Worth mentioning that the wingless wonder F104A – converted into a “car” – is making runs at present too, aiming among other things to set a new woman’s LSR of 600 MPH+
http://www.landspeed.com
Judging by the lack of updates though, I suspect it isn’t going too well…
..and +1 on “The World’s Fastest Indian”. Burt Munro has to be one of my all-time heroes….!
Worth mentioning that the wingless wonder F104A – converted into a “car” – is making runs at present too, aiming among other things to set a new woman’s LSR of 600 MPH+
http://www.landspeed.com
Judging by the lack of updates though, I suspect it isn’t going too well…
..and +1 on “The World’s Fastest Indian”. Burt Munro has to be one of my all-time heroes….!
hi,
Anyone know when the JCB’s are going in, what’s the hold up?.
Well as ever, there’s only one place to go for the real truth of the matter: the latest Daily Mail story on the subject….
…which basically says.. “probably not til next summer”.
Here’s another supposedly genuine GPR image that’s been published: apparently the one that convinced the local town worthies that there was something there.
I certainly don’t remember them looking like that on Time Team…. :rolleyes:[ATTACH=CONFIG]240746[/ATTACH]
It’s the one at Carlisle: real shame for them as she’s immaculate inside.
There’s nothing on their own (Solway Aviation Museum) Facebook page about it – perhaps Peter can post the link he’s seen?
Video is up on the Facebook page now…
I seem to recall that the Stirling Project guys investigated fairly thoroughly a few years back, with help from Russian officials too, but couldn’t find any definite info on what became of it.
“Am I leaving anything out?”
Well, you mustn’t forget the people who are convinced she faked her own death and lived a long and happy live in New Jersey under the name of Irene Bolam….
[QUOTE=RPM, FF, TGT…;2238842]”It’s buried…”
Be careful – talking of buried aircraft in jungle locations on this forum is likely to start a riot…
But seriously: the best of luck. Whether it turns out to be “that” aircraft or not, I really do hope you find whatever there is to be found.
Idon’t know of an actual book from the Nova DVD – but if you haven’t got it already, then this book…
http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Warbirds-Obsessive-Quest-Aircraft/dp/0345436180
…tells the story. I believe Veron Rich did obtain salvage rights in the immediate aftermath of the salvage attemmpt and fire: but I don’t think anything ever came of it.
Right or wrong, at least this guy doesn’t have a record of pulling “proof” out of his hat and relying on new “discoveries” for a living…and he’s spending his own money!
Too true: But he seems to be falling into the same traps as TIGHAR of trying to make the facts fit the theory. Because they “know” the Electra MUST have landed there but isn’t there now, then obviously the locals MUST have taken it away… etc etc.
I think of the three theories, Plough’s right, Dave Billing’s looks most plausible in many ways: but again as with them all – if you’ve eyewitnesses who are adamant they’ve seen the wreckage – why is it the bl@@dy thing always manages to vanish without trace?
No doubt someone will eventually stumble across the Electra peacefully rotting away 3 miles down in the Pacific somewhere and Ric Gillespie will have to switch his attention back to finding L’oiseau Blanc to fund his retirement. At least Newfoundland’s closer than Nikumaroro.
They’re looking on the wrong island!
At first sight this actually looks more believable since they do have real, genuine bits of aircraft: but their blog then casually throws in the fact that 40-odd planes were shot down in the area during WWII. They’ve also some bizarre notion that the rest of the Electra was dragged round the island and then loaded onto a barge and removed by locals. I gave up reading at about that point….
I was just going to post this too: what an amazing woman!
[QUOTE I cannot remember which magazine article it was in though. [/QUOTE]
Robert Westall – who wrote a children’s novel about the exact same thing was apparently inspired by a couple of real life happenings – one involving Dutch children who retrieved an entire Lancaster rear turret during the sixties and I’m sure something like a church choir from Humberside finding a gun at a crash site – that could possibly be the same incident.
I see the wild geese of Nikumaroro island are in for another chasing soon: The next expedition arrives there in June, assuming Tighar’s ever-generous followers stump up the $60k they’re currently short of. Get ready for lots of learned debate as to whether the baked bean tins and coke bottles they find were on board the Electra…