baginton (now Coventry Airport), as part of the AWA story, within the Midland Air Museum.
That said I wouldn’t mind if it was replaced with an entirely complete Whitley at some point !;)
I agree but it would look much better if rebuilt to display standards. Especially as the tail was one of the things you could readily identify a Whitley by.
Cheers
Cees
Nice collection of Whitley bits Elliott,
I agree, you cannot talk enough about Whitleys. Do you have enough wingbits to reconstruct one complete set? Would be nice if the RAFM bits and Mark Evans’ bits would be combined. But that again would be a pipe dream I think.
If all goes well we have another look at the remains of N1521 during August this year. We already have approaval of the game keeper. The lake was recentely made deeper and the soil was dumped nearby. This will dry out and when sufficiently firm to walk over it we can further investigate, but we think that only small bits are down there. It was also said that a metal concentration was located in the lake but they seem to have dug around it, don’t know if we can do something there. I will keep you posted on that.
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Cees
Anyone?
AFAIK it was a known wreck and recovered using dredging hooks, but correct me if I’m wrong. it would be nice if this story can be confirmed or laid to rest.
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Cees
I live near Schiphol and the DDA DC-3 has a habit of flying directly over my house, so it would be nice to see PA474 doing the same (they wouldn’t know that part of one of her stepsisters was lurking in the loft).:D
Cees
Thanks Paul,
I believe we discussed this before, but I was told by 57Rescue that the section used on the YAM Halifax came from Linton-om-Ouse and was trawled up from an underwater wreck.
Wasn’t your covered waggon not scrapped recently?
Any confirmation in this?
Cheers
Cees
RAF Form 78 has the engine numbers listed (in theory that is), during the massive aircraft prodcution at some point the engine numbers weren’t noted anymore. Contact the RAF Museum for information about this form.
Besides that, you need to find the crashsite and engine numbers to confirm the identity of the wreck otherwise it’s useless. As said if the engine numbers aren’t listed on the form, this is a dead end.
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Cees
A wing?
Cees
Yes indeed,
But at least this unique nose-art was saved. Geoffrey Wikner was too late to safe her (see my earlier post).
Any more pics of Halifaxes to share?
Cees
I know the current owner wants to keep his plans private and he has the absolute right to have it like that.
But are there any pics about at the time of the recovery of both LA564 and LA546? Will this be against the wishes of the current owner? I have never seen any pics of these airframes and they are unique as well.:rolleyes:
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Cees
Nice Batmobile:p
Cees
With a weekly update included?:p
Cees