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April 20, 2010 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Fighter Factory FW-190 Comes Alive! #1109193

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Given time these wunderbare machines will be called genuine warbirds with a given werknr.:cool:

Cees

April 20, 2010 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #1109199

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Good to see the list of items diminishes.

What’s the plan for the construction of the cockpit itself? Forming frames or building a jig?
Peter Howell mailed me that he needed some dimensions and was going to send a drawing, but I haven’t received anything yet.

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Cees

April 20, 2010 at 2:36 pm in reply to: Blitz Street – Channel 4, 9pm #1109203

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There is one at the IWM Lambeth now as well. They have recreated an entire house inside the museum you can walk through and it shows what a wartime house would look like, that “cage” is also present and was used as a dining table during the day and as a place to sleep safely during the night. My wife and I thought it was quite a lovely house and wouldn’t mind buying it:p

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Cees

April 10, 2010 at 5:56 pm in reply to: ME-109/ Hispanos in Germany #1118695

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Le Bourget?
🙂
Cees

April 10, 2010 at 5:54 pm in reply to: Buried Lancasters.(2004 thread) #1118699

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No but this story is also circulating but regarding Stirlings. Until someone starts dispelling these myths, these stories keep on being recycled on and on. They have all one thing in common, it’s always a friend of a friend of an acqaintance etc etc.
Of course some stories are true but unless someone gets off his backside and starts looking, nothing happens. In Holland there are stories similar as well and the museum I work for as a volunteer has had it’s fair share. But, we checked them out and 99% wasn’t true, but at leas we know now.:cool:

Cees

April 4, 2010 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Stirling Windscreen #1125838

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HTH,

Some Ju88’s had thick windscreens (bulletproof glass?) also the B17 and B24 had think windscreen sections. Not any of the RAF types, the Halifax and Whitley certainly not.

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Cees

April 2, 2010 at 1:05 pm in reply to: Duxford In The Sunshine – 01Apr10 #1127910

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The Blenheim is really looking good.

Cees

April 2, 2010 at 1:04 pm in reply to: "What If" – an MR-1 Shackleton??? #1127915

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Interesting thread,

And I only read it just now because I thought it was just another save the Shackleton thread.:cool:

Some points, the Hastings that donated it’s wings to YAM’s Halifax came from Catterick’s fire pit and it would be questionable if it could have been saved for a full restoration. In this instance it provided much needed structure to bring back a Halifax.

Since the preservation of historic aircraft really came into swing this has done an awful lot of good things to preserve the few historic types/airframes left. On the other hand the tendency to question every linage or provenance has also caused an obstacle to reconstruct extinct airframes that wouldn’t have occured in service. With this I mean swapping wings, fuselages etc. to create a complete airframe (remember the Battle of Britain where three damaged aircraft could yield one servicable fighter regardless of it’s serialnumber). Even in the eighties this was the way to restore aircraft.

Purism is an invention from roughly the last two decades.

My views only.
Cees

April 2, 2010 at 11:20 am in reply to: Mosquito lands at Salisbury Hall….. #1128036

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So we can bin TA122’s undercarriage leg we have on show?:D

Cees

March 30, 2010 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Memorials in your neighborhood. #1131768

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Blimey Mathieu, a Halifax?

Cees

March 30, 2010 at 6:12 pm in reply to: Surviving Seafires #1131772

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The non-flying banana, what’s the current status?
and RX168?
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Cees

March 30, 2010 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Alloy skin in a ditch, Weston Zoyland airfield #1131776

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Hi Rover,

Welcome to the forum,

Of course we are a curious lot, any piccies of your investigations?

Cheers
Cees

March 28, 2010 at 6:51 pm in reply to: Our Stirling investigation has hit the UK newspapers #1133499

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Martin,

So far we haven’t found anything of the tail, so must be the nose turret.
Cees

March 28, 2010 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Our Stirling investigation has hit the UK newspapers #1133529

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Some Dutch regional Televison footage of the visit of one of the next of kin Roy Long.

http://www.rtvnh.nl/player.php?stream=NItemTV&item=10-Minuten2009/10-Minuten-14-december.wmv&title=Roy

Thanks Bram,

Cees

March 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm in reply to: Our Stirling investigation has hit the UK newspapers #1135923

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Andy,

Yes, the CWGC are a fine bunch of people, having seen them in action several years ago, they really understand their job. And as you say it’s not their job to recover missing aircrew, it’s the governments that let them down.

The wreck is not in the sea but in the IJsselmeer, the big lake in the middle of our flat country, it’s not deep but a vast stretch of water with hundreds of wrecks are still down there possibly with every new find having a large chance to find missing aircrew.

Peter,

As the investigation is still ongoing pics are limited at the moment apart for identification purposed you understand. This is of course due to the sensitivity of the case.

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