It’s a political term! 🙂

I watched the making of the Ridley Scott movie Alien this evening. He mentioned that when they built the set for the Nostromo they used a lot of old aircraft parts – apparently they went to a scrapyard (this would have been around 1978 I expect) and found some canberras (not surprising) but then he went on to mention Wellingtons and Spitfires! Wonder if any wartime parts ended up in that film…

Scrapped, I suspect.

In the early 60’s people were still scrapping Spits and Lancaster, and wrecking Mosquitos in movies as late as 1964 😡

Surely if the corrosion started out on the surface and ends up being covered then it is now deeper? Tony’s only offering advice – no need to be so hawkish Stuart.

Having read through the document thoughtfully provided by TonyT, (circa 1984), it says initially that blasting is the best method of removing corrosion, reducing the time per fastener from hours to minutes, but that the Americans had discovered that using a course abrasive, “peening over” of the metal could occur, trapping corrosion underneath, this was avoided by using softer compounds in the blasting process,(although extending the time taken per fastener); it at no time states that corrosion can be driven deeper into the metal, by this process.

Great story!

Fascinating picture!

Not too far away, however, the crew of a Me 110 downed on 4 September legged it towards the nearby gleam of the Channel dragging their inflated rubber dinghy. I interviewed the pilot, called Munich at his Munich home (Munchen in German, of course!) in 1977 and enjoyed some very fine wines from his cellar. The tale he told was all the better as the wine flowed; eventually, a call of “HALT!”, then a shot rang out and the two airman were left holding a hissing sheet of yellow rubber!

I am pretty sure the He 111 crew were apprehended at the aircraft and, I believe, taken to the Sussex flint barn in the background.

Can’t help ID it i’m afraid but the number looks like late war. I’m sure someone can help. Where’s Anne?

Steve

The pilfering from this site is fairly well known and has been by collectors. Regarding the willingness to manhandle large items – you’d be surprised – Merlin engines have been removed from hilltops by sheer manpower alone in the past.

As for the suggestion that Gary’s post is advertising the site to further public intereference, that is closing the door after the horse has bolted, and besides the RAF have just removed everything they could anyway.

This is just scaremongering claptrap. The site is on a hillside miles away from a public road. It is too remote and uninteresting to be visited by anyone other than estate workers or aviation scrap dealers. I suspect that the limited pilfering that has happened here has been done by estate employees who are housed near it during the stalking season. Do you, the guys from Waddingto or the estate owner really believe that anyone is capable of manhandling a Lancaster mainwheel – complete with smooth tyre – the six miles or so to the nearest road without the assistance of the estate?

Do you trade in aviation wreckage by any chance, and why did you name this particular site? It seems to me that naming this source for Lancaster parts on a public forum is not exactly the smartest thing to do if you are concerned with the well-being of this crash site. I just get the feeling that you are more concerned with selling parts than preserving the sites.

Best wishes
Steve P

I think they have to remake a lot of them anyway, so shouldn’t cause any problems seafuryfan. Just a case of people willing to part with the cash 🙂

I suppose a Hurricane repro will be out due to the cost of making all those complicated tubes and their joints, amoung others? Or could HRL do it, given the money? Hmmmm…What a thought!