Any part numbers/inspection stamps visible ??

There are no numbers on it at all that I can see and I have gone over it with a loup.

;o)

But the serious domestic dispute sound alike…?
If it wasn’t you then someone…lied to the police. You could get shot for less than that in some countries.

Hi,

Thanks for all your replies. As far as I know the Chipmunk was recovered by a Belvedere so it may have been repaired and put back into service.

Alex

That would mean it was (mainly) one lump without bits hanging off; probably ripe for a rebuild rather than scrap.
I suppose there is no listing for damage rather than write offs?

Which might mean that you find the BBC to have a more left wing bias than that poles average…?;o)

Hopefully one day with the aid of the ever improving technology and a brave recovery team of divers etc.
that this could be achieved…. Sooner rather than later…..

Except for the apparently forgotten but very important fact that since the majority of the aircrew involved in this tragic exercise died these wrecks would rightly be regarded as war graves.
I am sure more knowing forum members than I can put you right on whether a war grave can knowingly be recovered, improved technology or not.

Is there a need for a Ju88?
The Dornier was a Phoenix, risen again from its ashes, but whilst we are not exactly swimming in Junkers neither are they as rare as once they were. Whilst there might be enthusiastic sponsors or lottery backing (if they still have money after raising the cost of a ticket) for retrieving something from extinction, there will be little interest from the financiers for something they can already see a version of at Hendon. Therefore you are looking for a philanthropic multimillionaire willing to raise and conserve it, and there will be precious few of those about.

I cannot comment on the claims you make for how Sky operates as they appear to be hearsay but I do not discern the right wing bias you assert.

Indeed it is not my experience, but that of a relative who slowly eased a story from a source for her copy. You don’t complain too much if you want to move upwards from a weekly news sheet to the heady heights of what used to be Fleet Street.
And a bias is subjective – when I were a lad a friends dad insisted that The Sun was a working class newspaper for the working man (both true, subjectively) and therefore backed Labour. Even when it backed Thatcher, published the infamous last one leaving turn out the lights headline, and bad mouthed the unions during the miners strike he still believed, then he had a heart attack (unrelated) and the paper never entered the house again.
Sky News bias – look at the studio guests: although not as bad as Fox News see if you can notice the carefully guided questions designed to take the programme in the direction that the company wants it to.

A survey from 2010:

Nearly two-thirds of respondents (64 per cent) said Sky News displays a clear pro-Conservative bias in its reporting. In total, 34.5 per cent of respondents said Sky News displays a “strong Conservative” bias, while 29.3 said the channel shows “some Conservative” bias. One per cent of respondents thought Sky News displays a pro-Liberal Democrat bias, there was zero suggestion of any support for Labour and only 9.1 per cent of respondents said Sky News shows no overall bias.
http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/2010/04/uk-media-bias-bbc-channel-4-sky-itv-politics-brown-cameron-clegg-230270410.html