Heathrow would be ideal Andy….plenty of hanger space….lots of car parking….flyins possible…plenty of scope for continental & asian visitors….
everyone can find it !!…….one problem….its booked up all next year.

Goddam !!!!….I knew I’d left it somewhere…thanks Andy, can I come and get it this weekend ?:diablo:

Fast train from Waterloo to Portsmouth (Harbour or Town). Off at HAVANT…cross over to Chichester platform and wait for CHICHESTER train. Whole journey time….2hours +a little. Taxi or bus to Tangmere….15/20 mins. Well worth a day out.

Back in the ’70’s, I dug the remains of a Barracuda at a farm in Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. In those days there was very little information readily available, but judging by the wreckage it hit the ground near vertically and was down about 15ft. Someone said it was a mid air collision, but no facts to bare that out.

Does anyone have any record of this A/c, and the crew ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToV62V5XaGE

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Thanks Moggy…that brought back some serious memory of my first flight ever, with my Dad in the early ’50’s. That was in a Gemini operating out of the old grass, Portsmouth airport. I was aged 10, and the pilot was Dick Wilkins, burser of Churchers College, Petersfield.
I sat in the back with my dad in the front right hand seat. We flew over Butser hill and towards the College grounds at about 1500ft. As we did a tight turn over the playing fields below, there was a loud ‘crack’, and a mighty wind blast…the stbd. up and over access door broke open, and tore away from the aircraft. It all happened so quickly, that it was only a long time after, I realised that had we not been in a tight turn, the door could easily have taken the tail off, and ……..splat.
It was a cold and urgent return to Portsmouth, and my dad’s ashen face told its own story. The offending door landed on a local playing field, where thankfully, no one was hurt.
Still didn’t stop me taking up a what was to be, a very eventfull and happy flying career.

I live in Petersfield and have locations for most of the wartime crashes.
This one is not recorded in the Hampshire crash records for 1936, but the commentry was pretty definate.
The background is familiar, but we are surrounded by the South Downs, so lots of choice.
Any further details might help.

When did the RAF start mincing about like a bunch of sailors? I couldn’t watch it past about 10seconds…

Bloody awfull !!!!!…surprised you got to ten seconds…mein gott…don’t even ask !!!!