It looks very impressive in it’s current setting and is cared for by the local people.
If it is all brought back it will look like a pile of scrap and if there is no funding in place to display and re-assemble it on a framework (10,000 sq. ft. ideally indoors!) then it might be seen and appreciated by fewer people than enjoy it now.
Whilst I can appreciate the significance of these medals the real treasure of Winkle’s at this auction are his log books. Now they should be kept together and kept in a museum (FAST or Yeovilton)
Yes!
In my view the actual medals are merely tokens recognising some of the considerable achievements of the man and are in themselves of little interest. If they have a free market value then so be it.
It is hard to defend the principle that the state should award these tokens and then buy them back at a later date. Replicas would suit a museum display equally well.
Can someone explain how an aircraft travelling at 300knts can have a greater rate of descent with the application of pitch (which sounds counter intuitive), and is this a known trait of the Gnat ?
1. It wasn’t and
2. the aircraft was more upside down than the right way up at the time
Have you contacted the archive department at the RAF museum about surviving drawings ??.
Bob T.
That’s an idea, it hadn’t really occurred to me since this has been discussed on here before with nothing being found. Also maybe the Bristol Aero collection. To judge from a quick bit of internet research, the RAF museum does not claim to have any Brigand drawings and the Bristol Aero collection does not know what it has got!
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