Now THAT’S a stuka!

Do any of our Greek friends know what the plan is for her immediate conservation?

Wow thanks for that.Looking forward to the paint job she has after she has been given a wash down.

I would have to go along with you there Mark.

One word…. Gutted

Value.

It depends who you are, where you are and what your aspirations for the B-17 are.

To a scrap dealer it will be ‘X’, to a local PNG museum it will be ‘Y’. What you can guarantee is that to a US party that wants to get it back in the air, their accountant will, if experienced in these fields, value it as a minus number, ‘-Z’, because after all the money has been totted up and spent, the selling price of the aircraft when initially flying again is unlikely to exceed the factored spend over say five years at commercial labour rates.

A dealer however could put a different value on it. Establish what the market selling price is for the recovered ‘as is’ airframe sitting on the docks at Galveston, Texas, clear of customs and all charges. Factor in a profit, factor in a risk element, add to these two figures all the spend to get it to Galveston and compare with the landed selling price…and there is the value.

In this latter case I would estimate it at about £2,500 on the right side. 😉 🙂

Mark

No ill feelings from the owners Peter. They were both agreeable with what happened to it and it all worked out well in the end. It’s unfortunate that other people kept trying to stick their oar in.

Nice to hear it has gone to a good home.

Do a search on this forum for Bernie salter cockpit
Lots of politics and ill feellings about the fate of that cockpit.

Tom

I sent you a PM. I will be happy to look into it for you.

Cheers

Mr Tweed,
Yes our old boy the rear gunner was reticent about doing a talk on his experiences at the club, he’s a very modest gentleman with the accent on gentleman!
I managed to get hold of his flight log book and photocopied it on to overhead projector slides, the log book showed his first flight through to his last and when I asked him questions about the slides that I put up at the club the information he could recall was amazing, an hour and a half flew by that evening.
Just the other week I mentioned the fact a German aircrew shot down in 1945 were buried in Scampton churchyard, he asked me to check up to see if it was in March of that year. Lo and behold it was….. my friend told me he and the crew had to put down at Waddington instead of their own base because intruders had followed them back from the raid over Germany. The landing lights were only kept on for a short while as soon as their wheels hit the runway they were extinguished.
That was not the end of it they had to remain in their aircraft with an engine running
so that the Lancaster aircraft guns could complement the bases own anti-aircraft protection.
He remembers seeing streams of tracer from one of the other bases in the area and an aircraft being hit and wondered if this was the crew of the german aircraft that now lie in Scampton cemetery.
I had photographed these german gravestones and the dates matched up perfectly.

I think he is 83 years old now but he is as active as a man 20 years younger, I feel honoured to know this gentleman and to count him as a friend.
Regards
Tom