BIG! The bracken will be about three feet high, I reckon, and those silver birches look to be at least four inches across.

Not easy to extrapolate, but it must be getting on for 3 feet high, and ten times that long?

any experts care to tell us what the “book” dimensions were?

Adrian

Hmmm, looks as though I’m going to have to go out to the allotments when the floods subside (ie when I can get there undrowned!).

Someone has used old tyres to weigh down a tarpaulin, and one or two look very aeronautical. Along the canal someone is using as a fender a tyre with the anti-shimmy twin tread (think Harrier outriggers or Lancaster tail wheel) as well. There was a farm with a great stack of such tyres up the canal but, before I could arrive with a camera, they disappeared…

Adrian

Ah, thank you, M’sieur Page!

Just as I was concocting a “balanced” counterblast against Fleet Shadower, based on the Shackleton AEW2 and MR3.:diablo: Ah well, nothing like facts – consider me corrected!

IIRC, wasn’t the Argosy wing a political decision imposed on the manufacturers after someone spotted a perceived similarity in dimensions to the Shack’s? Or have I found another wrong tree to pass water up?

Adrian

Are there any surviving aircraft or substantial parts remaining?

The forward fuselage of a (the?) Avro Ashton, as pictured in post no 4, survives somewhere – a forum search should turn it up. That, as far as I am aware, is the biggest Tudor relic surviving by a long way.

Unless, of course, you count Star Ariel and Star Tiger still flying round Elvis’s pad in the Bermuda triangle…

Adrian

I watched the video a couple of times as well, and I’m not convinced either. There appears to be a house in the background and the magnitude of the bang says to me that either it was something much smaller, or that this was a controlled explosion just to crack the blighter open for later clearing-up.

Of course I’m no expert – but the bang and the debris thrown up seemed less than my SC50 made all those years ago.

Adrian

Well, at least I now know why the chap at naval EOD who the Coastguard called way back in 1992 was so keen to know whether my bomb had any stripes on it… Pink stripes? Bizarre!

Adrian

It’s not a safe game, detecting near crash sites…

I once walked home from a days detecting across a “cleared” (at least three times!) site, and turned the detector on for a giggle, assuming that it would go nuts with all the aluminium – which detectors love. Damn things can find a coke can at 100 yards!

One SC50, under half an inch of mud. Nearly soiled myself, considering the clout I’d just given it with the shovel…

Looking back now, I don’t even want to think about the legality of doing it, never mind any of the other consequences. On the bright side, got a unique paperweight out of it. No, not an SC50 – I’m dim, but not that dim! Nice bit of shrapnel.

Adrian