That is excellent information, thankyou very, very much. Can’t wait to tell my father the full story. He always called it ‘the spitfire engine’ against my protest of it being off a firefly. Cheers again.
Although not strictly on topic, but still to do with Lanbedr, I have also retrived quite substantial airframe sections from the rocky beach area of Shell Island. Most of these parts look to be longeron sections and spar pieces and are in suprisingly good condition. Who knows what could be there right now waiting to be found:) One such part is about 2ft long with various sub assemblies, all starting with 300 . Spitfire? any ideas chaps?
There used to be a Jindivik at the long defunct MAES ARTRO craft village, also a hunter cockpit, Westland whirlwind , Anson and plastic Spitfire. Any idea where they all ended up? .I know the Anson is still for sale on a certain website.
Yes, it’s still there, but has been put on it’s handling trolley and moved over the road to the local ATC unit. You can see it on google earth. Caernarfon airworld also have one or most of one.
As a matter of interest it would also be good to know if any Mosquitoes were scrapped or burned on the airfield as i have a mossie flap/ mixture quatrant recovered from the fire dump shortly after the base closed.
Yes, seen those video clips. No doubt they lost quite a few aircraft due to landing accidents and actual shoot downs, some which are covered in high ground wrecks type books and Target Rolling, but my curiosity is the one in the dunes. Most Jindivik crashes are documented, but not so much with the Fireflys.
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