And just found these: the other ‘Rumpler’…….

thanks for sharing the pics, they look gorgeous, would love to see that gotha, that is a big bird, 😀

There was some real beauties in the Imperial german airforce, the Halberstadt for one was a real sexy looking plane, especaily with that “Lozenge” cammo they used to have, Personally I would love to see a Gotha Heavy Bomber fly over London again ,;) perhaps right over the houses of parlaiment:diablo:

But being such a monster in size I doubt very much one of those would ever be built, I may as well ask for the zeppelin airship, as same goes for that “it just AINT happening 🙂

ahh, he may have done, to be honest i cant remember, I was going to get one when i went to visit WK124 at Marston, But i never had the equiptment to remove it, and it was in a bad way the magnesium, was starting to crumble, due to the years of fire practice, sadly lots there but quite impossible to move without cutting equipment , shame really as 2 ejector seats are there too, but rotten in the seat pans , I also have 2 oxy bottles from her if these are of use to anyone, 1 large 1 small, as for my panels , they are just that airframe panels ,Not instrument ones, the lightning one has a serial number on it, I think it is one that came from a scrapper in the 90s
I know i could probably get all the bits, but i cant afford to buy loads, that sthe problem, wish i could , but i will have to drip feed the parts so to speak, same as everybody else i suppose, but atleast i can find those all important Sources for when i do have a bit of spare cash , and I am working on that one!:);)

Crewkerne canberra

I only spoke to a eye witness the other day about this ,he was 15 at the time, and said he saw the pilot still sat in his seat with the shute draped ver him,he went up that evening, and said that the area where the pilot landed in his seat had a 1 foot depresion where he had landed with force, it was on a hill opposite the petrol station, I have been tempted to go there and photgraph the site, But have been told it has been built on, it was just outside crewkerne, on the dorchester road, opposite the petrol station
really sad about the pilot though, its storys like this one that kind of bring it home to you,:(

wheel chair

I think its a rotten shame that people with wheel chairs through no fault of there own, cannot get as good a view as anyone else,
you would have thought in this day and age, th organisers could have set by a good viewing area for wheelchair users, then you wouldnt get the man with his step ladders and 5 foot lens in all your shots,
some people have No consideration, 🙁
I hope it is better for you next year :);)

Vokes,

regards the Vokes post o this thread,

thanks very much !, youve solved a 25 year history ,

back in the early 80s i found a Vokes lttle brass/copper data plate when i was invited as a 15 year old on a Vampire Dig, VF300 ,

allways wondered what it was from, now i know, some sort of air filter 🙂

SPAM

Hi Timbo,

Yep, Ive told one of the Mods about it, hopefully we wont see this again, Bloody cheek,

I am selling a bit of Messerschmitt on ebay, and yet I am not putting links, websites and all the sales bull**** , and this isnt even aviation minded;)

Merkle , you are getting carried away again, you can’t just turn up on any old airfield dump and burning ground and dig. Rare prototypes and development aircraft have been buried and burned up and down the land.

The reason I mentioned that the engine may have been removed, is that I have read that a couple of Eagles are preserved, they must have been removed from something. May have even been of limited use at the engineering school at Manadon.

Yes you are correct Pagen, 😮

I did get a little Over exited :D, its just i marked this one out in the book quite a while ago, and to see a photo of it ,pretty much around the same time it was buried, got me all exited 🙂

Perhaps its worth forwarding this info to the FAA Museum, then they can go through the channels of recovery if poss, because if it is there, then this is something that needs to be done under the “Umbrella” of a national Museum,
I imagine if anyone else done it it would be a too costly exercise, and corners would be cut, But if the FAA museum, are un-aware of it then perhaps it might be worth just forwarding that info to them, and then perhaps they “may” investigate it further ??, as to if anything is left of any use, as I said before, Who Knows ??