Any more photos of the interesting civil stuff or the remains of the Gull?

John

I’m still skeptical as this has all the makings of a good yarn; a deathbed confession and piles of Nazi gold! Ask yourself this, with Poland’s ten percent ‘finders fee’ having been in place (probably) since the fall of the Soviet Union (in 1989?), why would anybody wait twenty-five years until they were dying without claiming it?

Unless some of the people who were employed to hide it were “silenced” afterwards?

John

The Christies url made me think. Tony Woollett, the builder, was a friend of mine and he meticulously researched his subjects. I also have the Christies catalogue from the sale of his models prior to his sad death so I will scan the catalogue picture. There were about 50 scratch built models in 1/36 scale in the auction.

John

As Moggy has already pointed out, a bad head cold can seriously affect ones ability to fly accurately. The pilot had a number instruments in front of him to enable him to fly blind. Of these the Turn and Bank Indicator and an Artificial horizon as well as his Airspeed indicator were the most important. If he lost concentration or he had difficulty reading these (or a fault had occurred) and instead he relied on his own impaired senses he would soon lose control. The GEE mentioned was a radar navigation equipment. This report seems to make nonsense of much of the so called eye witness reports in the earlier posts.

John

I didn’t read all of the posts but I think the uncovered tube airframe is a Stinson 105.

John

I gave my condolences in a brief (six words) post a few posts ago and I intend to speculate nothing about the sad events of Saturday.

The media/coms frenzy is a symptom of our stupid corruption of the digital communications wonder. Modern kids can only grunt as they corrupt language interaction using their fingers. The Red Tops so called journalists serve an audience whose qualifications include high cranial bone density and the ability to recognise a partly clothed celebrity. They feed on this sort of awful thing.

The papers will have forgotten this in a few days when another politician or celebrity does something stupid. What won’t go away, is any knee jerk reactions by the various authorities and the inaccuracies spouted by self seeking self appointed Media guru’s.

Time I think, to let this rest until all is revealed by the competent authorities, as indeed it will be. The bereaved and affected are in need of some respite.

John

Cheers Dave.

John

A great photograph of your Dad, Mike. Which leads me to the comment, imagine six men all trying to get out of that aft door in a hurry as encumbered as that. That would be a real C of G problem!

John