Thanks Mathieu

skua in the air
by morten moe Today at 21:34

The blackburn skua is now hanging with its wingtips just above the water. Tail section is hanging at an angle. The structure appears to be very frail, and divers are securing parts thats hanging from the plane. colour on roundels still surprisingly bright.

It still has to be lifted an additonal 4-5 metes to get the plane onto the barge. Fingers crossed, all of u!

Morten Moe

Regards,

Mathieu.

Hi Ian

Thanks very much for the note – pm sent 😉

It may well be Peter – there are a huge variety of radiators and oil coolers. Yours should have a manufacturers plate on it. It looks like a Serck product to me, an similar although not the same as the Whitley oil cooler.

As others have said, dimensions and dates would be great.

I also ordered the book Cees – got it today – it’s excellent. Looking at the photos they made a good start on rebuilding the centre section and undercarriage parts – they look very good. I wonder what happened…

Well, I received the (pocket)book yesterday evening and have thumbed through it. A very interesting story and the pics in it are great. Pity it didn’t went as the team planned. ALso very strange that the onlookers reacted so strongly at the time and the team had difficulty to keep the crowd away from the wreck.

To read that at night one could hear the rivets popping through the saltwater action was also interesting.

Cheers

Cees