I shall have a look at the pics if I can find them (I’m not going to post here as they’re not my copyright to do so), but I’m sure the engine came out in shards – you can’t see in the image I posted, but there’s a ridge of greensand rock and it hit right at the top (I went to school at the bottom of the hill – they dug it in the school holidays, or we’d have been all over it!).

Having said that, I now need to dig the pics out to ensure that I am not making fake news!

Still looks and sounds good, and probably has as many original parts as any Hurricane that has been working for the last 78 years.

Adrian

Obviously spread about a bit – I have a piece about as big as my thumb of the Form 700! And some scanned prints of pics of the size of the lumps that came out of the hole in the rock. Quite how a data plate survived to be rebuilt is beyone me 😛

Crashed near the top of this big field… https://www.google.com/maps/place/East+Sutton/@51.2183124,0.6239627,499m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47df2ee0ffc23df1:0xf5996be39a03bc8b!8m2!3d51.2040066!4d0.6129265

Adrian

Storchs don’t fly in the conventional sense. They are so butt-ugly that the earth repels them! Actually, I do have a soft spot for the Storch, but pretty it is not.

Adrian

Holey moley! The Skyvan, much as I am fond of it, is far from beautiful, but that paint scheme is magnificently fugly!

Adrian

I’m just impressed that Belslow bits can turn up at car boots, given that there was never a surplus of the things! I would have bought it too – I grew up under the Stansted flightpath so I have a big soft spot for them.

Adrian

Good to see him – he’s a great chap, isn’t he?

Adrian