Well I’ve never seen a ‘Dash 1’, but it sounds the same. It basically gives the pilot an ‘everything you need to know’ run down on a particular type, eg. Engine start proceedures, climb performance, cruise settings, general handling notes etc.

Servo tab ‘floating’ control surfaces were also used on the Bristol Britannia, and if I remember rightly the system was used on all the control surfaces and not just the elavators.

You can also buy re-prints of the Pilot’s Notes, I have a copy for Mk.IIa, IIb and IIc. Crecy have published fascimile Pilot’s Notes for all sorts of types over the years.

Perhaps I’m being a dunce and missing something (not for the first time!), but there doesn’t appear to be a list of participants posted up anywhere. Is there one out there that I’ve missed, or is one yet to be published?

As Bruce has said, this thread has gone a surprising distance! I’m just posting again to explain that my idea of converting the CASA to Jumo configuration is based on two things.

Firstly, the museum’s own collecting policy. If indeed a Merlin-CASA were deemed unfit for the museum, then conversion to Jumo would redeem it through its resemblance to the original German version. Whether it were painted in Spanish or Luftwaffe markings, it would in either case represent a wartime Heinkel in the metal. I’m still hoping someone can clarify whether this airframe would have been built with Jumo’s, in which case it would be a conversion back to how it originally was anyway.

Secondly, the current condition of the airframe, ie. heavily corroded and fairly well stripped. This means that an enormous amount of work would be needed in any case, and that conversion as part of the restoration work may not add very much to the total effort and funding required. The airframe’s poor condition could be seen as a good opportunity to convert.

I’m not suggesting that it would in either case be easy or cheap, I simply feel it’s an option that should be explored given the airframe’s condition and the collecting policy of the museum that currently holds it.

As a slight aside, I’m hoping the rumour mentioned earlier in the thread about disposing of the French-built Storch and Ju52 are unfounded. To my mind they are close enough to the originals, and where on earth would IWM source the real German-made replacements?

I’ve had a quick chat with a ‘Russian translator of my acquiantence’, and the top caption reads “Spitfire XIV, once used as a trainer by the Indian Air force. Restored in 1992 and now airworthy’. The lower caption reads ‘Seafire XV at the air museum at Mingaladon, Myanmar, 1995.’ No credits on either picture. The main text talks about surviving Spitfires, and although I’m no expert on Spit recoveries, some of the numbers sound iffy- it talks about the recovery of around 20 Mk.VIII Spits from India. There’s also a mention of the Mk.22 at Gweru, Zimbabwe, and Mk.XIX’s in Thailand.

Edit: The title of the book reads “Spitfire: The Allies’ Greatest Fighter”

I agree wholeheartedly with Creaking Door on this, but I’m also a little curious….

If the Heinkel has little relevance to the IWM’s collecting policy, what about the Ju52? It’s a French-built example, restored to its original spec, but it’s also painted in Luftwaffe markings, yes?

I should perhaps have mentioned in my previous post the precedent set by the French-built German types already in the IWM collection. Modify the CASA a bit to look like an early one, and you have something that is on a par with the ‘Ju52’ and ‘Storch’.

Out of interest, does anyone know whether this particular CASA would have been built with Jumo’s and then converted to Merlin power? If so it would give even more leverage to the Jumo argument- you’d just be restoring it to it’s earliest config.

Thanks for the info, Truro looks scenic but challenging- not alot of runway and on a hump to boot! Nice to hear Perranporth has all three runways too, as you probably already know, so many old WW2 airfields that are still in use only have one or two runways still operational, and ofcourse somewhere like Breighton uses only a section of the old peri-track.