Hi
A real nice guy,and real helpful.
I talked/corresponded with him at one time about the whirlwind fighter he flew in the USA in 1944.
cheers
Jerry

Hi
Thanks for the info,At least the crashes didn’t write off the airframes.
The blenheim Mk I should look great, presumably easier to fly with a shorter nose ?
Hopefully it will be third time lucky for a blenheim restoration, and it has a long life.
Cheers
Jerry

HI
This is just a guess but the bottom one looks like it says
S Ward W/C ?
Cheers
Jerry

Hi
I am curious, was there two airfields where the typhoons were found or did the airfield have two names ?
I don’t remember the name Versailles-Buc, is this the airfield where the bombed b-17’s were also found in sept ’44 ?
From memory I thought the airfield was called chateaufort.:confused:
It could be interesting if there was more than one airfield with allied parts.
cheers
Jerry

Hi
For a quick poll i just showed the video to wifey,as she can identy a lancaster from a spitfire..

what type of aircraft ?

… A Whirlwind..

… The logic ‘it is skinny and has two engines.’..

So I think as per my comment above, to the masses it will be a mosquito, and the project team have acheived their goals.

cheers
Jerry

Hi
To correct myself ( I quoted wrong location ) and to quote the typhoon expert/guru
cheers
Jerry

full thread

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=9704

extract pg3 of thread

Chris Thomas 9th August 2007, 17:04

Feldwebel Gold was killed flying Typhoon JP548 which had force-landed south-east of Marigny, west of St-Lo on the Cherbourg peninsula, on 14 February 1944; the pilot, Flg Off B.F.Proddow evaded capture.

Does this make me a ‘nutter’? I hope not. My dad is bigger than yours.
CT

Hi
Going by the back of the photos, which state Paris 1944, it is most likely
JP548, 174 SQ, captured after crash landing at Marigny ( south of Paris ) on February 14 1944, so it fits in really well with the sequence of the two photos.
I personally very much doubt it is EJ956, from what I have read on the web over the years, it was at rechlin in sep 43, so why fly it almost 6 months later to Paris in RAF markings ? way to risky in feb ’44
I am suprised it did not go for more money,I would hate to think how much a whirlwind in captured markings photo would go for, the last crash photo went for a sizeable sum I recall.
If my guess at the buyer is right, it is in good hands,along with some other photos of the captured typhoons.
cheers
Jerry

Not sure if this has been seen before but right at the end of this news clip for the whirlwind there is a view of G-AGOI at westlands being broken up…about 1min in a 1.02 second video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idJ3tF00Og

Hi
yes a good picture, not all that well publicised, apparently I was told that this was taken very soon before it was buried,the engines had been removed for the helicopter test rig.
What a basis for a static rebuild this would have been if it had survived.
cheers
jerry