Very nice Cees – It really looks fantastic. I promise I will upload the remaining half of the IWM photos as soon as I can but it’s a bit tricky at the mo.

Well done!

Hi Andy – I can’t help with the B17 – I’m sure someone on wiz could help however.

On the same track though, can you confirm that it was a bit of whitley wing that ended up on the beach a Hastings in the last year of so? No one there I have spoken too can confirm it and none of the fishermen are owning up to it either! I’ve been told I’m mixing it up with the B17 wspar section that was dredged up about 10 years ago but I don’t think so…

Thanks for any help you can give.

Elliott

Difficult Drafko – the only way I know of getting an ID is to look through the crash cards and pick out the engine serial and you should get your aircraft – that is assuming the aircraft crashed and the plates didn’t originate from a scrapyard. Unfortunately as its not clear which aircraft it came from there is no easy way of doing it – its probably not feasible to go through every card.

Other people on here have much better knowledge on this than I, I would expect.

I have a Merlin X from a Whitley which was trawled up from the seabed off Scarborough. I have the plates and have similar info to you (also from RRHT) – my engine has an early prop and was I think dispatched from RR in 1941 so that narrows down the search a lot – even then I still haven’t had time to check!

So it looks like Pegasus then? Anyone out there know if there were any changes with reduction gears in different marks of engine? Surely that would help narrow down the aircraft.