Exactly. A good crash recovery group or museum, such as the excellent Shoreham BoB museum, presents carefully put together and meaningful displays with full context and respect for both the remains and the people to which they relate. Bad ones just show bits of twisted unidentifable alloy and the same range is evident in many other museums – a case full of unidentifiable pot shards is just as bad as mangled piles of alloy.

Hawkinge is another museum which, when I visited last, displayed articfacts from recoveries in a thoughtful manner.

Sorry! Never sure now who is joking and who isn’t! The only bit I know is for real is the bit about the Blackpool hotel and the aliens. All else is fantasy la-la land!! Anyway…according to Yorkshire TV the other week the Dam’s Raid was led by Douglas Bader, the legless VC winner. It was on the telly. Must be true! Andy

He was in the Vietcong as well as Liverpool,it’s amazing what you find out through this forum !!!! 🙂

The Protection of Human Remains Act would only cover any excavations in England and Wales, I doubt if it could be stretched to cover any excavations in France and I would question how it would cover any wrecks in international water.

“I suppose we could also explore the theory that his Spitfire was abducted by aliens” – I thought that was still classified information!

Tom

Could we explore the theory that these aliens deposited him in a Liverpool hotel, to serve out the rest of his war in luxurious captivity????

Correction:

Include the Utterly Butterly GIRLS in the display!

TT

In my fantasy Legends they’re naked 😉

This is going to be my last post in this thread, for two reasons

Ah, a Forum Flounce, we’ve not had one of those since the Flounce Summer of 2004.

If the digging up of aircraft or removing them from remote high ground crash sites is henceforth called recovery and not archaeology would that not keep the academics from getting upset?

Aviation archaeology doesn’t just encompass digging for bits of aircraft, don’t forget the proposed surveys and digs around various former RAF BoB bases, which will, no doubt, be conducted along the same lines as the so called “classical” archaeological digs.

And, as to upsetting the academics, why should they be spared just because they’ve got a piece of embossed paper and letters after their names? In fact lets run up behind them and pull their leather “elbowed” patched cardigans over their heads, and call them names like specky four eyes. Ugh maybe not. 😀

Well I dunno about Andy, but I’ve run out of energy and ammo.

Dilip, it’s been fun having your’s and Andy’s contributions to the debate, and if nothing else comes of it at least you may have cleared the air between the two of you.