Interesting to hear that you were a member of the EAG, Denis. The year before you joined, at a highly impressionable age (7!), I watched the remains of a Hurricane being dug out of a field at Spains Hall, Finchingfield (wouldn’t mind knowing where those bits went – anyone know?). From that moment on, there was no chance I’d ever grow out of being interested in ‘planes!

Hard to say as it was a long time ago, and Norway seems to have exciting things lurking in every spare bit of water, but if the Bretts left the EAG in 1979 then I doubt very much that the fuselage section went to the RAM, as I remember it at Duxford, almost certainly post-’79. I suspect that the same aircraft was shared round.

Adrian

Dick Grace. Crash Pilot. Enough said, I think.

Adrian

A swift Google turned up this. Dunno if anyone can comment on his Sea Fury’s serial and tell me if the picture is OK, but if it is… blimey!

http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/remembering-ormond-haydon-baillie-as-good-a-pilot-as-there-ever-was/

Black Knight, his T33, is the one that was destroyed in an accident at Duxford recently. Thankfully – possibly miraculously – the crew were OK.

Adrian

The NEAM parts are from a Scottish high ground wreck. The Duxford parts were from Norway – I believe some of those parts might be in Austria with the CASA 2-111 project over there that used to be in the U.K

Yes, the DX bits were from a wreck in a lake that wasn’t identified with any certainty IIRC. It’s a loooong time since I saw it, but I seem to recall a length of fuselage with the battered remains of the gondola underneath standing behind the hut they were based in. I’ve got the group’s booklet still – I’ll have to dig it out.

Let’s hope they can be put to good use.

Adrian

This is the shot, taken with a borrowed Canon A1, fitted with a fixed wide angle lens, from the back of a TF-51 on a ‘cross-county’ on home territory.

I am not in any way even just the teensiest weensiest bit jealous of you, you luckyluckyluckylucky barsteward!

Oh. Errr.. what gave it away?

Adrian

Well, we have now two complete FW 190 D
Let´s say they would fly. I´d guess in about twenty years both will be gone. Like the last airworthy He 111 (Casa) did or the last airworthy Mosquito,…

Let’s not also forget that more historic aircraft were lost in the hangar fires at La Ferte Alais and the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum (and of course the Woodford Lancaster) than were lost in flying accidents over the same period.

Putting it in a museum is no guarantee of its survival – it just means that the risks are different.

Adrian

….or a faulty sub-editor :diablo:

GGGRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!

Adrian

Tom Cruise takes desperate measures to teach the RAF height requirement

Adrian