Usually a lurker this string has reminded me of a story related to me by the owner of a junk shop on Stratford Rd in Birmingham some years ago who was ground crew with an RAF sqn.
He served in the far east with a DH Hornet sqn, when the Hornets were replaced by jet aircraft all the Hornets were scrapped by burying them, they may have been at RAF Butterworth but I do know that whatever station they were at had an auxiliary strip on an island not far away.
Looking at a little sketch he drew with the runway of the auxiliary airstrip running say N to S (may have been some other direction) the control tower was at bottom left originally but was later moved to centre right, a long trench was dug north of the tower parallel to the runway and all flyable Hornets moved over and they were then cut up and dumped in the trench.
Once this job was complete the aircraft were run over with the bulldozer before the trench was back-filled, just whether there is any truth in this I do not know so perhaps you lads can take up the trail and identify the station and history of same, this is the first time I have ever bothered to relate this info to anyone,

best regards, Terry

Some years ago I was watching a news piece on the TV, cant remember what it was about now but something that took the reporter to a desert graveyard for aircraft.
It wasnt him or his story that got my attention but four or five B50 fuselage sections and wings still with their very faded RAF roundels in the background,

regards, Terry

It was probably my missus trying her new broom out……..

Out in the garden this afternoon in Telford, quite busy with plenty of light aircraft around then heard an engine that sounded different to the rest, looking up there was a single engine aircraft with floats, couldnt identify it as I didnt have my bins with me, havnt seen an aircraft with floats for years.

some years ago working in a factory machine shop a 17 year old apprentice went missing off the shop floor, they knew he had signed in on the morning and was there for tea break but nobody could remember seeing him after that apart from one labourer who saw him walking off down the shop with a bucket in his hand.
A search finally found him in the toilets with his head over a bucket of trique, he was dead as a government promise after inhaling the stuff for an hour at least, it appears he had become addicted to the stuff after working on the degreasing for months.

When you have something the size of a BK5 then show it off! just coincidence maybe but the Me410 in Wanshans second photo carries the same code as the Me410 at Cosford, 3U+CC a ZG26 bird.
Not sure if this is an A1/U4 or a B2/U4 which I would have expected by 1944…

l’ve got lots of photos on slides but l can’t afford to get them converted.[/QUOTE]

I think it possible to buy an adaptor to fit a scanner for scanning in slide images so that you can process them yourself or take them for printing.
I used to see a few for sale on Ebay so maybe they are still available.

best regards

Which one crashed in the Atlas mountains on a flight to the Cape(?) from what I know of the Atlas range it is cold and dry so perfect for the preservation of an airframe.