In the ’70’s I clocked up hours and hours as an ATC cadet (Berks,Bucks,Oxon wing) in them at White Waltham, Abingdon and at camps up and down the country
WZ873 is ‘MY’ chippy and this is why.
Climbing out of White Waltham the throttle cable broke ,revs dropping to idle. Too low to turn back so the pilot put us down in a potato field north of the railway and this is how it was recovered. The pic made the SUN & I got a mention, all just a bit of extra excitement for a then 14 year old.

Cheers james 🙂

Arent there a load of ME262’s under the main runway at brize?

I did ask on here some years ago about the possibility of German and British bits buried at Brize. after I came across a non aviation story online mentioning the scrappings. Somebody on here replied that a dig had taken place and only tiny bits were found. The runway or 262’s weren’t mentioned specifically IIRC. From aerial pics of the time I’ve seen, a lot of the aircraft were off the current airfield site, in the fields beyond the village to the east.

Hello Major and welcome to the forum. You have certainly come to the right place as there are several members of the forum with first hand experience of Spitfire restoration including members of the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Unfortunately I cannot offer any personal advice, just my best wish’s in your endeavor.
See old thread on the start of the restoration.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=68578

I’ve updated the Tocumwal website with a few pics of the Pilgrimage. Also added a story about the B24’s lost in the fire that destroyed a hangar in 1945 – in a total fluke the photographer on the pilgrimage managed to take an aerial shot almost in the same place over the remains of the hangar – I’ve included the “then and now” shots in the Gallery

http://www.tham.org.au

Cheers

Great website, thanks for the link and a great selection of pics., especially the colour scrapping ones :(.
I would like to point out though about your reference to the “then and now” hanger pics. Unfortunately the now pic. is not the same hanger location as the ’45 burnt out hanger, that was south east of the now pic.
I hope the google map shows them both, you can still see the remains of the larger hardstanding of the ’45 pic. in the google image.

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Mombasa , Kenya March 2011
Not the best pics, taken through a moving airliner window.
What far away airfield doesn’t have a forlorn looking DC-3 ? in this case two, the second hiding behind the 707

not sure of these two, Embrier ? (sp?) Something historic hiding behind these two as well (not derelict)

http://farnborough.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=current&action=display&thread=5968&page=1

Well worth a look.

Hundreds of shots from Blackbushe through the interesting years.

Mark

All I got was…
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But I haven’t done anything ! :confused: well, not that they would know about 😀

Great pics, thanks for taking the time to scan & post them 🙂

Those that like the factory pics that Whiskey Delta has posted will also like the thread over on WIX .
Grummen & Republic factory pics from the ’30’s to the ’90’s, its a long thread with nearly 4000 pics so far & still being added to.
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13327