Why would there be lots of firewalls in particular – or were they just part of a cache of general parts?
I would guess probably that once all of the easy to remove aluminium was taken from the Typhoon, leaving a time consuming to dissassemble mixed steel centre section, it was easier to bury or leave these for another day?
I met Ron Murphy in the early 2000’s as he had some Hornet parts for me. Ron was a key person behind this recovery of all of these Typhoon parts, and we talked about this over the day. As I recall, the majority of the remains centred around quite a few engine firewall assemblies, and to a greater/lesser extent on each, surounding tubular metal work that included a lot of the items mentioned earlier in this thread.
A few of these have been restored/rebuilt into cockpits now on public display:
– Roger Marley’s fuselage was built up from the best of the remains.
– The Shoreham by the sea museum of D-Day aviation made a cockpit (now in France?).
– Another is/was stored with the museum at Coventry.
– The Gloucester Aviation Museum had another.
– Mark Evans has another.
– One in Canada.
– One in Yorkshire.
There are others.
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