Yes what you are missing here is that there are many people who ‘get off’
in stopping things happening so anything that helps their argument is all to their good.

Graham

Yes, your right. Its the undersea version of a bat colony, or newts in a pond.

Richard

Am I missing something here. If a wreck containing fluids is left on the sea bed inevitably, at some time in the future, the fluids will leak out when the tanks rot/corrode/rust through. When that happens no one would notice or care.
Alternatively if the wreck were to be recovered then surely measures can be taken to contain fuel or oil as part of the task.
Richard

Ridiculous display – not sure what he was trying to prove. The aircraft would have close to the g limits often during that display.

Arthur
I do not know what the G limits are for a DC4 but from what you can see in the clip it all looks very smooth and gentle, no sharp pull ups, so probably no more that 1.5 or at most 1.8.

Richard

The main undercarriage doors on a Hurricane are shaped, in a wedge section, so that in the event of hydraulic failure the leg can be unlocked and airflow and gravity swing the leg into its locked down position.

Richard

Apparantly in Aeroplane Monthly Vol 7 number 9 page 493 is a picture of the Phi-Phi but I am unable to access my copy at the moment to have a look. Does any have it close at hand.

Richard

I have always been amazed at how wartime production control worked, especially when done in a hurry as happened when Spitfire manufacture was suddenly dispersed following the air attacks on Southampton.
For any company with no previous aircraft manufacturing history to be suddenly given an order for hundreds of a particular component it must have been very daunting. I imagine a package of parts, tools, jigs and drawings arriving in a crate and being told to get on with it pronto.
And all this before communications became as easy as it is today.

Richard

I am surprised the AAIB have not raised the issue of the undershoot to the grass runway at Duxford. A few years ago Sally B touched down short and was launched back into the air when it ran up the same slope, no harm came of that event. Now this accident has damaged an aircraft and the ramp seems to be taken as an accepted feature.

Richard

Thanks. I opt for (ex-Colerne) TG513, 12/9/68 Manston Fire School, where I have other pics. No.2 prototype TE583 was also there (log note, both: “singed”). ).

Yes TG513 looks a good candidate, except I have a picture of it at Manston prior to burning and it has the full title ROYAL AIR FORCE TRANSPORT COMMAND whereas in your picture it only says ROYAL AIR FORCE, I wonder if the heat has removed the TRANSPORT COMMAND bit.

I also have TE583 as being scrapped at Pershore, do you have a picture of it at Manston?

Although I now realise that when an aircraft was recorded as scrapped or withdrawn from use somewhere it might turn up later on another airfield’s fire dump having been moved there by road.

Richard