Is this the only place that enthusiasts can exercise their imagination? TFC becoming extinct with one sale? I vaguely remember the self same people were debating TFC recruiting new engineers in a previous post. From where I sit there is more work than we can shake a stick at, three active restorations, four waiting in the wings and that does not include the Beau. Shiny stuff coming to Legends, what else do you want?

The Essex Aviation Group visited this aircraft some years back and have it on their CD, “Aviation Incidents in the Eastern Counties”, Issue Mk. VIa.

Ju 88A-4, B3+JP, J in black outlined in yellow. Black undersurfaces with grey wavy lines. Only the bodies of Oblt. Simm and Uffz. Gerhard Daunt were recovered at the time.

They are currently putting together a second volume covering Norfolk and Suffolk. Whilst the text is pretty much complete we would like to give it a boost with more photographs. The Essex list runs from the dawn of aviation in Essex through the war years and we will do the same with Norfolk and Suffolk.

EAG are still in being after 40 years, our display is a little smaller but perfectly formed, to be found at DUX opposite the Duxford History Display.

Spitfire F.XII Griffon IIB or III Rotol R13/4F5/5 & 6, four blades, Dia. 10′ 5″.

Nice wings, they seem to have a few additional ribs inboard of the aileron..obviously the company that likes to give you ‘extra’. Still as they say, has been signed off by the CAA, so must be OK I guess!

Interesting as they say they have M3 and M5 Approval but no mention of E4 or similar which is required for Restorations.

Now if some forward thinking Brats had “spirited away” those “changed engines and props” they would be in a very good bargaining position right now! Instead they probably put more effort in towing Sea Hawks or Provosts to Wendover in the middle of the night…

More likely to have been Spitfires, look in the background.