Highlights:
– No additional human remains found (all crew were already accounted for on site).
– Some light explosives (ammo) found and disarmed.
– Small parts only found, some light structure, data plates, etc (most of it recovered by German forces in the war and by scrap dealers)
– Ceremony held on site
– Site now declared clean
I remember them doing this to the Pink Floyd song. Great display. By heart I would think this was the same team, but would have to dig out the negatives to be sure…
One more clue then (awfully quiet here on Christmas eve…): our mystery plane was built by the same manufacturer as its rather well-known three-tailed brother.
Not a Maule Rocket, but you have the correct country. Just like the Maule, it is used for glider towing. We got this particular one after it flew through telephone wires and hit the ground going backwards. Took quite a lot of work to get it in the air again…
The glider which features in the 1999 remake is a DuoDiscus flown by Tom Knauff…and believe me it’s not possible to lean over from the back seat to the controls in the front in the real thing!
Not only that. The canopy hinges to the wrong side… Ah, the artistic liberties of cinema…
I believe it was the demo model in the US. Not many of them around there at the time…
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