Oxford is a great venue but the north-south runway was not ideal and towards the end of last year they were refusing to allow run in and breaks, which is an important part of the experience for the students.

And for onlookers! Well, that’s a great pity for me, but I wish you the very best down at Westhampnett.

Managed a Spitfire fix today – I think it must have been coming from Abingdon airshow, judging by the various things coming over – favourite comment of the day as the OV10 Bronco trundled back eastwards “It looks as though it’s still got training wheels on!”

Adrian

Bu**er. Oh well, saves me hanging round the fence at Kidlington, I guess.

Adrian
(disgruntled North Oxford resident, who was looking forward to some Spitfires)

**** me, that’s the first time I’ve seen a crank handle so large they need a tractor to carry it! All these years I’ve thought Spitfires had Merlin engines, and actually they’re clockwork. I feel quite cheated!:diablo:

Adrian
(glad he’s not the only tractor boy – don’t the IWM have several Fordson Ns, now they’d be just right on the flightline)

Not sure about the derelict one under the tarpaulin, but (depending on whether the photo is in Germany or the UK) I’d say the tractor to the right is either a Lanz Bulldog or a Marshall M. In either case it’s a single cylinder semi-diesel. Having had a bit of a Google for images, I think it’s the Bulldog, which I guess makes sense in a hangar with two Bf109s in – probably Germany.

I believe the frontmost sheep answers to Baarbara…

Adrian
(oh boy, do I need a life!)

Changing fields, Steve?:D

Those crash reports are well worth shelling out for – search this forum for an F100 crash near Gosfield, and you’ll see some of the stuff that the 1950s ones contain.

Adian

I think it’s a case of wrecks attract fish, isn’t it? Where there be fish, there be fishermen, there be nets…

Adrian

I think the “uPVC” windows is just an effect of them being at the back of a photo that isn’t really in focus anyway – so any detail in them has been lost.

At risk of falling into irony detector failure myself, I think they’re fine – if not genuine WW2 then fairly close. The clothes in the middle image look 1930s/1940s to me, possibly European rather than British (though a pair of lederhosen would be nice to confirm that). At least two of the items on LEMB are heavily compressed scans with the borders cropped off, so it’s hard to draw conclusions from them but differences in the sepia toning etc could be down to all manner of things – I’ve scanned historic photo albums and the differences between two prints on the same page can be enormous.

So… who come up with a conclusive ID first, I wonder?

Adrian

Are there any images on the net of the Dornier which came down at seasalter on 13Aug 1940?

The closest I can find, unless one is up somewhere with no location given, is there’s a photo of a corpse being taken ashore on a stretcher…

Elsewhere, that I know of, there’s a Roy Conyers Nesbit book with a photo in (he sent me a copy of the image, though lord alone knows where it is now), Richard Collier’s “Eagle Day” has a photo in, some chap whose name I can’t quite drag to mind :diablo: wrote a book called “Finding the Foe” which has a picture of two soldiers inspecting one engine, and the Kent Messenger many, many years ago published a book with a photo in, captioned as two Dornier’s crashing next to each other. There are at least two KM BoB books by H R Pratt Boorman on abebooks (I’ve just ordered the cheapest – sorry!), and I reckon it’s one of those.

Somewhere there is film footage as about a second turned up in “Spitfire Ace”. But what and where…

Adrian