….is over the top ….

hi tom i had already agreed to this in my above reply.

…

‘As such your international e-mail campaign would likely reinforce the need to preserve our heritage/history rather than achieve your goal’.

my thoughts also …. please e mail anyway ….

cheers
jerry

hi
geographically that is probably like saying there is a spitfire in the UK, one in germany and one in greece.
Canada is the second largest country in the world, the size/distances did not become apparent to me until I came here.
The basics to me is Canadians had the forethought to not scrap some aircraft.
We in the uk scrapped ours, hence we search for wrecks, a little fore thougth by uk ploiticians etc,and the uk aviation scene would have been very different, and from what i read the uk still does the same thing.
cheers
jerry

Hi
hence i used word probably, if i had been using a cheap shot i would probably have used ‘historically/statistically’

my personal view on any aircraft is replicas should fly,originals should be in museums
cheers
jerry

Hi
first thoughts…. sandblasting during the restoration ?
cheers
Jerry

Hi
Well the old grey cells kept bugging me and I found this, but i am sure somewhere at pro this was in a file.
cheers
Jerry

quote

CE+IB, Fw-200C-4/u-1

‘the seat contained a parachute and on the right hand side below the window was a red lever,secured by a red seal,to an open escape hatch in the floor”

from book hitler squadron

http://books.google.ca/books?id=eUgibPp3dwkC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=escape+hatch+in+himmler+condor&source=bl&ots=UzDJfYBmil&sig=upmu_LkHTzAFqcU2J3NPHlXQNLU&hl=en&ei=JzouTazhG4_6sAPu8KCyBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=escape%20hatch%20in%20himmler%20condor&f=false

getting o/t
but came across this

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=237

A recent email alerted us to a little known fact that Britain acquired a sole Fw 200 Condor and nearly used it in action. The email – which we’ll keep anonymous – reads as follows:

Gentlemen,

In passing, the UK immediately prior to WW2, had acquired a single FW 200 by ‘back door’ methods (dont ask!). One operation was planned using it, to land Commandos at Merignac airfield in occupied France, and destroy those identical German [aircraft] on the ground. The planning group did their planning work ‘down the tunnel’ at Maidstone in Kent. The plan involved a German Condor outbound from Norway being shot down by a flight of Spitfires specially based in the extreme north of the Shetland Islands, at an airstrip called Baltasound.

The plan was aborted when near to ‘go ahead’, as the recovery of the Commandos at the end of the [operation] was seen as far too problematical.

Authority: My Father, an R.A.F. S/Ldr., who was on the planning team

Hi peter,
Glad to be of help,and nice to have the data confirmed as similiar as in the book.
Yeah dates and camo/markings are sometimes confusing.
I must remember in 2011 to visit LEMB more often..
cheers
Jerry

Hi Peter,
As both your aircraft have UK crash locations, i suggest for consideration the following aircraft :-

42-74737 P-47D-6-RE 359th 370th CR-P pilot Paul H. Bateman, Then lost as
CS-P, MACR 3733, 11/04/44 force landed near Macou, Pilot Thomas ‘Pepe’ Smith – POW – ran out of fuel after flak damage, Smith evaded capture for five months.

It was a razorback like the p-47 in the e bay photos, and the circumstances of the loss fit in well, apart from the date and caption.
Of interest the unit code was CR until march 44 when it changed to CS.
cheers
Jerry