DARRT

You havent got a spare cockit for sale have you 😀

if i can be any help to you with my forster , i would be happy to help,
there must be sites that were dug in the 70s that warrant further investigation, the machine i got detect steel down to 30 + feet,
you might have missed a engine or two :dev2:

What about the B36 that crashed at Boscombe Down? Well, in a field ‘almost at’ Boscombe Down!

I believe the crew were lost on a training flight from Texas! 😀

She was repaired at the A&AEE and flown out.

Bri 🙂

yep, i know the one, actually crashed near Lacock, in a wood,
problem with the “big stick” is just that, its SOOoooo BIG , all i can imangine me finding there is tons of “skinning” thats all i ever seem to find:( ,
its no wonder they call me the “scratcher”, surface scratching about and only
finding skinning, would be nice one day to find a instrument face or a few decent data plates, or blow me, a engine one day, if it got any worse i think i would hang me coat up, and call it a day, a sell off all my gear,
doing cockpits must be alot easier,than scrabbling around for bits of tinning, at least you get something to show for all the work youve done over the years, sorry to sound so Glum, but i have near enough had it,Like most of us on the forum (i imagine) ive had years of the mrs moaning about it, my mates who restore planes taking the pi@@ out of me, and its been bloody expensive, not to mention thousands of hours over the years,and pretty much sod all to show for it.
Is there anyone else out there who has been a scratcher like me ??:D
ive been in this game since i was 14 years old, and now i am 36, and stil i have never seen a JCB dig, let alone a engine come out of the ground:(

Military items

also if any one knows of dumped military equiptment, ie tanks, believe it or not i have heard and seen beried tanks etc in the UK, i personally knew a friend who, dumped 2 churchill tanks down a mine at catterick, yorks,
as i have a interest in all things military, I would be keen to help locate such things as Buried tanks, etc etc, ,but i know its not your sort of thing,
you never know though , nothing ventured nothing gained, theres no harm in me asking,and as for me i am not greedy, i just ask if i maage to find something with the foerster, then i get a few bits a pieces , and a invite to the dig, if poss, have any others of you whilst been out researching crashes
been told of buried Armour ???
i have been told of some near somerset, but its a very weak link, someone said Ferret scout cars, But the army would not bury ferrets there too modern, they would have gone to auctions, or scrappy,
any ideas of any weird and wonderful things “Other” than aeroplanes ??
buried in the ground ????:D

flowers

i guess tony you were loking for that ilusive Hurricane that was there, shame old peter Arnold, Bought near enough everything, well anthing ww2 apart from that Prop boss from a hurri , i was in there searching for stuff for the canadian halifax, I even got quite a few visits from Karl Kjasgaard,hunting with me for bits, I took him to a multitude of places, looking for halibag bits,
I wish i had bought one of those canopys though, there was a pile of tidy ones,problem was i had to wait for the phone at home to get the Order from the canadian lot to bid on certain parts, and sadly they left it too late, by the time they phoned me, (no mobile back then),I got there in a rush and just missed it, I remember p,arnold grinning ear to ear as he had the “Worlds”
collection of spitfire undercarraige legs, Kygass primers,turret rings all sorts of goodies, Shame they scrapped the wings etc of WV838, Roy could do with tha stuff now,
is there Any Scrappies left, does hanningfords still get stuff?
or what about some of the museums ,gotta be honest some aircraft are in a right state, now i am not having a go, i know its hard and expensive to
try and look after a gaggle of aircraft at a museum , when they are outside for 20 + years, but some of the repairs, I saw a meteor once having patches of Sheet fibreglass plastered all over it, and it looked a right bodge job,
i remember thinking “ouch” what happens when a museum aircraft becomes
a dangerous liability , (IE its falling apart) I am sure there is a few aircraft like this in the country, I remember when the welsh museum closed, I really wanted the Mystere, that was abandoned there, but they were something to do with the USAF, and they were witnessed by them being scrapped,
🙁

wd965

😀 yep, i believe thats the one, sat under a pile of iron,and a ****** to get too,
i got the top of the smased ejector seat with the “danger” plate, and couple of other bits a pieces, but i was allways told she had something to do with the lodon-christchuch new zealand run,
but never found anything to proove this ??
as or exeptions, well we all want one of those dont we:D

Flowers yard

Did you see one of the Air Race Canberras there? Just the cockpit smashed to bits. I forget her number off hand but I was told she was something to do with the record breakers in the day.I got a large piece of skinning with stenciling on it from her when they finally broke her up, poor thing was busted open like a tin can 🙁

I gotta say Bucc,he is one lucky b******, It’s also how you look at it. My mate who restores planes to fly,thinks its a bit of fun, BUT SPEND HUNDREDS OF POUNDS EVEN THOUSANDS ON A PIECE OF SCRAP that will never fly. He just can’t get over that. He can’t understand those who love aircraft,don’t necessarily want to fly in them. It’s horses for courses,one mans poo, is another mans gold so to speak