Certainly does look that way.

Nice of no-one to contact any of the UK based groups who actually have experience of recovering aircraft, after all the one trick pony hasn’t yet found that elusive Electra (probably in tiny pieces in a few miles of water). Lots of experience looking for aircraft yes, recovering, different question.

It would certainly be nice to be able to see it in person (rather than a photo) before it gets removed next year (unless that is a ploy to shift interest while they recover it).

Using babelfish (which is utterly useless) the only bit that actually describes the part is the first sentence. The literal translation is “A fuselage segment (engine cover) is auctioneered the famous Messerschmitt ME BF 109, rarely!”

I think you will get the jist of it.

The rest is about shipping conditions and who the seller will and won’t deal with and that by it now can be used by arrangement.

Basiclly there are 400 words of none related waffle.

As for the item, it looks like it came from a scrap yard, if it was a crash item the radiator / oil cooler air scoop wouldn’t be straight.

Creaking Door, you are quite right the tail did come off in flight, it landed in the bog not far from the main site. It failed between frames 35 and 36 a couple of inchs forward of the spar to the tailplanes. It lost the tail planes and the turret on the way down but the tail oleo was on until impact.

The aircraft was not recognisable as a Lancaster after the ground had finished with it, the state of the engines was almost purely down to the ground conditions being extremely soft allowing a comparatively slow decel. Think of the Hurricane remains at the RAFM in the BoB hall.

I have not yet watched the program since I was in Scotland last night and stupidly BBC Scotland didn’t show the program (they had Landward, Contury File for Scotland, and much better than Country File to be honest) but I had it recorded at home so will watch it soon.

I think the National Archives might be interested in that collection of reports since they have a not against the whole of 1944 saying they are missing and since they are a public record they are meant to be deposited with the National Archives after a maximum or 30 years though if Brune’s latest idea gets through ti may only be a decade or so.

Is there to be another flight today? I hope so.

Great to see her fly again.

So if flight 2 is tomorrow, what time? Brunty is a good couple of hours drive but that doesn’t matter.

Here are some photos I took at the crash site of P5090 in July 2004, compare the last photo Elliott put on (of the more complete wing minus fabric) with an almost identical one I took (4th image).

We’ve already had this discussion ad nausium:mad: .

Garry, members of BAAC have suggested such a list in meetings (I know I have been at them) and there are some problems. Who goes first. Who has access. What exactly is on the list. Some members are better than others at recording but you try writing up over 350 site visits (not digs, just visits like your average walker does:eek: ) and you’ll soon lose sight of the objective:confused: .

Also most groups are fairly inactive now doing just the odd site investigation or recovery so almost all of your wish list falls into the deep and distant past with old age memory loss for more than a few.