Always seemed to me there are three categories

The retired aircraft that continues to be kept, the aircraft maybe damaged or stripped and needs to be rebuilt and the replica.

I have a 1952 aircraft that was written off in 1954 and rebuilt by the factory. That alone would make it fit the first two of your categories, wouldn’t it?

Another glider then 😉

Was that the cumulative total for thirty flights!

Nope, just one flight, under a developing shower, in a T-shirt. Brrrrrr. The aircraft has about 11 hours since new (1952), the logbook was kept in seconds up to when we purchased it…

Hold on, isn’t it a Schleicher Ka-4?

That is the one: a Schleicher Ka.4 Rhönlerche II, affectionally known as the Rhönstein (Rhönstone) due to its glide angle.

A humble glider this time…

A quick trawl (no pun intended) of submariners forums seems to unearth a mountain of data why K.XVII (the sub in question) sank, and where.

http://www.dutchfleet.net/viewtopic.php?t=1550

It may have spotted the Japanese fleet, but it certainly sank just because it hit a Japanese mine… Remember: these were very treachorous waters then…

Probably 16-7-1941, a low-flying attack on the ships in Rotterdam harbour (http://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/bulletin-304-de-aanval-op-rotterdam-16-juni-1941/)

One thing which has changed is that the little fairing “ears” on the canopy in the first picture seem to have disappeared. I must work out what’s happened there, and whether they need to be rebuilt.

Dave

Not only that. The entire canopy appears to be different. Not just the glazing (I seem to miss the starboard window), but also the frame. Compare the high wooden lower sides of the original with the thin new one, as well as the screws in the front, the painted edges, etc. I would say that’s a completely different canopy?