During WWII several pilots on both sides of the conflict broke the sound barrier before Chuck Yeager, and 2 or 3 of them even lived to tell about it. All of them did so in a dive however, not in level flight.

Boosey and Hawkes were primarily classical music publishers, musical copyright holders, and for a time made musical instruments. If this is the device I’m thinking of then it was probably built by Wirek, which I believe was owned by B&H at one time.

Here is an obit for a John Townsend Goss who passed away in 2012 that I think must be the guy who pranged your plane. I would like to have met this man.

http://obits.staradvertiser.com/2013/01/03/john-townsend-goss-2/

That obit links to an interview with John T. Goss from 2000 that has a lot of interesting details.

http://www.outriggercanoeclubsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/John-Townsend-Goss-2000.pdf

He was a 17 year old senior in high school in Honolulu on Dec. 7th, 1941. That caused him to join the new Aviation Cadet Program. He ended up flying 30 missions in B-24s over Germany and France. As he was packing up to go back to the U.S. he was offered the chance to co-pilot the lead bomber of the 8th Air Force on D-Day. After that he was transferred back to the U. S. as an instructor pilot in Idaho, but thought it was too dangerous and volunteered for the Pacific. When he arrived at Oahu he was offered the job of Operations Officer and was put in charge of the military aircraft at Hickam. BINGO!

The obit lists family members, and who knows what photos or logbooks they might have. Maybe even a picture of Dad with the plane he crashed at Hickam.

Best of luck on your search, I’ll post anything else I find.

Thanks for sharing the great pics Hudson. The Me 262 in your second picture is Wk.N. 500492, built at Messerschmitt Regensburg. The “S” on the tail may indicate it was a training aircraft, and was not combat-capable due to airframe fatigue or other issues.

The National Air & Space Museum has Wk.N. 500491, which is an A-1a/R1 model built by Messerschmitt Regensburg. It was captured at Lechfeld just before VE Day. It was operational and had seen combat against the Russians with IV/JG 7. I don’t know if 492 was also captured at Lechfeld along with 491, or if it was with another unit. I’ll look through some of the Watson’s Wizzers files and see if there is any mention of whether 492 was there, and whether it was kept for spares or scrapped.

Not bad for the Daily Fail. They’re always going to mess up the words but the pictures are outstanding. Thanks for the link PanzerJohn.

I like the way they ended with a big fat Buchon labelled ‘Bf 100’.

The first letter code looks like an ’S’ to me.

If the code is indeed G1+HP then it could be the second He 111 with that code. The first G1+HP was He 111P-2 of 6./KG55 that was shot down on May 13th, 1940 and destroyed. The second He 111 coded G1+HP was shot down over England on August 16th, 1940 and captured intact. It may have been the aircraft flown by Gerhard Pulver.

The individual history document on Ju 87G W.Nr. 494083 from RAFM dated 2007 states that in March 1967 it was moved to RAF Henlow along with other AHB aircraft for possible use in BoB film. It was repainted, including W8+A code, dummy wooden dive brakes added, leg sirens, dummy bomb, and rear gun position modified. Engine run at least once and probably taxied. Permission to restore to airworthy obtained from MoD but inspections revealed it would be more involved than first thought, and modified Proctors and scale models were used instead. It was during this time that W.Nr. was confirmed as 494083.

It was loaned to RAF Colerne for display in June 1972 and wing and tail were damaged in transit. Repainted at St. Athan in 1975 with RI+JK code, then moved outside Hendon in November. The first time I saw 494083 it was sitting in the grass in front of Hendon in April 1976 (Along with Me 262, Me 410, V-1, and V-2.) and I took a few pictures with a cheap Kodak. They are very dark and I’ve been meaning to scan them in and lighten them up to look for details, and I’ll do that today. I do know that it has a yellow tail band that I haven’t seen in earlier pictures, and it should still have the modified rear gun position because that wasn’t restored to original until 20 years later.