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Hi
Always encourage an effort.:D
But it needs a lot of checking up on the details listed,
i.e
the Typhoon is a post war sea vixen.
Cheers
Jerry
i meant on crash sites!!
Hi
best place to start police war diaries, used to be in the truro record office.
cheers
Jerry
lake / reservoir
Hi,
AR-196, reminds me ……. did they ever get around to recovering the six (?) that were in that lake / reservoir in russia. ( on various boards about 4-5 years ago )
I seem to remember the a/c were sunk to avoid capture, but the recoveries were held up, something to do with the lake being the fresh water supply to the local city ?
Cheers
Jerry
Hi All,
Back on a rare visit to the board,
Interesting another whirlwind replica,
Some one once said there have been more project whirlwinds than the RAF had real aircraft….. π
Maybe not quite true π
Searching old threads will reveal all the possible options, and the photo of the yeovil whirlwind before burial shows it in fairly good shape.
I often wonder why people don’t just build a static replica, it’s a more realisticaly achieveable, and overcomes the engineering difficulties, and they look quite good.
There are many other replicas around try a google search
Hope everyone had a good christmas
And a happy new year to all ..
Off to hibernate again for a while. π
Cheers
Jerry
Hi Jerry
Thank you for the response. You have given me a couple of leads I did not know about.
Regarding your couple of questions, I was told 1942 but it would make sense to check 1941.
Can you please check your files for names of the survivors ? Was there a Willy Hoffman among them ?
Cheers
TheFlyingPhysio
Hi
Got your a/c
25 june 1941 03.30hrs , III/KG26, HE-IIIH-5, Wn3878,
1H+BD.
Gefr Willi Hoffman pow
Uffz Georg Lohmann K
Gefr Freidrich Brunnecker K
Ogefr Leo Pfop K
A/A fire off coverack in falmouth Bay
Ex DARRT Member, ( now in Canada ):D
so you needn’t contact them.
as they probably won’t have any more info than me.:D
Cheers
Jerry
pm
Hi
PM sent
cheers
Jerry
I hope this is the right forum and if so can anyone help please ?
Trying to locate information on a HE-111 which came down over Falmouth 24/25 June 1942. There was at least one survivor.
Any information or suggestions as to where to seek information appreciated.
Hi
I checked my files and I have nothing for this date,
307Sq got some dornier 217’s, but these were a few day later.
Is there anything in the police war diaries at the cornish record office, to give you a lead?
Try a post here and if possible give the survivors name.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/forumdisplay.php?f=8
If you don’t get an answer there you are in for ‘a long job’
just an thought, do you have the right year/ or a typo ?
I have in my files , a HE-III , 25th June 1941, 03:30 hrs off Falmouth, three killed, one POW, by A/A fire
Cheers
Jerry
The whole mentality behind the reasoning for the Arrows not to appear is so STUPID. We must be the only country in the World where we consider it bad to be PROUD to be a citizen of that country. Can you imagine, for instance – the Americans being told not to fly the Stars & Stripes at their events cos it might upset other countries/cultures? They’d be laughed off the face of the Earth. How infantile this all is.
If I’m not as proud to be British as I used to be – it’s because we have idiots like the one’s spouting this rubbish up there in our government…:mad:
Hi
I always found that strange when we were in england.
We emigrated to vancouver about a year ago, and meet many people walking around with CANADA in big letters on their clothing, canadian flags fly everywhere.
Cars here have little canadian flags on the aerials,
and apparently there is a law …
you can fly any flag as much as you want as long as it is …..
a canadian national flag π
or your province flag, π
any others and you have to apply for permision first.:)
seems the opposite of the UK from what we remember.
cheers
Jerry
RAFM has three Rollls-Royce Vulture’s, two came as a pair in 1978, with a third from the Danish Air Force in 1988. All three are ex crash sites and so their condition is less less than “factory finish”!
Hi
so if broken apart they could build a peregrine or two π
cheers
jerry
kits
Hi All,
Sadly I have almost as many plastic kits as the RAF had real whirlwinds
at least one of every type/scale manufactured.
except for :-
the RCM one above
an ‘SK’ ? kit ( box cover shows HE-V)
and an italian cereal manufacturer issue.
my personal like is the cooper kit, but the ID models is nice, as is the second airfix.
I Just fancied a nice diecast that would survive the kids/dog/cat and the mrs dusting..:D
cheers
Jerry
“P-38 found on beach – Wales”
That’s nothing, I found a complete Stirling in my back garden – just before I woke up this morning.
Hi
Thats nothing….:D
The four of us were awake, when we found the almost complete one buried on dartmoor.
still there, but I’m not anymore..
cheers
Jerry
I reckon a Corgi die-cast of a Beaufighter would outsell a Whirlwind by a very large ratio, can’t imagine why they haven’t already made one…….
Hi
quite possibly, maybe even a beaufort if they did one.
time for some new subjects by corgi etc ?
this is on the antics link
http://www.aircraftmodels.co.uk/682_1_2625694.html
404Sq maybe even when they were at davidstow moor, must check the serial.
cheers
Jerry
model
Hi All,
thanks for the replies,
So it’s two options.
petition corgi / bombard corgi with e mails
or use the airfix as a mould and find all this gold in canada, and burn a
few fingers…
looks like it’s only this for my santa list this year ?
http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=4887&searchtext=whirlwind
cheers
Jerry
Did I hear some forumites ears prick-up just then?
Two Rolls-Royce Peregrine enginesβ¦now…erβ¦what was that funny twin-engined fighter that was fitted with those things called? π
Hi
didn’t it end in ……wind ?? π π
not that I would know, π π
just wish I new where the boat was… if it still exists…
or the nearby scrapyards ……
cheers
Jerry
Hi Jerry,
………………. The two Merlin engines were sold to a guy in Miami for his speedboat. It is posible they are still being used today.
Alex
Hi alex,
There was a speedboat fitted with two R-R peregrine engines in the USA in late ’44/early 45.
Thats two boats that would be interesting if they are still around.
Cheers
jerry