Looking through the FB9, and single-seat Vampire losses in general, I can find no mention of a pilot ejecting only ‘abandoning’ or ‘baling out’, so I assume that an ejector seat wasn’t fitted. I see from another book re the Vampire T.11 2-seat trainer that ‘later aircraft were provided with ejector seats’ Looking at a cut-away drawing of a single-seat Vampire, behind the pilot’s seat you’ve got the pilot’s head & back armour, and also the hydraulic system reservoir, all of which do combine to give the look of an ejector seat. Maybe someone else reading this has a more detailed book on the Vampire?

Geoff.

I know who are now, remember you offering the photo of George Corbett’s grave to the museum.

The newsletter is available only to members of the ‘friends’ of the museum I’m afraid. If you would like to join, it costs £10 for a years membership, which gets you four issues of ‘Friends of The few’, plus it entitles you to free entry to the museum. Also at the moment, we are offering the latest Geoff Nutkins print (Geoff is also our curator, who you spoke to Sunday) ‘The Castle Farm Dornier’ at £29 to members, as opposed to the normal price of £57.50p. So you can join the ‘Friends’, buy the print, and still save yourself £18.50p!

To join, send your name, address, and e-mail address to- The Shoreham Aircraft Museum, High Street, Shoreham Village, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 7TB, enclosing a cheque for £10 payable to ‘The Shoreham Aircraft Museum’, or else pop into the museum again.

regards

Geoff

Mark2,

I suggest that you contact the MoD, through their website, to see if they know about this at http://www.mod.uk, and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at http://www.cwgc.org See if they can tell you if the British authorities in Malasia have been informed.

If you are willing to handle this, let us know here, and keep us informed of any response/progress so we can see how things are going. What we need to avoid are too many people bombarding the MoD & CWGC with info on this.

Mark12,

Any chance of posting a photo of Tadeusz on here, as a memorial?

Geoff.

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