Vince…I have tried to e-mail or pm you but they bounce back. Andy

Andy, problem was my end, its fixed now so fire away!

Yes was the first in 6 years, I had to go to another field elsewhere, I was looking for something 🙂

I also like looking in fields…the last one i looked in, you was in it!

Gentleman – you are not taking this seriously.

Get professional. http://www.earlex.co.uk/html/menus_html/steam.htm

Mark

Nice one! Well i could have done with one of those steam strippers! Strippers, now that a topic for the forum, after all we have seen it all on here!
Seriously folks i lost the topic of this thread a long while ago, but it all makes good reading! 🙂

Thanks for that Vince. Please dont take this as a criticism of your point but rather as a clarification! Fact is, we didnt KNOW it was a Mk IX but suspected it may well be. The point that may have been missed in the programme is that contemporary local records are thin or non existant in France. In the UK we often have ARP, Police, RAF and other reports to identify the precise identity but in France it is very hit and miss with almost total reliance on 60 year old plus memories, often second or third hand!! In the case of the Bostock “dig”, it was a case of excavating to eliminate it as Bader’s, as with the Misseldine crash site. Dilip also excavated a site that equally could have been Baders, but turned out not to be. We felt we had to excavate the Bostock site….just in case! Imagine if someone else dug there later and it WAS Bader’s?! The whole digging thing was just a process of elimination….proving it wasnt Baders rather than that it was! As for MBV’s comments, viewers didnt see the edited out bits of the early stage of the dig which would not have made for very interesting TV. He can rest assured that the shallow scatter was looked at. The people involved DO know what they are doing. They wouldnt cope too well with Roman pottery, but then I am not sure how many aircraft recoveries MBV has been on?? Just an observation! Andy Saunders

Hi Andy, no Critism taken, I should have really left this one for you to answer in the first place! I needed to get our point across that we wouldn’t have procceeded with the recovery if we had any doubts that human remains could have been present.
Hope this clears it up.
Vince

Well thanks for that update on your view of the digging world, if you boys were to recover this aircraft we would never get to see it with the speed you work at. Well its not like digging up a roman pot is it that is fragile and unbroken!!! this would have hit the ground at 450mph

Treasure hunters thats a good one, think you better pick the treasure hunter detector book if you want to view a few of those. All these sites are now recorded and if you should know and a report has to be complied to be returned to the local SMR

SPOT ON GARETH, THIS GUY SHOULD APPLY FOR A JOB WITH TIME TEAM!

For the record, and for the avoidance of doubt, ALL of the team worked hard. They were, in no particular order, Peter Dimond, Paul Cole, Richard Barnstable, Vince Megicks, Gareth (sorry…mental blank on your name but its 1.30am!!), Simon Parry, Tim Davies, Philippa Wheeler, Peter Arnold…did I forget anyone? Shame that a minority (two or three) of you have become disgruntled but I hope it can be rectified. I will respond to your particular gripes on the morrow. Thank you one and all. Unreservedly. Andy Saunders

Thanks for your kind words Andy, and the missing surname is actually Jones!