Ask Nick Wotherspoon, he will have had fun with it and the Propecter today, trying to get them into a luton back van and then get them out again at their temporary home.

Matt, from what Nick Wotherspoon told me last night it was the scrappy who bought the canberra but had done a deal with someone for the cockpit.

Ross, Nick told me the Link went for £150.

Anyone know anything about the Cheetha that was sold beyond its sale price?

His name was William Horlor http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1800478

Looking at the entry in BCL, I would say he died in the crash and was not identified.

There are a few reports like that from 1917 – 1918 at Kew (I have seen them with my own Mk.I eyeballs). Mostly statisical reports putting a value on losses and the ’causes’ with some examples of accidents.

Not much in the way of useful info from the point of view of trying to track down particular crashes but gives you good idea of how many non-combat losses were sustained.

Nope, wrong Wellington Don. That tail section is still there, well its moved a bit since that photo was taken and there is less of it but most of it is still there.

Bruce wins with L7775, Bruach Mhor. Yes, the wings are still at East Kirkby or at least they were when I went a couple of years ago and they hadn’t moved since my first visit to EK a few years earlier.

Err, as most of the BBMF aircraft never left military ownership you could say the RAF.

What they don’t say about lot 35 & 37 is when they went into their room there was a double door. Since then some one bricked up the original doorway, by adding the ‘porch area’ onto the front and put a single door in that. If there had been a way of getting the thing out short of demolishing the wall then they were going to Dumfries (from what we were told Dumfries loaned the engines from Criffel in the first place).