G’day Keith,

Top pic, thanks for uploading it. We’re there any shots of the former Victorian Railways tram which went there around 1958?

That shot is also before its use as an impromptu toilet!

I have many happy memories associated with that Beau, as you’d possibly remember. Ground-running was always good fun, and I don’t know how many hours of hangar-flying I have under my belt!

Thanks for the memories.

Cheers,
Matt

Good stuff.

Now they can strip all that tired old paint off it and give it a nice new paint job!

(grins, ducks, runs for cover!!!)

Cheers,
Matt

*edit* – my post was started before Mike J’s was submitted – I’m joking, of course. Repainting it would be the worst possible outcome, as I assume Mike is also suggesting.

The damage seems to indicate that there was a fire which melted various parts of the engine.

Cheers,
Matt

Phil,

A few chunks of aeroplane were raised, and quickly fizzed into fine powder. There may be a handful of useable components, but pretty much stuff-all.

There were photos getting about, from the early 90s. You can hear the fizzling just by looking at the pics!

Cheers,
Matt

*edit* Fizzle, fizzle: http://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/dumped@sea.htm

I really don’t see why those of us who are cynical should apologise for that stance. Anyone who has been involved with warbirds for any length of time will be quite familiar with the ‘Spitfire in a shed/barn/mine/cave/hole/box/warehouse story. I’ve heard a few since I got involved in the early 80s.

Back in the day, if a ‘bomber in a shed’ turned out to be anything, it was a stripped Anson. A ‘fighter in a shed’ was half an Anson.

Knowing what happens to buried timber in wet ground, and knowing what the lifespan of wartime weatherproofing is, I don’t expect anything of value to emerge, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

Perhaps I’m not Polyanna, and maybe I do have a default position of ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ , but I’ll be genuinely happy for those involved if something comes of it all.

Cheers,
Matt

G’day folks,

Certainly not a C-46, doesn’t look like a Mariner, and I’d doubt that it’s US at all.

The man appears to be James Dresnok, the American who defected to North Korea, so I’m guessing that the aircraft is something in the North Korean aerial inventory.

The US star and bar looks wrong, like something painted up for a propaganda film, and Dresnok appears to be wearing a 1970s suit. Looks like the propaganda film series Unsung Heroes/Nameless Heroes;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsung_Heroes_%28film%29

So, what 1950s-1970s Soviet/North Korean transport aircraft looks right?

Cheers,
Matt

*EDIT*

Is it a Lisunov Li-2? The North Koreans used them for years. The starboard door, the scoop and the two small windows look about right. As the image is a screen-grab from a movie, it could be distorted or ‘squashed’ slightly. Compare with this image from Wikipedia;

Looks about right.

Cheers,
Matt

Flt Sgt Copping was remembered in a small memorial ceremony here, on Thursday afternoon. Here, seventy years and half a world away, this man is not forgotten.

Lest we forget.