Hi Redroof

I think the silence says it, unfortunately. There is no method that I am aware of to match component serials to aircraft, you have to bear in mind that not only was such record keeping not the most efficient use of time or manpower but also there were spares holdings, allowing for field replacements and swap-outs – making tracing of parts after all this time largely impossible. It would be like knowing the manufacturers serial number of a wheel and trying to find out the VIN.. on a 70 year old car.

However, I stand, as always, to be corrected – I know little of the specifics of Swordfish and the FAA in this area.

PS Any other interesting relics in the collection?

Sorry, Ross beat me to it.

While picking nits, it is not a good start to a documentary about World War Two to get the date of the beginning of the war wrong by over two years.

A masterpiece of spin, that announcement.

I particularly like the Mandleson-esque bit about ‘will include the team’s suggestion as to how and why the legend of the Burma Spitfires came to be so widely believed by the public and the media’…. erm, doesn’t it have a lot to do with their own press releases telling the media, and therefore the public, that there were definitely Spitfires there?

Also annoying that they make out they are the first people to forensically go through document archives and witness statements in the name of aviation archaeology. I beg to differ – they are just the first to announce they have found something first, then actually search for it afterwards.

Bonsoir, ici nous avons le diagramme moderne d’un mouton anglo-français..

(Vive Brian, wherever you are…)

😀 Sorry, one for the older members there.

Cracking. Will it be at Egg-ends? Or featured in FryPast? What did you shell out for it?

Specifically copious amounts of Westland Wapiti drawings exist in the Yeovil archive. The ‘various’ partial collections of other Westland types will be properly catalogued once Dave G’s Herculean task of sorting it all out is complete.