Thanks for the kind words, David. Here are a couple more I like but not to be compared to your efforts. SAS Convairliner at Prestwick and a Euravia Connie at Birmingham Elmdon. The spectators make it, I think. Almost all my other photos around that time were of aeroplanes ‘uncluttered’ by people!

Here’s two more for Gannet fans while we’re at it. A cocooned one for the Indonesian Navy in Birkenhead Docks circa 1960 and the one at Flint Tech College a few years later. I can hear the weird sound they made to this day. Once saw one do a loop at a few thousand feet over our school!

Sorry Robbie, can’t help with stuff buried at Warton. Not heard that story, doubtful but always possible. There was a Waco CG-4 fuselage on Warton’s perimeter till the early 1960s. Never saw it though. A P-38J fuselage pod from Warton (42-67485) ended up in a scrapyard near Blackpool Airport and was there till the mid-1960s. I was offered it for £15 but that was a lot of cash in those days and I only had a Ford Anglia to remove it with! Nowhere to put it either, parents would have had a fit. I did manage to acquire a P-38 rudder off a mountain a few years later. This time it was a wife who was not pleased. That relic – the rudder not the wife – is now in the museum at Perch Rock. Sorry for going off-topic as usual …

I went to the B-17 yard with John Molyneux (still active with the Warplane Wreck Investigation Group) in the early 1970s and took these photos of the B-17 nose. They aren’t brilliant as it was a very gloomy day. The distinctive wing interior is visible above John’s head in one of them. He is pointing at the painted bomb mission symbols in another, although they are not visible on the photo. (Doh!) I think the B-26 rear fuselage shows up in these photos as well. It was partly buried in a huge pile of scrap and rather foolishly I crawled inside. With the blessing of the yard boss we carried off some small items, including waist gun firing grips. These are are at the Perch Rock Museum in New Brighton. I seem to recall the ball turret but didn’t photograph it for some reason. There was an enormous pile of scrap and heaven knows what was under there at that time.

The other photo I took at Duxford around 1973. It shows the B-17 nose and B-26 rear fuse. I believe the B-17 nose was scrapped. These were very historic airwar relics but Duxford didn’t want to know apparently. At least the B-26 bit is still around I hope.

21 Dec 41 Z6350 5 Air Observers School, Jurby, IoM. On navex.

Yes, Martlesham. ‘A’ Type hangar clinches it. Here’s some Spits at MH in Aug 1960 …

Assuming these are the same ones, this has been known about for many years. I think it was somewhere north of Shrewsbury. I was under the impression that they had been recovered for preservation.

I think you’re right there Bob about the other photographer. Yes, it was indeed a sight AND there was a Lincoln there as well, apart from an RF-101C, Mossie RS712 and an RAF Anson, to name the other highlights. Then there were the three RCAF Bristol 170s at Langar on the way home!