Definately a Meteor, the access panels show up in the photos here http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/aircraft/meteor.cfm. I would agree that it is VZ467, it has the clear stenciling and there aren’t any other flyers like it.

Great photos.

There is one record holding aircraft in there, LB-30A AL578 “Marco Polo” flew the first none stop flight from (if you go with the RAF Northolt history) Washington to London or the other way round according to Royal Insight. It took 19hr 46min.

Since someone mentioned the u/c it is the same design as used by latecoere ie off a wheel barrow. The camel is quite a way behind as you can just make out its rains and they are in proportion with the camel and are barely visible.

Any wreckage recovered from the lake would not have been from the Whitley, it would have been from the C-47B that flew into the cliffs above in Nov 44. I had heard some years back a diving group located a large part of the C-47 and moved it across the lake to shallower water but it was left there.

I’ve been through my book about hurricane which has lots of pictures of Hurricanes undergoing restoration and there is nothing like that. All the wooden stringer run length wise along the aircraft so that piece would have to be vertical. The only vertical strip of metal was by where the rudder attached and that was on a metal frame. It certainly looks like aircraft though though it might not be hurricane.

No Meteors that I am aware of, there’s a Canberra that dived straight out of cloud and a venom that also did the same, I’ll have another check though the various books.

All the recovered items went to Millom in Cumbria, its almost a year since I last saw the items so I can’t comment on current condition.

The aircraft dug by TT was left, there was less metal there and more corrosion in the shape of the original metal, if we had tried to lift it all we would have had was a pile of corrosion. We then did dig the second aircraft after TT had left and got plenty of good bits off that. Most of those are also at Millom.

Concrete isn’t as strange as it sounds, I was told about lumps of it being used in Tornados and other RAF aircraft that bits had been removed from.