I now deeply regret my reply on this thread.

By association I have linked a crew and their selfless pilot, who died trying to save an aircraft which he thought of value to the war effort with what seems to be an overriding need by all here to rivet count on the text of a film script.

A sad day when this overshadows the deeds of this man and his crew.

Ross

Please don’t regret your reply…..by posting it you not only gave Moggy more details about the brave man he met, but also educated many of us and ‘said’ the name of a long dead hero…..that makes up for the dross as far as I am concerned.

Tony

JC said..
snip….. Battle and Tomahawk parts got dumped to a scrapyard at Baldock ex RAF Henlow store after a lot of effort went into recoveries.

That I did not know….there were still small parts for a few years…then we were allowed to remove them…just a few trinkets left (plates etc)…no they wont be at Legends

This is just scaremongering claptrap. The site is on a hillside miles away from a public road. It is too remote and uninteresting to be visited by anyone other than estate workers or aviation scrap dealers. I suspect that the limited pilfering that has happened here has been done by estate employees who are housed near it during the stalking season. Do you, the guys from Waddingto or the estate owner really believe that anyone is capable of manhandling a Lancaster mainwheel – complete with smooth tyre – the six miles or so to the nearest road without the assistance of the estate?

Do you trade in aviation wreckage by any chance, and why did you name this particular site? It seems to me that naming this source for Lancaster parts on a public forum is not exactly the smartest thing to do if you are concerned with the well-being of this crash site. I just get the feeling that you are more concerned with selling parts than preserving the sites.

Best wishes
Steve P

Reading your post made me feel that I no longer understand the English language! I think that you have taken everything that Scotavia wrote and ‘perverted’ it…..where does he talk of selling in that post? Where does he talk claptrap in that sentence? He is using understatement in the ‘walk’ bit. Please calm down old boy….I think he named the site because steps had been taken to clear it….it is true that items left on hillsides will corrode to nothing…if there is a better place for them, then surely that is in everyone’s best interest?
I hope Waddington do something good with the wreckage.

I think I have a foot in Anna’s camp….Iknow that he madeoff with loads of money, lost it etc…..but when I first heard of his sentence I did not know it was about Madeoff. I heard the words 150years….and he was a monster and immediately thought oh good they are giving a decent, huge long sentence to a serial killer? An unpleasant paedophile perchance? A rapist?….nope a fraudster. Sorry, but it seems in this world that money is king and that if you dare do fraud, etc then you will get a bigger sentence than you would for an unpleasant murder or unspeakable act on a fellow human. Sure, a deterrent sentence is required but why is it considered worse by some justice systems? A nasty person murdered little child in a nasty way and got a recommended minimum sentence of 23years? How is that person ‘better’ than Madeoff?

did not see it…but there are tons at Mesa, Falcon Field

I think this thread help no-one….we have a few facts and a million speculations! Incidents/accidents really need the factual end report not armchair ‘expert speculation’.

Bruce, I think this thread has over-run its course! A locking is well over-due in my humble opinion.

Not enuff!:D:):dev2::diablo: