I heard somwhere that the cockpit collection would be moving to the city of Norwich Aviation Museum.

A new building will be purpose built for the housing of these sections, 2 x Lightning, Bucc, Jag, Phantom, Shack and others.

Anyone add any weight to this rumour?

Regards,

John.

Poor old outside edge running to keep up with the center marker that is virtually stood still!!!!.

Last year……..two in car

This year………car full and trying to find ways of fixing seats to the roof rack!!!!!.

Would like to meet fellow forumites and put faces to names.

Regards,

John.

I had a quik google and came up with this……..

The Mk.I bomber had a crew of 3 and used the 840 hp (618 kW) Bristol Mercury VIII radial engines with single-stage supercharger. Maximum speed was 260 mph (418km/h), with a ceiling of 27,280 ft (8300m) and a range of 1,215 mi (1810 km). It was armed with two 0.303 caliber machine guns, one in the port wing outboard of the engine and 1 in the rear turret (a Vickers K gun), and could carry 1,000 lb (454 kg) of bombs of assorted sizes (4×250 lb, 2×500 lb, etc.).

Hope this explains the presence of .303 machine gun parts at your dig site.

Regards,

John.

Denis……..makes sense to me, I totaly agree.

John.

I sympathise with the way you feel but I also think that all items regardless of thier provenence require preservation.

To me I feel a rush of emotion when stood in front of a preserved Spit or Lanc but that is nothing compared to the rush of emotion when confronted with a salvaged wreck that has history of the crew perishing.

I don’t mean this is a morbid fascination of death sort of way, more of a look at what these hero’s went through to give us what we have. The impact of such artifacts far out way the queston over collecting them, these items need to be saved for future generations to understand our history.

Regards

John.