Sorry for misunderstanding. EARLY Hurricanes means L series Hurricanes with two blade propellers.

If you can decipher a serial (or even have an idea roughly what the serial is), I have the Air-Britain book listing serials L1000-9999 – I can look in that. It won’t tell you what happened to the aircraft in much detail, or exactly how it got to the Germans, but if an aircraft is recorded as “SOC France May 1940” that will probably be good enough.

An idea of the serial would be good, though, as I suspect that there are a lot of Hurricanes in the L**** range! Oh, and one survives, in the Science Museum in London, too.

Adrian

PETER Arnold has a Mark 12 Spitfire!

Doug Arnold had everything! And didn’t like to talk about it…

Adrian

Oh for a look round Mark12’s shed… 😀 (closest thing to a green-with-envy smiley)

Adrian

(Seriously – I’m amazed that someone can post something for one particular person’s attention, and not only does that person have the gen, they also have the remains!)

More missile-related Malarkey, isn’t that three Thor launch pads I see in the photo of Breighton?

I must confess, my first thought on seeing the brochure illustration of the Bloodhound site was “I wonder if there are any of those visible on the ground still? So it was very good to see the illustrations! A glimpse into a period many of us forget because it’s not “The War”.

Planeman6000, you might enjoy the comic juxtaposition in one of the photos in this thread! http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76577&highlight=passat

Adrian

Anyone else spotted these yet?:D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7149476.stm

Adrian

Try not to mention “W**** E***** D***” round here – those were real T-6s, and one or two members get apoplexy when they think about it!

Adrian

Carpetbagger,

There are pics on here from that movie – somewhere… Once someone gets the title spot-on have a search (if you can stand it) and pics and the story behind them will magically appear…

Me, I’m going to sink to a spectacularly anal level of pedantry. Even for me.

Memphis Belle (part 2). Any shot of the English countryside. There’s “tramlines” in the crops – but leaving tramlines for sprayers didn’t come in until pesticides etc began to be widely used in the 1950s – 1960s. Terrible – shouldn’t be allowed.

Adrian