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June 15, 2013 at 11:20 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #959151

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Some new close-ups from ITV:

http://www.itv.com/news/central/story/2013-06-11/salvaged-bomber-heads-to-cosford/

June 15, 2013 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #959309

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Check this out, from Cosford’s website:

The Royal Air Force Museum – Project Manager
• Seatech – Dive Team
• NHMF – Funders
• WarGaming.Net – Donors
• EADS – Donors
• 328 Support Services GmbH – Donors
• Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation – Donors
• Port of London Authority – On water assistance
• Imperial College – Conservation Consultants/Advisers
• The Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation – Donors

June 15, 2013 at 8:59 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #959323

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“Official” photo here:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-royal-air-force-museum-cosford/dornier-do-17-arrival-at-raf-museum-cosford/10152876361010577

Lovin’ the comments!!

June 15, 2013 at 11:52 am in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #959943

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one just hopes the display part does not mean the thing will be surrounded by advertising logos at Hendon when she goes on show… That would be inappropriate.

I think some mention of them will be inevitable

June 14, 2013 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #960423

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It’ll take a while as it’s weighed down with the Wargaming signage

June 14, 2013 at 8:10 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #960579

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Some one should point them in the direction of the “Short Stirling next” thread.

I suspect that this machine’s association with the Third Reich would have persuaded them to part with their money somewhat more easily. Then again raising, transporting and housing a Stirling would be one hell of a challenge…

June 14, 2013 at 7:52 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #960656

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“Wargaming is passionate about military history, so we jumped at the opportunity to help be part of a truly historic endeavor,” said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming. “The story behind the Dornier 17 is truly unique and we’re looking forward to helping share that tale at the new Education Centre at Cosford.”

Um, apparently…

June 14, 2013 at 7:40 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #960668

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Again from RAFM FB page

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They call themselves “proud sponsors”, though their website mentions nothing about it!

June 14, 2013 at 7:19 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #960705

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I had not previously seen this vertical shot (although I apologise in advance if it is not officially sanctioned and may need to be removed) but it led me to wonder if the missing outboard wing section was recovered? Cannot see it in this image and the barge seems to be headed ashore:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/11/world/europe/wwii-german-bomber-raised/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

Those photos are all from Getty Images, a massive photo agency. More here:

[url]http://www.gettyimages.co.uk[url] just search for “dornier”

June 14, 2013 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #960717

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Nice transportation methods, arranged so that the British summer weather can keep it nice and wet en route to Cosford.

June 14, 2013 at 11:59 am in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #961423

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The fact that trawlers are / were operating in this area makes the survival of this ‘complete’ airframe even more remarkable; but wasn’t the suggestion that this was due to it being buried until quite recently in the shifting Goodwin Sands?

I was at the RAF Hendon museum a couple of weeks ago and I’m sure they had an ‘almost’ mint condition Do17 rudder on display. The other interesting things were ‘Do17 painted outlines’ on the floor of the Battle-of-Britain Hall and on the car park!

It would be nice if the recovery of this Do17 by the RAF Museum could act as a ‘magnet’ for other existing components…

…anybody got anything good?

This one?
http://navigator.rafmuseum.org/results.do?view=enlarged&db=object&pageSize=1&id=65395

They don’t appear to have much else. There’s also this
http://navigator.rafmuseum.org/results.do?view=enlarged&db=object&pageSize=1&id=65536

The Dornier painted outlines are a tad premature are they not, unless there’s something we don’t know about…

June 13, 2013 at 11:48 am in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #962450

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From The Telegraph…

John Harper, contracts manager at Seatech, said: “Usually when we try to bring an aircraft off the seabed we put strops round it, and generally what happens is it falls to pieces. We thought as this happened in past experience we would use a frame to try and lift it, but in the end we couldn’t do that because of the weather.”

Thus, we have pieces of a Dornier…

June 12, 2013 at 11:31 am in reply to: Goodwin Sands Dornier progress thread #963587

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preserve it in “AS FOUND condition”, and put it on display in the entrance to the RAFM.

What, upside down in the car park a la a boy racer’s Vauxhall Nova?

June 12, 2013 at 11:24 am in reply to: Short Stirling next? #963597

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The RAFM have parts of a Stirling which are unceremoniously locked away in storage. Their policies rarely make much sense.

May 3, 2013 at 4:53 pm in reply to: Dornier Courtesy of the BBC #1003252

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Yet more scrap heading to Hendon! If they’re lucky it’ll still be in one piece by the time it gets there. Didn’t 2 of the crew perish in the crash? If so, then why is this not a war grave?
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